An airship for Baron M

Mounted pin-brooch, 2007 aterials: 20ct gold, 18th century Delft glass bead, 18ct white gold pin

height (without pin): 48mm width: 27mm ount: mixed media Signed and dated artist’s no: 419.MP-B.07 hidden alche y: 216

It may have been the presence in my childhood home of square-rigged galleon and ship models, forbidden to my young touch, which made me want constantly to draw them, and to devise variant forms in which they also became ground-, or water-, to-air ships. This particular craft, with its light cargo of early memories, drifted into existence from the arrival on my horizon of this 18th century Delft glass bead, plump with the Dutch (and French) maritime colours, and begging to set sail once again.