'Middleton Pink #245', which which I've reprised a piece you may have seen before in both 'Mouse's Back # 40' and 'Arsenic # 214'. I should explain, really, particularly for those overseas who would (quite reasonably) fail to appreciate the significance of Farrow & Ball paint.
Farrow & Ball manufacture household paint which somehow has become synonymous with the upper and upper middle classes of England. Personally I feel that we have a sort of Farrow & Ball government, a government of surface appearance. There's all kinds of unpleasantness (damp? dry-rot? mould? evil?) underneath the faux-nostalgic, futility-heritage, 'conservative' façade. But then, we don't really have a government – we have a gang of robber-barons determined to fleece the place for whatever they can get, utilising a sort of cultural and economic scorched-earth policy. The gap between rich and poor grows wider every day. Hey, though; never mind, eh? House prices have never been higher.
Farrow & Ball colours are 'classic', 'elegant', 'timeless' and, to my mind, subtly reinforce the notion that 'things are as they should be'. These are the colours of an Enid Blyton, Ladybird book version of a 1950s England that never existed but serves as a useful psychic shorthand for the sort of people I have very little time for. This, I should say, is not the fault of the paint manufacturers, who have been around since the 1930s, and whose products are used for all kinds of historic restorations. It is, of course, entirely inappropriate that I should use their paint to create such dreadful things as this:
Edition of 50 prints
2 colour screenprint
Paper size: 440mm x 340mm
Image size: 490mm x 375mm
Printed on acid-free archival 300gsm Somerset Satin
£50.00
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