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Lot Essay
Discussing Blake's work in Ark 18, 1956, Roger Coleman commented:
'Very often Blake's pictures are littered with the small objects of our urban civilisation, the things that pass through our hands a dozen times daily, the cigarette packet, the detergent box, sweet wrappings, match-boxes, bus tickets, and so on; the world of the throw-away object. Blake transforms these things into images of the most compelling sort so that we look at them a little harder next time just to see they are as real as he makes them'.
(see Bristol City Art Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, 1969, p.7).
'Very often Blake's pictures are littered with the small objects of our urban civilisation, the things that pass through our hands a dozen times daily, the cigarette packet, the detergent box, sweet wrappings, match-boxes, bus tickets, and so on; the world of the throw-away object. Blake transforms these things into images of the most compelling sort so that we look at them a little harder next time just to see they are as real as he makes them'.
(see Bristol City Art Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, 1969, p.7).