Between Worlds Dark & Stormy The Rooswijk was a vessel

The Rooswijk was a vessel built in Amsterdam in 1737 but became stranded on the Goodwin Sands two years later while enroute to the East Indies

including 350 carriage guns

Part of a series of ‘devotional object' sculptures

Oil on canvas

a historical region in the Guyanas

Between Worlds Dark & Stormy The Rooswijk was a vesselBreccia Violetta Marble 62 x 17 x 17cm Part of a series of devotional object' sculptures, this slender form with its stylistic lines is derived from the common hand gesture of crossing ones fingers to wish for luck. The intersection is thought to mark the concentration of good spirits and served to anchor the wish until it could come true