signed, dated and inscribed on the branch (lower left) and further signed, dated and inscribed (on the reverse):
"This barn owl lives and hunts around Pen, and I sometimes see it at dusk, with an occasional silhouette or screech at night. On 4 September I was sitting up in bed at dawn with the lights off, watching light draw across the landscape, and it flew past the window. I leapt out of bed and searched the landscape to no avail, when suddenly it flew past me within an arms reach and landed in the large fir tree (which was our tiny Christmas tree in 1989). I watched it for twenty seconds or so, before it took off and disappeared, leaving behind the inspiration for this triptych.
The leaves and branches depicted are from oak trees I took from the Rheidol valley to draw, before using them as firewood.
The triptych is a copy of an early 16th century frame I commissioned, to accommodate the largest sized panel I could fire in my kiln, Odyn."
underglaze pencils on glazed earthenware
22 x 32 ¼ in. (56 x 82 cm.)
Presented in a handmade and specially commissioned frame (for the panel's to fit the kiln), based on a circa 1530 Flemish triptych.