'King' of the Castle Still Lifes Even without a comical figure

Even without a comical figure to point us to a punchline this little study of industrial buildings still manages to exude his humour

they cannot be shipped and must be collected from the gallery before the end of Sam Toft's exhibition Keep on Keeping on - Friday 3rd December

barely a decade later the shipping containers and coastal deep-water ports had finished off the Thames’ trade and with it the viability of the Docks and Wharves along that bank

mostly selling for a few hundred here and there and I feel a certain poignancy that she is now remembered for these ordinary little pot boilers rather than the early oils that augured such a dazzling future

'King' of the Castle Still Lifes Even without a comical figureMedium Details: Oil pastel, ink, graphite, sgraffito on acid free board 'King' is the name of the Chihuahua.