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      <image:title>About Bruce - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>This major painting ‘The Elephant and The Mermaid’ having been damaged by climate and insects, has been restored, reclaimed, and transformed by Bruce several times. Currently on show again at The Gallery of Tropical Surrealism, Bali.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>About Bruce - Bruce Sherratt was born in the north of England on the bleak boarder of North Staffordshire and Derbyshire. Bruce’s teachers noticed his ability to translate his inner visions into visual images on paper at an early age. At 15 he found himself the star student at one of the local art schools engaged in a three-year foundation course before heading off to a London art college where he earned a degree in painting and drawing. “I grew up on a diet of Western movies. As a kid my imagination was ablaze with desert landscapes, dust blown cacti, horse skulls bleached white in the scorching sun, and monolithic rock formations looming up like surreal cathedrals”.</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Work</image:title>
      <image:caption>Title: 'The Sacrament', 2017 Media: Pigment, cloth and oil paint on canvas Size 300 x 200 cm Location: Bruce Sherratt Gallery, Bali</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Title: 'Self Portrait'. 2017 Medium: Pigment on canvas Size: 100 x 120 cm Location: Bruce Sherratt Gallery, Bali</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Title: ''Watching Their Kingdom Come', 2017 Media: Pigment on canvas Size: 70 x 90 cm Location: Bruce Sherratt Gallery, Bali</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>'Ouroboros The King', 2017 Medium: Pigment on canvas Size: 100 x 120 cm Location: Bruce Sherratt Gallery, Bali</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Title: 'Handing The Bubble To You', 2017 Medium: Pigment on canvas Size: 100 x 120 cm Location: Bruce Sherratt Gallery, Bali</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Title: 'Ouroboros' 2017 Media: Pigment on canvas Size: 200 x 154 cm Location: Bruce Sherratt Gallery, Bali</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Title: 'Spirits Of The Forest', 2017 Medium: Pigment on canvas Size: 130 x 100 cm Location: Bruce Sherratt Gallery, Bali</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Myth and Magic - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>'Ouroboros The King', 1998 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 100 x 120 cm Location: Gallery Of Tropical Surrealism , Ubud-Bali, Indonesia. Ouroboros is the snake that eats its own tail. The image appears in numerous cultures throughout history and the world, signifying the eternal life force that is both creative and destructive. Here this great mythic figure is the crowned ruler of his immediate environment. To dream or hallucinate this image may signify an unconscious or subconscious need or wish to transform the self. The image may resonate in a viewer’s mind or soul, indicating that he she may need or desire to undergo some kind of mental/spiritual regeneration. As such the picture acts as a metaphor for the process of psychoanalysis itself. Certainly the image serves for me to express various deep sensibilities and emotions that have long been alive within my own psyche throughout my life. Pure liquid pigments allow me to achieve the power, density and variety of shades needed to encapsulate this kind of universal symbol with the cogency and beauty it seems to demand. As do the sharp, biting black lines.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>'Poseidon Calling The Ocean' 2010 Media: Oil paint on canvas Size: 200 x 120 cm Location: Gallery of Tropical Surrealism, Bali</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Myth and Magic</image:title>
      <image:caption>'Myth Of The Elephant And The Blind Twin-Tailed Mermaid', 2010-2023 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 250 x 150 cm Location: Gallery Of Tropical Surrealism, Ubud-Bali, Indonesia. The ‘Myth of The Elephant and The Blind, Twin-Tailed Mermaid’ is primarily about the male-female dynamic. As such, like all myths, it transcends specific national or cultural limits. Metaphor and meaning are interlaced with contradictions and dualities. The elephant and mermaid appear simultaneously as sculptures: damaged inanimate objects yet also living beings whose injuries echo the human capacity to survive and continue living, loving, emerging, breathing and transforming. A mermaid's natural habitat is the ocean yet the elephant-magician inspires her to rise from the sea and join him and in a moment of sublime elation and magic she grows an additional tail and acquires the ability to hover and float over the earth. Choosing the high desert among mountains close to the pure clear sky as their abode the elephant and mermaid become partners for all eternity. The painting was badly damaged by white ants and the damp tropical humid climate while stored for several years at my studio-gallery in Bali and had to be cut down in scale and re-stretched. The process of reworking itself was experienced by me as a kind of regeneration or rebirth of the picture which led to a strengthening and transformation of the formal elements - e.g., colors, tones, space, forms, shapes, lines, textures and a deepening and extension of content, meaning and expression.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>'Among The Elephants' 2009 Medium: oil paint on canvas Size: 200 x 160 cm Location: Private Collection, Australia.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>'Myth of the Floating Anima', 2012 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 150 x 250 cm Location: Gallery of Tropical Surrealism, Bali</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Title: 'Ganesha With Flailing Ears' 2017 Medium: Oil paint on canvas Size: 200 x 120 cm Location: Gallery of Tropical Surrealism, Bali</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Title: 'Androgynous Gemini' 2014 Medium: Oil paint on canvas Size: 228 x 98 cm Location: Gallery of Tropical Surrealism, Bali</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>'The Swan Song', 2005 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 200 x 150 cm Location: Gallery Of Tropical Surrealism, Ubud-Bali, Indonesia. In European classical mythology swans are mute and sing only when dying, at which point they are reputed to sing beautifully – hence the phrase SWAN SONG. Swans are said to love so deeply they mate for life and are monogamous. In mythology the mute swan is one of the sacred birds of Apollo and a symbol of light. Like so much of my work, this painting offers many points of access whereby individual viewers might identify and relate to the image on a conscious, subconscious or unconscious level.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>‘Messengers Of The Gods at Sunset', 2021 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 100 x 100 cm Location: Gallery Of Tropical Surrealism , Ubud-Bali, Indonesia.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>‘Cosmic Reflection', 2021 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 125 x 125 cm Location: Gallery Of Tropical Surrealism , Ubud-Bali, Indonesia. Archetypal symbols vie with deep personal references for my attention and that of the viewer. I paint outside under the sky and attempt to reconcile such opposites and phenomena as birth, love, sexual reproduction, ageing, death, body and spirit and the limitlessness cosmos.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Title: ‘Ritual of Roots And Rhythms’, 2008 Medium: Oil paint on canvas Size: 100 x 80 cm Location: Gallery of Tropical Surrealism, Bali</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Title: 'Rhythm Of The Libido’ 2008 Medium: Oil paint on canvas Size: 100 x 86 cm Location: Gallery of Tropical Surrealism, Bali</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>'Medusa', 2010 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 230 x 100 cm Location: Gallery of Tropical Surrealism, Bali</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Title: 'Badlands', 2006 Media: Colored inks, tissue paper, acrylic glue &amp; gouache on watercolor paper Size: 76 x 57 cm Location: Gallery of Tropical Surrealism</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Title: 'Moon Ritual', 2006 Media: Colored inks on watercolor paper Size: 76 x 58 cm Location: Gallery of Tropical Surrealism</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Title: 'Valley Of Fire', 2005 Media: Colored inks, hand-made papers, gouache, glue Size: 76 x 56 cm Location: Gallery of Tropical Surrealism</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Title: ‘Song Of The Tree God' 2005 Media: Colored inks, gouache, glue on hand-made paper Size: 56 x 76 cm Location: Gallery of Tropical Surrealism</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Title: 'Desert Roses', 2005 Media: Colored inks, tissue paper, acrylic glue &amp; gouache on watercolor paper Size: 76 x 58 cm Location: Gallery of Tropical Surrealism</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Title: 'Earth Crucifixion’ 2005 Media: Colored inks, gouache, glue on hand-made paper Size: 76 x 56 cm Location: Gallery of Tropical Surrealism</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Title: 'Cosmic Coitus’ 2005 Media: Coloured inks, gouache, glue on hand-made paper Size: 56 x 76 cm Location: Gallery of Tropical Surrealism</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Landmark Paintings &amp; Surrealism</image:title>
      <image:caption>Title: 'Enchanted Night'  Media: Oil on canvas Size: 120 x 90 cm Location: McArthur Collection, Scotland</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Title: 'In the Shadow of the Mountain' 1997 Media: Oil on canvas Size 120 x 90 cm Location: Private Collection, Melbourne</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Title: 'Metamorphosis' , 1970 Media: Oil on canvas Size: 117 x 94 cm Location: Private Collection, Lithuania</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>'The Awakening', 2010 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 130 x 250 cm Location: Giulia Trecenti Tillack Collection, Melbourne</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>'LIFE', 1998 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 100 x 120 cm Location: Gallery Of Tropical Surrealism , Ubud-Bali, Indonesia.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>'Medusa', 2021 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 100 x 220 cm Location: Ubud,Bali, Indonesia.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>'Bali Dawn And The Migration Of Souls', 2024 Medium: Pure Pigments on canvas Size: dia. 100 cm Location: Gallery Of Tropical Surrealism, Ubud-Bali, Indonesia. Rudolf Steiner describes colour as not a static but a dynamic and constantly moving and changing phenomenon. Colour is also a means for the spirit world to manifest and reveal numerous beings, souls and spirits to human sight when the eye is sufficiently sensitive and the imagination free and active enough to perceive them.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>'Flight Of The Frigate Bird', 2021 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 250 x 80 cm Location: Gallery Of Tropical Surrealism, Ubud-Bali, Indonesia. When he saw this painting my friend the painter Russell Gregory wrote – “Watery ghosts flipping over the edges of a world of sinew and tissue”. The paintings are visual poems. Archetypal symbols vie with deep personal references for my attention and perhaps that of the viewer too. Nowadays I paint outside under the sky in my roof garden and attempt to reconcile such opposites and phenomena as birth, love, sexual reproduction, ageing, death, body and spirit and the limitlessness cosmos.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>'The Triptych PANDEMIC', 2020 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 250 x 250 cm Location: The Pottery Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke On Trent, United Kingdom. This painting was recently acquired by The Museum &amp; Art Gallery of Stoke-on-Trent, UK for the city's permanent collection. Bruce produced the 3 panels during the first stages of the covid19 pandemic. Inevitably all of the events taking place at that time and still ongoing impacted the painting's evolution and meaning. However the painting became a cathartic expression encapsulating a great many, if not all of the influences that inspired his work over a period of six decades, all the way back to Sherratt's earliest years as a student of art in Stoke-on-Trent and the Staffordshire moorlands where he grew up. (Note: the gallery is currently closed for a building and expansion programme and the painting will be on public display in the Spring of 2021. Bruce comments: I did not start painting with the pandemic as my subject. Painting is a process consisting of a series of skills and techniques. I usually engage in this process in an entirely open-ended way. Sometimes there is some kind of image, technique or feeling that impels or inspires me to embark on the process of improvisation and discovery via certain media and materials. But I neither know nor want to know how it will turn out or what the result will be. All I do know is that I am going to want the final work to be relevant, meaningful, strong and significant in some way and that it should say something. A virus can be avoided. The atmosphere of the pandemic was and is unavoidable for everyone, including for me, and therefore for my work. The atmosphere I refer to has nothing to do with passing appearances, superficial impressions or moods. Instead it consists of the entire amalgam of collective, psychological, spiritual, social and political processes, phenomena and events simultaneously taking place. Like air, this kind of atmosphere is filled with various elements. Kandinsky’s words about this are as relevant today as they were in 1912 when he wrote. Not only visible actions, thoughts and feelings, with outward expression make up this atmosphere, but secret happenings of which no one knows, unspoken thoughts, hidden feelings are also elements in it.(1) Fear, paranoia, suicide, disease, contagion, guilt, anger, remorse, paradox and perplexity, narrow patriotism or partisanship. There is humanity and inhumanity, cowardice, stupidity, courage, goodness, tyranny, deceit, love, hate, horror stands beside faith, disbelief, torpor and death. There are givers and takers, the overfed, the hungry and the starving. Self-sacrifice mingles with greed, profound generosity stands alongside hypocrisy, tension, uncertainty doubt and delusion, hostility, confusion, insanity, joy in the success and generosity of others, heroism, integrity and justness. There is brilliance, dull-witted foolishness, remorse and conscience. The impact of fossil fuels in abeyance, air traffic grounded, boarders closed, the physical air and water are cleaner and clearer than before while human thought remains largely hampered, hindered, restricted, opaque and delusional. The proverbial powers that be for the most part continue to sleepwalk. The ‘wise-fool’ on the hill sits stunned while the vulture displays mute power, flight, beauty, freedom, death and the capacity to fly with, over, into and beyond. Perhaps hope murmurs in the paradox of aesthetic beauty and art, where at least the notion of metamorphosis and rebirth whispers through the improbable harmony of forms and colors. Is this the music of the spheres that echoes through the mirrors of my ego, even in the midst of decay, and the tune of breathless dismay? Art is a process, not an absolute, not a noun but a verb. To art involves techniques and skills where the faculties of perception, insight, sensibility, imagination, fantasy, intuition, discernment and feeling are called upon and engaged. These may be called talents, but they can be acquired, developed, extended. They are integrally linked to skills and techniques in the manipulation, control and mastery of media and materials. Take away the instrument and where is the music? Remove the craftsman ship and where is the art? Kandinsky’s book - Concerning the Spiritual In Art, written in 1912 is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Along with his groundbreaking paintings, the book has had a tremendous impact on the development of modern art. Kandinsky defines the Inner Need as the quintessence of art. It is built up of three mystical elements. I am mindful of these in all my work, including the triptych PANDEMIC. 1. Every artist, as a creator, has something in him which calls for expression (this is the element of personality). 2. Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age (this is the element of style)- dictated by the period and particular country to which the artist belongs. 3. Every artist, as a servant of art, has to help the cause of art (this is the element of pure artistry, which is constant in all ages and among all nationalities). Kandinsky goes on the say “A full understanding of the first two elements is necessary for a realization of the third. But he who has this realization will recognize that a rudely carved Indian column is an expression of the same spirit as actuates any real work of art today. Only the third element – that of pure artistry – will remain forever.</image:caption>
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