MOORCROFT 18cm VASE "WHO GOES THERE" Signed By Designer Anji...

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£210

MOORCROFT 18cm VASE "WHO GOES THERE" Signed By Designer Anji Davenport.R.R.P. £595.00.
(Summer or Winter, night or day, if you sit Moorcroft designer, Anji Davenport, in the corner of a field, something akin to pure magic will emerge from her sketch book. This time, Anji’s fields are covered in snow: a winter sun spreads streaks of cold blue, amber and yellow across a distant village and rolling white hills. The air is cold, and the scream of a distant vixen shatters the silence. The designer’s black cat cares nothing for the foxes, the chill of the sky or the white snow. Everything she sees is crystal clear. A wooden post and rail garden fence protects her sanctuary and her retreat. A fox is prowling past with more of its family slinking quietly across the snow in the distance. To the black cat, the fox is a mere object of curiosity, not fear. This is nature in the wild, drawn by an artist who is in control of her design and confident in her subject matter. For those familiar with landscapes in winter when warmth has gone into hiding and humans sit by their fires in heated homes, Who Goes There is an atmospheric picture, a scene which many of us will have studied at some time or another in our lives. The designer offers us a generous vase, each turn of which reveals something new.)