The Valkyries – Original Relic Box | Character Painting
£345.00
The Valkyries – Original Relic Box
The Valkyries is an original 1970s party character painting inspired by those formidable kitchen women who brought every good do to an end. You knew the night was over when The Valkyries arrived.
Not mythical maidens exactly — more the bloody kitchen women who would put an end to a perfectly good party by switching the lights on, bustling through with flapping bin bags and beginning to clear the buffet before you’d even finished your pineapple on a stick.
Rubber gloves on. Tabbards tied. Faces set.
No more fun.
Home time.
Mood busters. Joy quashers. The bringers of the end.
This one-off Relic Box combines an original 6 × 6 × 1.5 inch character painting with fragments from their imagined world, presented inside a unique found box.
Inside are clues to the aftermath of the do: notes, domestic reminders, buffet remnants and the sorts of ordinary objects that carry the atmosphere of a church hall, club function room or family celebration now drawing to a close.
My Relic Boxes are inspired by the traces people leave behind — handwritten notes, scent, scraps of paper, keepsakes and small pieces of social history that can summon a whole scene back into life.
The Valkyries are part of my ongoing narrative character series, celebrating the familiar people, rituals and tiny dramas of ordinary British life with humour, affection and a touch of pathos.
Details
Original character painting
6 × 6 × 1.5 inches
Presented inside a unique found Relic Box
Includes selected memorabilia and ephemera
Original artwork — only one available
Signed by Sue Dewhurst
Art with a story — even if it isn’t yours.
To view more from the 70’s Wedding Series click here
The Valkyries were those kitchen women who brought every good party to an abrupt end.
Lights on. Bin bags flapping. Buffet cleared. Rubber gloves and tabbards on.
No more fun. Home time.
An original 6 × 6 × 1.5 inch character painting, presented inside a unique found Relic Box with memorabilia and fragments from their imagined world.
A funny, slightly terrifying reminder of every party’s final reckoning.
Description
The Valkyries – Original Relic Box
The Valkyries is an original 1970s party character painting inspired by those formidable kitchen women who brought every good do to an end. You knew the night was over when The Valkyries arrived.
Not mythical maidens exactly — more the bloody kitchen women who would put an end to a perfectly good party by switching the lights on, bustling through with flapping bin bags and beginning to clear the buffet before you’d even finished your pineapple on a stick.
Rubber gloves on. Tabbards tied. Faces set.
No more fun.
Home time.
Mood busters. Joy quashers. The bringers of the end.
This one-off Relic Box combines an original 6 × 6 × 1.5 inch character painting with fragments from their imagined world, presented inside a unique found box.
Inside are clues to the aftermath of the do: notes, domestic reminders, buffet remnants and the sorts of ordinary objects that carry the atmosphere of a church hall, club function room or family celebration now drawing to a close.
My Relic Boxes are inspired by the traces people leave behind — handwritten notes, scent, scraps of paper, keepsakes and small pieces of social history that can summon a whole scene back into life.
The Valkyries are part of my ongoing narrative character series, celebrating the familiar people, rituals and tiny dramas of ordinary British life with humour, affection and a touch of pathos.
Details
Original character painting
6 × 6 × 1.5 inches
Presented inside a unique found Relic Box
Includes selected memorabilia and ephemera
Original artwork — only one available
Signed by Sue Dewhurst
Art with a story — even if it isn’t yours.
To view more from the 70’s Wedding Series click here
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