School Milk
Original oil painting on board
20 × 25 cm unframed
One of a kind
Presented in a hand-painted frame
School Milk looks back to a familiar part of British school life: the bottle of milk, the foil top and the pencil worn down almost to its end.
I chose a recognisable HP pencil and deliberately used one that had been written with until it was little more than a stub. Alongside the crumpled foil lid and simple glass bottle, it belongs to that particular visual language of the classroom and playground.
The composition is deliberately formal. Strong, focused light gives these very ordinary objects an importance they would never have been afforded at the time, honouring something once completely commonplace and now instantly familiar to generations who remember it.
This is a unique original painting. There will only ever be one.
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Why my frames are made to order
Proudly Bespoke
When I first looked into offering framed prints, I couldn’t find off-the-shelf frames I was proud to put my name to. So I didn’t.
Instead, I worked with my printer and framer, a local craftsman I trust completely, to develop something I’d be happy to hang in a gallery or in my own home. These are the same works that have been exhibited at institutions such as The Royal Academy, Mall Galleries, and the RBA. The prints deserve frames that reflect that.
Every framed order is made individually, for you. When you choose your print and frame, you are commissioning a piece that doesn’t exist yet. It will be built, finished, and fitted by hand, once, for your order, for your wall.
