Charles Blackman 'Butterfly Caterpillar' organic & textural despite being mere paint and

despite being mere paint and cloth

Le Miere’s rendition intertwines these stories

titled lower centre: … I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles…

Image Size: 111 x 74 cm

In this early soft-ground etching

Charles Blackman 'Butterfly Caterpillar' organic & textural despite being mere paint andButterflies are recurrent motifs in Charles Blackmans work. They flutter through his gardens, streets and Wonderland, winking at the idea of transformation. Indeed, butterflies evolving from lowly caterpillars into flight are a utopian ideal made real. It is true that our identity is in constant movement, and our hope that it will follow the butterfly. In this exceptionally rare work, Charles Blackman uses the butterfly to express the general by the