Eric Thake 'Horsham Sale Yards: She’s a beautiful pig boys, all meat and no pertaters' etching It testifies to Blackman’s status

It testifies to Blackman’s status as among the key chroniclers of childhood

Hammond is represented in public collections including the War Memorial

Image Size: 95 x 65 cm

a cat shrinks beneath the bed

Image Size: 52 x 48 cm

Eric Thake 'Horsham Sale Yards: She’s a beautiful pig boys, all meat and no pertaters' etching It testifies to Blackman’s statusEvery year, modernist Eric Thake would send his friends a hand made Christmas card. Original linocut prints, these cards have become canonical, each observing a changing nation through one its most distinct voices. They also speak to Thakes innerworld, with this particular work coming from the collection of his friend, revered writer and curator Ursula Hoff. Dated 1960, Shes a beautiful pig boys, all meat and no pertaters! is a comical image. An