ALTAR TO PAN, 1971
Ink and gouache. Dimensions unknown.
Provenance
David Lay, Penzance, 14th October 2003, lot 307.
Exhibited
Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery, 1971, No. 20.
Penzance, Newlyn Orion Gallery, 1976, No. 46.
The technique is stillomancy.
Pan was the son of Hermes, born with the legs and horns of a goat. He is a symbol of rampant fertility and represents the spirit of the wild things in all of us.