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Tole painting '16

By  Pen Dalton 2016
experiment with tole painting traditions ["one stroke" techniques originally devised for mass production and used extensively in folk art/canal boat decoration/ souvenirs etc]
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Labour Pains '70s

Shahin, 2011

falling, c 1971

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