In the summer he made small statuettes of his favourite historical figures:-
This is Gerry himself, appropriately gloomy and saturnine:-
It’s a folk version of the National Portrait Gallery. Gerry died five weeks ago and the question now is if and how it can be preserved as a monument to a private obsession:-
I would love to see these displayed. I suppose it counts as outsider art and there have been enjoyable exhibitions of this at the Wellcome and at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind/Bethlem Gallery. Of course another example is Madge Gill whose exhibiton at the William Morris Gallery (much of her work belongs to Newham Council) has just come to an end. I do hope it finds a home.
Dear Joan, Thank you for these good suggestions. I couldn’t think quite who would take an interest in them, but they certainly deserve being preserved. Charles