PAULA REGO/ NURSERY RHYMES

Twenty-six well-known nursery rhymes are accompanied by a series of etchings which she has executed spontaneously as a child might, drawing directly on the plate without preparatory planning. Following the traditions of earlier artists such as Beatrix Potter, she treats the fantastic realistically, dressing animals in human costume and using dream-like dislocations of scale. These are wonderfu lly comic and rich illustrations with a hint of the sinister, that turn classic nursery rhymes into colourful stories about folly an d delusion...[Read more]