Car boot combat
I awoke this morning in fear and panic. I'd been dreaming of two mythical beasts in combat. I immediately went into a state of surrealist automatism and produced this image in watercolour. I wonder what it means? The only explanation I can give is that I was in heated discussion yesterday with a woman who sold me a massive box of oil paints at Corbridge car boot sale. She wanted a pound but I'd only offered 50p. I ended up the vanquished.
About the Artist
Michael Mcmanus
I was born in 1946. In the 1960s and part of the 70s I was an airman in the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm. I joined Durham Constabulary in 1971. In 1999 I retired from policing and began teaching sociology and criminology at Durham University with emphasis on policing and researching crime. I am drawn…
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