Robert Alwyn Hughes
'Red Lady series' No 1.

A series of watercolours on one of the most famous sites of Ancient Europe - Paviland Cave Gower. A site of the ceremonial burial of the so called 'Red lady of Paviland' radio carbon dated to over 26,000 years ago. The 'dead' comprised of a male skeleton coloured in red ochre and not that of a woman as was first believed. The red ochre wasthought to have been sprinkled over the body as a ritual symbolic act.

 

'Entry of the Elect into Paradise': study

'Red Lady of Paviland' series No1

'Red Lady of Paviland' series No 2

'Red Lady of Paviland' series No 3

'They Speak with Tongues : study

'Stations of the Cross Study 1'

'Stations of the Cross Study 2'


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