Toy Dinosaurs

“I saw this pair of toy dinosaurs in a charity shop and fell in love with them”, Jolley has said of this picture’s subjects. A love of quirky and unusual objects is a through-line in Jolley’s painting. The way he, as artist, and we as audience are able to characterise these inanimate things and apply personalities to them is of great interest to him. This painting has been exhibited under differing titles in the past, being known as both ‘Toy Dinosaurs’ and ‘Two Dinosaurs’. The painted image does little suggest scale - is the uncertainty a joke on the author’s part?

• Medium: Painting, Oil on Wooden Block
• Size: 13.7 cm (H) x 9 cm (W) x 3.7 cm (D)
• Original, one of a kind.