Tiger and Bird Neutral Arriving in London between the

Arriving in London between the wars Topolski fell in with a literary group at the Café Royal that included Graham Greene

To my fourteen-year-old brain

with a wry look and something of a military demeanour

His very stylized portraits have a faintly celluloid feel about them

and after seeing his astounding fully-painted rendering of the character

Tiger and Bird Neutral Arriving in London between theIn our Cecil Court gallery Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, Why, why, why? I havent yet read Kurt Vonneguts Cats Cradle but I intend to and hope to be all the better for it especially as I like putting birds on tigers. An arrangement inspired in part by Edward Hickss Peacable Kingdom paintings I first clapped eyes on many years ago.