Chimerical

The complexity and fantastical detail of “Chimerical” is defined through Aldrich’s process of collage as a grounds for the re-appreciation of art; slicing & recombining images from a wide array of pre-20th century engravings, illustrations and prints. The work is softly surreal in its combination of imagery and underlying meaning — the strange hybridity of the Chimera in these illustrative representations again at odds with the classical and often geometric landscapes repeated behind them — but also carefully ordered, categorised and structured to Aldrich’s specification, which evolved in the 1990s when working alongside the collagist Fredrick Sommer.  Framed size 32.75 x 42 Inches