At your service

‘At Your Service’ is a work created across five panels, as we witness the unfolding scene through the gaze of a coffee shop guest. The guest ravenously devours their meal - represented here by a cutlery tin - only for a replacement to swiftly descend!

In counterbalance to the actions of the patrons, ‘At Your Service’ depicts the stoic role played by the coffee shop staff, working tirelessly to keep service rolling along. As the scene descends into chaos, crumbs scatter and circular tomato balls fly. As the metaphorical wheels come off and little remains, in steps our hero - a brand new cutlery tin - sweeping away the mess, ready to go again

With a nod to Warhol’s Campbell’s soup tins, the glowing colours lend an other-worldly feel, as though we are witnessing the dawn of creation: the pristine tins standing imperiously, like monoliths from Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, or Rocky-esque prize fighters - at first being knocked to the canvas but recovering to claim victory!

A letratone textured wood pattern features prominently in the work, as it did in ‘contemplation’, a work I recently produced for the Boston Tea Party coffee shop in Honiton (UK). The first of the two complimentary images shows Freda, waiting impatiently for her meal; the second, shows Freda’s meal: a bacon and cheese croissant!