Pastel on paper
Signed on the back.
This bespoke surrealist, earthy drawing represents an actor perhaps best known for his romantic role in the film “Electric Dreams” (1984), but here he is depicted as a confidant to Donna Haywood, in David Lynch’s extraordinary television series “Twin Peaks” (Season 3). Given his role as an introverted gardener, but he really is the penultimate listener to Donna’s wistful recollections of swimming with Laura Palmer, we see him surrounded by an orchid. The source image of the photo of the orchid is from the artist’s past, also owned by a good friend of the artist, who also had a penchant for a wooden cat. The theme of friendship is somewhat disrupted by a figure a young woman’s torso, her head obscured by a rose, the prefigurement of love…