Robin Goodfellow (Puck)

These last few weeks I have been working on a new mask/rondo of the face of Robin Goodfellow,  also know as Puck  (by Shakespeare in The Midsummers Nights Dream).   He is the Classic British Hobgoblin. I played him as a small boy and have felt a connection ever since. The design for this happened all very quickly, woke up one morning and sjust started, as if I was waiting for this moment for the sculpt to come. Not a lot of thought though aware that some sort of thinking has been smouldering away for decades. A few drawings and a mini version happened in a few days. 

This is a Green Man version.                       I shall try out a nut brown version.                                             I don’t want him to be of our world, he has to be not quite human.              But I don’t want him to be a variant on Shrek, even though that character does have a strong connection with European Medieval Gargoyles. Robin is not to be found in Churches but out in the green Wood.

From drawing through miniature (12cm x12cm) to slightly over ice (rondo is 50 cm in diameter).                         Most unusually for me, I used grey clay instead of red clay, for the sculpt.    No idea why, just felt right.                     The whole process has been very intuitive.

I feel that I have known this character all my life and that it has                                                                                                        taken these six decades for him to have emerged fully formed.

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