Charles Blackman 'Paradise Garden' reproduction-print In the almost sold out

In the almost sold out ‘Dancing Children’ Blackman revels in this wonder

Reaching across the cosmic and mundane

the work is warm in palette but lively in form

night hanging all around

This rare print

Charles Blackman 'Paradise Garden' reproduction-print In the almost sold outParadise Garden is a spellbinding image. In it two unclothed figures, perhaps Adam and Eve, recline in a garden. Plants coil around them, the sky stewing with distant rapture. Eve inhales a flowers perfume, Adam lies prone is he asleep or unconscious? Like a thorned flower or poisoned fruit, Paradise Gardens deals in beauty and threat. It is sumptuous and strange, an earthly delight at the rainbows end. Paradise Gardens has never been on the market.