Phil Cooper, Fossil, 40cm x 40cm, acrylic on paper
Chimera Book 1 / Chapter 10 – Caramels & Coconut Cracknell
“As usual, with this chapter, I was spoilt for choice with so many vivid images conjured by the words. In the end, I chose to depict a fossilised dinosaur from the museum Kyp describes. I have very fond memories of going to the local museum with my grandmother when I was a little boy. I was completely entranced by the butterflies and insects in glass cases, a giant stuffed lion called Nelson. and the rather dusty, hushed gloom of the galleries. It was a magical place, a place of extraordinary things, like postcards from strange worlds that one day I might visit…“
Phil Cooper’s fossil painting on his art table in his Berlin studio, October 2020





