My Weird Collection

We found this Chinese Dragon mask in a rubbish skip and had to give him a good clean-up before he could grace our wall

This Mayan Figurine was a recent precious gift from someone who knew how much we like our weird masks and ornaments.

It is a form of stone marquetry, intricately inlaid with semi-precious stones, and finished off so smoothly that you can barely feel the joins when you run your finger over it. The sparkle is iron pyrites (fool's gold).

Unfortunately, our balsam wood painted Indonesian dragon is hanging high up from the ceiling, so that it is difficult to see anything except his underside. I bought it in a London Market

I picked up this light-weight Metal Inca Spear wall ornament from a car boot sale - I love it so much, I can't imagine why someone wanted to get rid of it.

This Bronze and Blue Metal Inca Mask came from the same car boot sale as the mask above. It hangs on a wall opposite a door, so I can see and admire it every time I pass through the door.

I bought this small Bronze Aztec man from a London car boot sale and he, too, hangs opposite a doorway, so that I can see him whenever I pass through.


I've used this Aztec man ornament as the basis for a T-Shirt design in my new Zazzle shop, opened in August 2011.
I added some flames coming out of his mouth and eyes, and some body spikes all over, to turn him into a fire-breathing demon. Have a look:


Aztec Monster T-Shirt by GloriousConfusion
See more Aztec T-Shirts

You can also buy mugs with the same Aztec man design

This black and gold Aztek mask was a present brought back from Mexico.

The black glazed clay is slightly shiny and the mask looks distinctly ominous in our dark hall.

This Gryphon is part of a set of figurines from the Beswick "Alice" Series. I bought him off eBay.
It is a bit fragile, so needs to be handled with care

I bought these little doggies at a car boot sale. I thought my son-in-law would like them, as he works at the BBC, but he and my daughter thought they were kitch - so what's wrong with kitch? Well, I like them - they make me laugh!

They are a work of art in their own way and appear to represent a Hollywood studio in the 1920's (maybe a cartoon of that era?)

One Day at a Time by John Parker - a bit depressing, but I suppose someone emerging from Alcoholics Anonymous and on the road to recovery might well be interested

The Road to Hell by John Parker shows a man in Nazi uniform bearing the letters SS , carrying a cross into the flames of hell.
The artist states that it depicts the period at the end of World War II when the Catholic Church helped high ranking Nazi officers to escape from any punishment for their war crimes by assisting them, via the Vatican, to escape to South America. He points out that The Vatican, presumably with the Pope's knowledge, but certainly at high level, assisted these war criminals by supplying them with travel tickets, false travel documents and identities and that no doubt this was paid for with assets stolen from the holocaust victims. And, he says, the Nazis would not just have turned up at the Vatican knocking at their door and carrying a bag of gold and jewellery - there must have been preliminary meetings and discussions first, when all this would have been deliberately set up and palms were crossed with silver and gold.
The artist's anger at this state of affairs prompted him to paint this fiery picture.