Menonday Art Vibe: Home Hangs Series

I do like to get along to the annual Open Exhibition at the National Gallery of Scotland each year, if I can. Sometimes I just can't help myself and have to add to my personal collection. This one was (if memory serves) from the 2014 exhibition. It was one of a series of six different depictions of "Nellie Through Life", this one being #3 - if I tell you that #1 showed Nellie in pristine condition, but that #6 had rather a lot of red splashed around, you'll get the idea. I don't recall finding any further detail, but I take the view that this may have been the artist's own childhood friend. I had a bear who did reach the point of being beyond repair. There was no blood, unless you count that which was rushing in my heart when I decided Bonzo ought to be cremated in the garden brazier. Oh, the angst... on discovering that my 1959, wood-shaving stuffed teddy was totally fire resistant and refused to do more than singe and smoke! Thus, it was that he got buried under the Monstera plant in the corner of the garden...