Whimsical square cow by nationally acclaimed ceramicist Lawson Rudge.
Lawson (senior) says of his work with special reference to the flat cow;
‘Many of the sculptures I make derive from my paintings, for example, the flat cows were the result of painting the landscape which was about the inter-relationship of cows, trees and clouds. I simply thought it would be an idea to make a cow on which to paint a landscape – hence the cow being flat – a kind of three-dimensional canvas.
Numbers, mainly two and five, feature frequently in my painting and sculpture, and for many years their meaning was a mystery even to me. However, I now think their origins come from the days when I was a steam train spotter. A conclusion I came to when I compared a successful sculpture to a steam train. If one forgets the numerical values of two and five and views them in an abstract way they can relate to the wheels of a steam engine, or to the movement of a swan and more’.
