Popular contemporary artists Peter and Jayne Smith are delighting collectors with a new series of works celebrating Britain’s love affair with baking.
Inspired by cookery programmes such as The Great British Bake Off, the tasty new collection, ‘A Cup of Tea and a Slice of Bake’, will be launched at Castle Galleries based in centre:mk on Saturday (Dec 3) alongside an exhibition of Peter and Jayne’s most popular works produced during their illustrious career.
The artists will be at the gallery between 1 and 4pm to explain the recipe behind their phenomenal success and much-loved art.
Peter and Jayne are best known as the creators of one of the UK's most collectable artwork brands – the famous striped rotund characters called the Impossimals.
The distinctive style and off-the-wall humour, coupled with unusual titles, has made the Impossimals into one of the most recognisable and collected style of limited edition art and sculpture today.
‘A Cup of Tea and a Slice of Bake’ is Peter and Jayne’s latest addition to their existing portfolio of Impossimal artwork, which they have been jointly creating for more than a decade.
Featuring six limited editions, a boutique piece and a selection of 3D wall sculptures only available at the exhibition, the new collection offers a delicious selection of treats for art lovers to choose from.
“With ‘bake off’ fever sweeping the nation we wanted to create a collection that would capture this spirit and celebrate Britain’s love affair with baking,” said Peter.
“Each piece of artwork has been painstakingly created – from the making of the maquettes to the oh-so-bothersome baking of all the cakes featured in the works!
“As always, we hope to make people smile when they see our work which aims to retain the imaginative wonderment and limitless creativity we all experienced as a child.”
Peter and Jayne’s ‘A Cup of Tea and a Slice of Bake’ collection will be exhibited at Castle Galleries until December 11 2016.
