Martin S. Laird

Artist | film-maker | animator

Shipping class: Large Letter

Envelope up to A4 and £50 in value

  • Fur-Baby giclée print

    A3 fine art (giclée) digital print on archival quality paper. Reproduction of the original collage by Martin Laird. Supplied unframed. Orders will be sent straight to the print house and fulfilled as soon as possible.

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    Collage by Orcadian artist Martin Laird showing Wallace Simpson with the head of a warthog cuddling her Cairn Terrier Pookie. The background is consists of silver oval portrait frames with pictures of dogs inside along with text concerning the abdication of Edward VIII. The image is mainly muted colours such as brown and light tinted red, green and yellow hues of paper.

  • Coronanation giclée print

    A3 fine art (giclée) digital print on archival quality paper. Reproduction of the original collage by Martin Laird. Supplied unframed. Orders will be sent straight to the print house and fulfilled as soon as possible.

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    Text says "Sir, is your Majesty willing to take the Piss? Coronanation." Collage depicts members of the British Royal family as coronavirus molecules floating over the House of Lords with a pink-tinted backdrop showing scenes of England such as churches and spitfires.

  • Through a Glass: Blackhammer lino-cut print

    A4 hand-made original lino-cut print, from an edition of 38. Supplied unframed with a white matte to suit a 40cm x 30cm frame.

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    Black and white lino-cut print looking through a circular glass towards Blackhammer, a house on a hillside in the North-West of Rousay with a wind turbine situated next to it.

  • Michael Prater’s Farewell to Blackhammer lino-cut print

    A4, hand-made, original lino-cut print from an edition of 44. Supplied unframed with a white matte to suit a 40cm x 30cm frame.

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    A red, yellow and black lino-cut print of a seated figure holding a hammer in silhouette infront of the white gable end of Blackhammer on Rousay. Michael Prater is seated next to a bonfire with the dog Clair, and the full moon rises over the dark Rousay hillside.

  • Maggie Watson’s Farewell to Blackhammer lino-cut print

    A4, hand-made, original lino-cut print. Supplied unframed with a white matte to suit a 40cm x 30cm frame.

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    A pink, grey, brown and white lino-cut illustration of Jim Craigie playing his stroh fiddle while people dance on a pier. In the background Maggie Watson can be seen dressed in a white robe with her arms outstretched, leaving Rousay in a small boat with two naked men.

  • Obsidian Butterfly giclée print

    A3 fine art (giclée) digital print on archival quality paper. Reproduction of the original collage by Martin Laird. Supplied unframed. Orders will be sent straight to the print house and fulfilled as soon as possible. This piece is a companion to The Lord of Fire.

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    Portrait of Queen Mary as Obsidian Butterfly aka the Aztec goddess Ītzpāpālōtl. She has a large central moth eye in her face, carries a still-born baby in her arms, and is surrounded by bats who are flying out of the intricate classical border surrounding the collage.

  • The Lord of Fire giclée print

    A3 fine art (giclée) digital print on archival quality paper. Reproduction of the original collage by Martin Laird. Supplied unframed. Orders will be sent straight to the print house and fulfilled as soon as possible. This piece is the companion to Obsidian Butterfly.

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    King George V as Xiuhtecuhtli, the Aztec god of fire and volcanoes. Black and white collage made from antique royal souvenir memorabilia and old encyclopaedia pages. George V wears the turquoise mask of Xiuhtecuhtli which was taken to the British Museum. The backdrop is a sketchy painting of London which appears to be in flames. There is a tear in the clouds with a solar eclipse like an eye peeking through. The border is an intricate classical pen drawing with a snake in the bottom centre.

  • Wednesday’s Child giclée print

    22 x 25cm fine art (giclée) digital print on archival quality paper. Supplied unframed. Back-orders will be sent straight to the print house and fulfilled as soon as possible.

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    Collage showing seven children from different ethnic backgrounds juxtaposed against scenes of colonialism and war including Palestine in 1917 and the Battle of the Somme from World War One. The children include Princess Margaret with three dogs, Prince Albert sitting on a cushion, a naked African boy behind a wall, a Japanese girl carrying a baby and two children from an illustrated nursery rhyme.

  • The Order of the Bath giclée print

    22cm square giclée print on archival fine art paper.

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    The Order of the Bath. Collage text says "Try it in your bath" and "Three Nuns".,A large duck in the foreground with the robed knights of the Order of the Bath performing a ceremony in a cave and three seductive sirens gesturing towards them.