Martin S. Laird

Artist | film-maker | animator

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.

Fur-Baby giclée print

£60.00

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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The Marvellous Spectacle of the Fur-Baby is a collage created for the 2025 Pier Arts Centre Christmas Open exhibition, where the original will be put up for sale. It has been constructed from antique royal souvenir memorabilia and encyclopaedia pages, and based around a photograph of Wallace Simpson cuddling her dog Pookie.

The giclee print is taken from a very high resolution digital photograph, professionally printed using Fine Art quality archival ink and paper. Giclée prints are not watermarked.

From the 19th of November 2025 you can watch the creation of this collage on Martin’s LairdCake YouTube channel.

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