Jerusalem

My entry for the last Cubby Hole challenge which was "Green & Pleasant Land" - a reference to Blake's poem "And did those feet in ancient time". It is more commonly known as "Jerusalem", which is the version that was put to music by Parry.

Although officially "God save the Queen" is the anthem of the UK and it's constituent countries; Jerusalem is considered by many to be the unofficial national anthem of England. When sporting events feature the seperate countries, Wales has "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau", Scotland has "Flower of Scotland", but we still get stuck with "God save the Queen", which is hardly inspiring. Oh well, maybe one day.

This was done with multi-layered image transfers onto canvas. The words and background colour are a copy of the preface to "Milton", a work by Blake where the words first appear, and were applied using gesso transfer. The Dark Satanic Mill was then applied over the top using PVA transfer.