The Curious Collection

Somebody has spent a lifetime bringing things home. Every shelf is full: a barn owl and two puffins, butterflies under glass, shells, masks, a model ship, a toucan, and an antelope looking down over the lot. A telescope stands at the open doors with the sea and a lighthouse beyond.

Over on the right the work is still going on: flowers laid out on a drawing board under a magnifying glass, brushes to hand, the lamp pulled in close.