David Rankin 'Yanek's brother' - Lithograph on Paper earth tones Etched in gold against black

Etched in gold against black

Etched in orange against gold

'The Philosophy of Objects No 3'

His naïve style populates picture planes with stylised animals

David Rankin 'Yanek's brother' - Lithograph on Paper earth tones Etched in gold against blackThis work forms part of David Rankins series on scenes, faces and stories from the Holocaust. It hopes to give a human or tangible cadence to an otherwise unimaginable event an event which hits close to home, with Rankins wife, Lily Brett, being the descendent of Holocaust survivors. In the words of New York art critic Dore Ashton, Rankin is an exceptionally intellectual artist who is extremely alert to many currents in the history of art, philosophy