Gastro Pod by Kerry Darlington

An adorable looking tin snail makes steady progress across a field, sowing the seeds of love and harmony as it goes on its merry way, and pumping clouds of happiness out into the atmosphere to the heart’s content of those who ride on the giant and improbable mollusc.

Visions of sheer joy like this are all in a day’s (and weeks, and months) work for a much trumpeted (and much justified) contemporary artist, going by the name of Kerry Darlington.

‘Gastropod’ is her most recent illustrative foray, a mixed media, hand-embellished limited edition piece which is ablaze with colour and visual fireworks as is typical of a Darlington pictorial number, with hand-encrusted three-dimensional elements only upping the perspective factor to overload.

What’s more, this is an individually signed and numbered piece. ‘Gastropod’ forms a three-prodded attack on our visual senses, ably supported by the inclusion of ‘TightAnick’ and ‘BeezyJet’ as integral parts of her ‘Eccentric Machines’ mini series.