The Child works are my responses to the confusion of some children with confusion indicated to them by parents - unwittingly - too many rules, too often. Parents fear/embarrassment is reflected in these innocents who really have their own excellence for a time. Get intelligent now. P.H. 6/11/91 Inscribed verso

Works have been made up from broken paintings of (mine) and are used in a reaction to the cleanism of Post-Modernism. Away from the precious, the tough is broken, veneer threatened, materials exposed and explored. The nails and staples are supposed to show. Invention and creative changing, formal and informal, invite the viewer to re-experience Alterations. Disengage your old brain. Patrick Hanly. 1991 on original label affixed verso.