* The Reverie of Forgotten Dreams is for free of charge and it will be gifted to anyone who purchases any artwork in The Living Dead collection.

*All earnings from the sales Day of the Living Dead will be donated to the UN Refugee Agency, Ukraine Emergency Response to help victims of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The Living Dead is a collection of three photographically based works by Terry Flaxton. Each work explores different themes. Flaxton, who was inducted as a Fellow into the Royal Photographic Society in 2021, says with all his work ‘there’s always a tension between representation and abstraction and often his photographic pieces act as a relief from the constraints of abstraction.'

The Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) was created at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery at the beginning of November 2019. Yearly the Mexican community gathers to assert its essential life energy in a festival of the night and Flaxton created a series of inner portraits that began to reveal themselves as the image formed on the screen; the moment of capture, revealed something that is not easily seen - the interplay between the masque, the exterior construct, and the ephemeral inner world.

In the latest piece, Day of the Living Dead, that is recently launched on Sedition, our hopes and dreams are represented by a faceless man who is brought to a halt and rooted to the ground by nature’s abundance as we simply carry on without caring enough to do anything about nature’s plight.

In The Reverie of Forgotten Dreams what was once cast aside, a set of sculptures that are used to decorate the English Garden are to be discovered in their orphanage, a reclamation yard where their paint is slowly peeled away by the elements and our disregard - a melancholy scene to represent human fickleness. But in their plight lies the hope that as values change so their value changes such that their situation may be reversed if a person buys them and places them back in their garden - which of course immediately gives them their original purpose as being a hopeful celebratory gesture of life gifts.