Thank you Spaceland!

 

Thanks Steve K. The Garden of Earthly Delights. Yes it's a delight, and Bosch's work certainly influenced this one. More specifically I visited the Cathedral at Albi a few years ago and on the back walls their are horrific scenes of hell and torture. The idea was that the Catholics of the time were trying to subdue the local peasant population by showing them images of what would happen if they weren;t good etc (eg give a tithe to the church) It could have been just after the Catholics exterminated  the Cathars from memory. .Ah here is a link http://www.sacred-destinations.com/france/albi-cathedral  and http://www.sacred-destinations.com/france/albi-cathedral/photos/xti_0553p

 

My work is called Vandals at the Gates. The city where I live has an ongoing battle between property developers, football supporters and the Arts. So here we have musicians (later became painters when I painted the image) in the image being tortured by the bad guys. Last year a few Chinese people came into my studio at remarked on the painting that it reminded them of one of their Folk Stories. The identified the King Devil as the Hero...........