ROBERT HAWKINS : POWER OVER NATURE
10 Jun-4 Jul 2010

The centrepiece of this show, "The First Ghost" features a large 8' tableau, a family of Cro-Magnons huddled in a corner of their cave, as a pale ghostly figure rises from the fire. This painting first was exhibited in the Leo Tony Gallery in Manhattan in /94 but after a dispute disappeared along with 35 other paintings. A few years later it was surprisingly rediscovered being used as an awing above a vintage clothes shop on Lafayette Street. Hawkins has since restored it to a much higher degree and it will now be exhibited in London for the first time.