E.C. KNIGHTINGALE
Artist. Boat Builder. Storyteller.
Gill & Berts Pet Food Tin Posters. Mixed media, various sizes.
G&B Pet Food Poster Mixed media on board & canvas with metal frame: 29" x 46"
Inspired by a 1950's French's Fish Food tin advertising poster, this piece is built in a vintage advertisement style.
The 1872 date in the masthead references the New Thought Movement.
The name Gill & Bert's is a play on fish gills. Breath symbolizes life and the power of the spirit.
The G&B above the sailing ship stands for "God & Breath."
The Latin words for fish and food, Piscis and Cibus, appear in the emblem.
Mounted on canvas and packing crate boards, framed in a metal motorcycle shipping frame.
Song Restorer Yellow Mixed media in original Victorian frame: 41" x 24"
Inspired by an actual 1950's French's Bird Song Restorer tin. Stimulating food for caged birds. Your bird will sing for it.
Framed in an old sash window from an 1895 Victorian home in Toronto.
Gill & Bert's Bird Food Mixed media in original Victorian frame: 32" x 39"
Food is consumed for the body to survive. By analogy, the digestion of life experience contributes to the soul's.
Framed in an old sash window from a Victorian home in Toronto.
Song Restorer Red Mixed media in original Victorian frame: 32" x 42"
Song Restorer helps revive well-being and restore full song. It's about loving yourself.
Framed in an old sash window from an 1895 Victorian home in Toronto.
Portraits of Sammy Mixed media framed with 1895 Victorian window: Each 23" x 19"
When I was a child we had a canary named Sammy. Each morning we would come down to the kitchen and my Mom would remove the fabric birdcage cover. Sam would start to sing and hop around. It was lovely to see. Every night his cage would get covered again and the singing would stop. He lived his entire life in a cage. Sam eventually died and we held a bird funeral for him in our backyard.
These three pieces were inspired by Sammy and are dedicated to all the caged birds out there.
