Studio Puck has been working from a collection of antique books in a Florentine atelier on the Lungarno Guicciardini since 1980 - taking plates from those books and bringing them onto new paper, by hand. A pandemonium is the collective noun for a group of parrots. The word was coined by Milton, in 1667, for the capital of Hell - where the demons made the noise. It has been doing service for parrots, in the same key, ever since. This series, then, is a pandemonium of its own: six head-and-shoulders portraits of parrots, drawn from antique ornithological plates and hand-painted in the workshop in full colour - vivid greens, reds, yellows and blues, set against backgrounds of pink and pale teal. Each is framed in a round white wooden frame. They can be bought singly, or in any number of one another's company. Exclusive to Australia.
