Jeremy Turner

All Bagged Up

by Jeremy Turner

relief carved wood assemblage
mainly Quebec Yellow pine

Original
Wood
107cm x 67.5cm x 4cm
£995.00

A relief carved wood assemblage joining together imagery familiar in glossy magazines and in high street shops to create a composite whole alluding to the human form, radiating elegance, sensuality and erotic menace.

expensive handbags, ladies shoes, cosmetics and perfumes, elegance, menace, fashion accessories.

Bombarded

by Jeremy Turner

carved wood relief assemblage
mainly cedar wood

Original
Wood
47cm x 47cm x 5cm
£565.00

Carved wood relief assemblage joining together elements from cars, cosmetics containers, perfume bottles, and male and female body details. As the title implies, this piece is about being attracted to and distracted by the erotic, the sensual, the desirable object; and about having one's attention constantly deflected by cravings for gratification. Perhaps more a male than a female preoccupation.

erotic menace, cars, human [female& male] body details , cosmetics. lipstick, perfume bottles.

Car Woman

by Jeremy Turner

Carved relief panel
Pained lime wood

Original
Wood
60cm x 43cm x 3cm
£595.00

A carved relief panel derived from a collage of magazine cuttings. The composition aims at creating an ambience of sensual power and maybe alludes derisively to the content of 'lad mags'. At the same time I have had fun creating a variety of rhythmic shapes and textures.

car, woman, red hair, watch, watch dial, lips

Tornado Woman

by Jeremy Turner

relief carved assemblage
painted Horsechestnut wood

Original
Wood
110cm x 650cm x 5cm
£875.00

In this piece I am enjoying the sculptural forms, rhythms, patterns and textures of these objects. But what am I saying? There's the conjoining or the mismatch of the two elements; the sensual languid car-woman is crowned with the sharp pointed warplane exposing all its underbelly parts. Does this speak harmony or discord?

Tornado jet fighter, car, woman

Look Ten Years Younger

by Jeremy Turner

wood relief carving
painted limewood

Original
Wood
25cm x 46cm x 5cm
£495.00

This began, as with many of my pieces, with a paste-up of cut-outs from magazines - weekend supplements, women's magazines [ I get them cheap in Milton Keynes market], and the Avon catalogue which comes through my letterbox. It continues my focus on various shapes of cosmetics and perfume bottles and how a relief carving of them transforms them and sets up resonances and allusions on various levels. The title tells the story.

Girls face, cosmetics and perfume bottles

Raining Cars and Vans

by Jeremy Turner

carved wood relief
painted limewood

Original
Wood
35cm x 53cm x 5cm
£495.00

The woman came from a magazine picture. Something happened when I scattered some of my collection of car & van cutouts around on the paper beside her. What is the piece about? Congestion? Pollution? Or maybe a bit like 'raining cats & dogs' but with motor vehicles!

woman looking behind her, cars, vans, rain, clouds

Sheer Rose

by Jeremy Turner

relief carved wood assemblage
painted lime wood

Original
Wood
51cm x 41cm x 18cm
£750.00

I started with the car door cut-out shape, then cut out the window and played about with images that looked out through it till this happened. The titled is borrowed from an Avon catalogue - thanks for the idea. What else do you do with wing mirrors ?

womans mouth, an eye in a wing mirror,car door

Driven

by Jeremy Turner

carved wood relief panel
painted sycamore

Original
Wood
76cm x 63cm x 3.5cm
£895.00

The title should tell the story here. As a man I am driven by my sexual desires. Driven to distraction. As I drive my car it holds me, I guide it with my hands, and there's music on the CD player. Need I go on? I heard Henry Moore say once: "To be a sculptor you have to be able to appreciate a pretty girls ankle" or something very similar.

details womans body, profile man driving car, car details, green leaves

Full Metal Bouquet

by Jeremy Turner

Wood relief carved panel
Painted cedar wood

Original
Wood
100cm x 40cm x 3cm
£725.00

A conjunction of images that sets up a clash between a sensual enjoyment of shape, pattern and colour and the threatening inference I might be indicating. The title borrows from "Full Metal Jacket"

cars , war plane, lips, eyes

Girl in a Bottle

by Jeremy Turner

3D carving
painted ash wood

Original
Wood
53cm x 21cm x 11cm
£650.00

The 2D collage this piece started as worked when I inserted a magazine image of a girl's face inside a bottle shaped window. The modelling and carving process has intervened along the away so the arrival is different from where I began and I see a person I know well emerge in the finished piece.

face of a young woman, bottle shape

Gucci Goody

by Jeremy Turner

carved wood relief
painted beech wood

Original
Wood
15cm x 42cm x 5cm
£295.00

Stealing a page from a glossy magazine, I have cut away the desirable expensive watch face and inserted a desirable erotic goody instead. Another treatment on the theme of aspirational marketing and male desire.

watch face, female form

Ka Pants

by Jeremy Turner

carved wood relief
painted sycamore

Original
Wood
22cm x 30cm x 5cm
£265.00

As I wait at the lights what do I notice about the car in front of me? Or, what do I see as I stare through my windscreen as I wait in a carpark? As I looked at the rear end this particular brand of car I couldn't help but see it wearing underpants.

car rear end, car back window, human figure profile

Once upon a Time

by Jeremy Turner

carved wood relief
painted cedar wood

Original
Wood
55cm x 26cm x 5cm
£395.00

Stealing an expensive wristwatch ad. from a magazine and inserting a cutting from another magazine. The watch face, like a picture frame, isolates and allows me to set up new resonances from a borrowed image. The carving process changes the original image too as my eye and hand get to work on it. Many a fairy tale begins this way.

girl profile portrait, watch face

Talk to Me

by Jeremy Turner

carved relief panel
painted Quebec yellow Pine

Original
Wood
44cm x 30cm x 4cm
£400.00

Continues the theme of lonely bus stops, alluding to the advertising panel common on the side of them. How did the fish get there ?

bus stop, fish, lonely man, cloud, crows, lamp post

Unbelievable

by Jeremy Turner

relief carved panel
painted cedar wood

Original
Wood
50cm x 69cm x 3cm
£850.00

This piece happened after I had made some night-time photographs of Milton Keynes bus stops. They carry advertising on illuminated side panels. Set in the desolate night time Milton Keynes roadscene the lit up picture of a girl dancing in H&M underwear was a bizarre sight and dramatised the loneliness of the location. The title was borrowed from the advert, referring to the unbelievable prices, but it suits perfectly as the bus service in MK is certainly not believably reliable.

bus stop, crows, man waiting, bikini girl, clouds, lamppost