The Harpy Calaeno

The Harpy Calaeno. This is a drawing of the sculpture by Mary Pownall that is in the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow. When I was there I kept gravitating back to it, it is just the most amazing thing, I just had to stare and stare.
It is just the most absorbing mixture of the grotesque and the beautiful; a mythological half bird half human in the style you wold generally associate with ethereal angel-like figures. I just love it!

Pen and ink.