Shrines are appearing everywhere.

They are attached to trees, parkbenches, viewed from the roadside or a public path. Old places of remembering and contemplation are falling into disuse, becoming redundant, we are a people in need of the spiritual. Shrine is a response to this phenomenon, an ongoing subject for my interests. 

My shrine stood in a small darkened room and consisted of a painted structure on tall legs containing a small female figure or deity on her lap a small apple.

On the floor beneath a stool, painted with a male face. Surrounding the stool, one hundred apples or offerings.

To complete the work, my son Joe Bayliss with whom I collaborated on Hortus Conclusus - Enclosed Garden exhibition in Mission Gallery, Swansea in 2012, produced a haunting soundscape.