Above: The original artwork by David Z Crookes entitled: Delia in the Furnace-Room
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Above: Our marquetry version using Ebony for the background, Birds Eye Maple for the figure and Sapele for the cross banded border
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Above: Line drawing of the design. For an A4 copy click here |
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And here's a biog of David Z Crookes which certainly demonstrates David's credentials on the art and academic fronts:
The British scholar David Z Crookes lives in Belfast, where he was born in 1952. He holds degrees in Latin and Hebrew, in German, and in music. After leaving university he gained a professional qualification in musical instrument-making, and a diploma for a thesis on sports administration. His poems and short stories have appeared in different periodicals. His articles in scholarly journals, and chapters in academic books, include pieces on Chinese, English, French, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, and Spanish literature; education; mathematics; early music performance; and the making of musical instruments. As director of his own early music consort, and as an instrumentalist, Crookes has broadcast for the BBC both nationally and on the World Service. Over the years, in addition to making replicas of many ancient, medieval and Renaissance instruments, he has taught instrument-making courses in the United Kingdom and in Europe. His paintings appear regularly both in exhibitions and in magazines. Crookes has written a good deal of music, including two specially commissioned toccatas for organ. His translation from German of Michael Praetorius’ De Organographia I-II (the book behind much of the early music revival) was published by Oxford University Press as a hardback in 1986, and as a paperback in 1991.
