"Shush"

My take on an old Hartlepool legend. See here for a bit of background on the Hartlepool monkey hanging legend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_hanger

I knew I wanted to do a piece of art around the legend, it's just that (since I don't get off on seeing animals being killed) I decided to do something with "an upbeat ending" where the monkey actually escapes. This is the the first in a three part series entitled "Hartlepool Iconography" which I am currently exhibiting at a local gallery.