English: Environmental Sand Artist Brian Pike created a number of sketches in the mid eighties as an experiment in conceptual art. The compositions consisted entirely of iron filings sprinkled onto plywood or cardboard and then arranged in a series of similar images with a feather. He then used a bar magnet to gently magnetise the iron filings before going on to fix the pictures to achieve the desired results. The sand artist then used the same technique as one of the elements incorporated in the coloured sand portrait of Margaret Thatcher (The Iron Lady). He later went on to portray the destruction of the 'Iron Curtain', again using magnetised iron filings but also incorporating crushed particles of the Berlin Wall. This particular sketch was the only one to survive a flood and was recently discovered in its battered state among some bags of coloured sand. As far as is known it may be the only sketch ever made using this novel method of creating a permanent picture in iron filings. Size - unframed 22cms by 11.5cms NOTE This is the tidied up version of 'A field of magnetised iron filings' - after photoshopping out the 'warts and all'!