A peculiar bunch of gallery creatures

Knob — a seven-foot high, nine-footed beast topped with an enormous bulbous mass covered in fine, fine hair. That bulging black knob caps firmly nine long, transparent legs, washed in delicate veils of blue-black ink, as finely drawn and sure, and elegant, as a line by Donald Friend.

It is strange, it is amazing, it is the astonishing weird, harnessed by Heather B Swann. Heather, a dear friend, is part of a group show currently in Richmond and her contributions are outrageous.