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Painting of seven red ladders with purple crosses and short horizontal lines between the rungs. Lettering added by the creator between the rungs of the right hand ladder read 'Faith ; Hope ; Purity ; but no Love'. Creator's name, interpretation and date of creation are inscribed on the reverse, probably by Edward Adamson.

Adamson Collection

Identified works created in Adamson's studios

Works by Bishop, Mary

A woman wearing a red dress dancing on the left and a woman hanging from gallows on a black ground on the right

Two tall grey stick-figures, one with nose and mouth, the other eyes and mouth, pointing down at a small person seated cross-legged with head bowed in red

A skeletal person seated cross-legged with head bowed in red

A black ground

A person with blonde hair holding a green shape, possibly an iguana

The head of a woman with a frog and a snake underneath

A head with large blue eyes

An eye and a mouth

A huntsman in green holds a bow and arrow in a forest, next to a goat

A man and a woman in formal wear seated at a table with a green skeleton on a black, red, green and blue background underneath

A judge looking over a crowd of figures in silhouette and a man in blue shepherding a white goat to the right

A person standing with arms and legs outstretched in brown

"This will ruin you! But its all in the [interests] of Science"

A woman standing in a burning street

A woman holding her head in her hands with a window above on a black ground

A naked man wrestling with a tiger on a green ground

A humanoid figure squatting with arms raised, surrounded by red diagonal lines

Men and women dancing in couples

A witch jabs a long sharp finger at a young woman hiding in the hollow of a tree trunk

A man standing holding a multiple tailed whip

A nun in a mountainous landscape falling from a high ledge

Men and women ascending naked in a gulf between two black spaces

A woman wearing a green dress hanging from a brown tree

A naked woman being bitten in the torso by a brown fox

A pair of blue birds nesting in treetops with a red fox below

A woman in a corseted dress between brown trees on a green ground

A man in a monk's habit with a black bird to the right and a grey tree behind

A man in a monk's habit with a green tree behind

A person kneeling with hands raised and a hand above

"Washed up"

A bird in flight towards a moon in a black sky

'I would like a good doctor I could trust"

"Don't you see that I am all alone"

'Help me"

A woman wearing a green dress seated on a bed with a window behind her on a black ground

A man seen from behind kneeling in prayer among mountains

A skeleton wearing a blue jumpsuit on a raft with flag showing RAF ensign in the ocean

A man with red eyes kneeling with arms raised and the outlines of mountains in the background

A naked figure seen from behind praises the sun on a dark brown, purple and black ground

A man, possibly Jesus Christ,  crucified wearing dark purple robes

Black waves

A woman covering her eyes as she walks along a black path at the foot of a high stairway on a ground of blue, green, brown and black rectangular shapes

A woman bowed down before a high stairway arising between two black spaces

A woman in purple approaching a well near a gothic style building

A nude human figure with arms raised on a dark black and blue ground

A person standing manacled to the walls and floor of a gabled cell against a black ground

A woman falling down a gulf between a dark blue and black space

Head of a man being strangled by a green snake coiled around his neck

Head of a man being strangled by another man behind him

Head and shoulders of a person with a green snake wrapped around the neck

A drowning woman throwing up her arms

A woman standing with arms raised and knees bent surrounded by black blotches

Sadist in the white coat

A blonde woman wearing a blue dress being held and impaled by a larger humanoid figure

A blonde woman wearing a dress and holding a bouquet of flowers held by a larger humanoid figure

A woman standing next to a tree and five windows on a black ground

A smiling woman with a child stretching out its arms in embrace on a black ground

A woman in a green dress lying face down on a dark purple, red, green and black ground

Silhouettes of two figures holding clubs and a small green lizard

A person standing on the apex of a church steeple on a ground of shades of dark blue

Head with spiky hair looking through a gap in their fingers

A person sitting cross legged burying their face in their crossed arms, surrounded by black loops

Two men in striped robes holding a woman by the wrists about to throw her into a fire, watched by two other people

Three scenes showing a white bird being killed by a hunter and drained of blood on a table

White bird in flight on a black and red ground

A woman bowing down before a three-headed monster

A woman crucified on a Y-shaped cross on a dark purple, green, pink and black ground

Drawing of a woman with three faces and hands raised in multiple colours

A purple face with jagged green and yellow hair, and with crossed hands raised in front of the face

A woman with a weight attached to her neck by a chain with a body of water to her left on a pink and purple ground

Cri de Coeur

A naked woman with two witches to her left and a large hand to the right, on a pink, green, purple and black ground

A kneeling man raises his hands on a dark green, pink, purple and black ground

Blonde woman lying with head forward on a black ground with pale round moon in sky

A broken bowl

A crowd in a London street walking past an underground station

A girl standing with her arms raised against a background of multiple brick walls

A woman wearing a green robe and a yellow headdress burying her face in her hands on a dark purple ground

A barefoot woman bowing down with crossed arms on a dark blue, green, purple and black background

Head and shoulders with hands raised in yellow on pink ground

Red zigzags and loops

A blindfolded woman in purple illuminated by a lantern hanging from branches on a black ground

A man crucified on an X-shaped cross on a dark brown, red and black ground

Human figure standing with limbs, neck and torso twisted

Head with arms raised to spiky hair in blue and purple

A woman in purple and blue face down on a red and black ground

Two arms stretched out among red and green stars

A woman crying with a barred window behind her on a black ground

Two humanoid figures grasping at each other in red and purple

A naked person standing on a red road that is barred by a row of vertical black and beige arrows which leads to a pink sun on a purple ground

Person with arms raised above head on purple and pink ground

Head and torso of a person with hands covering face in pink and blue on a purple ground

Head and torso of a woman with arms raised in green on a purple ground

A woman with raised arms in purple

Person with arms raised above head on red ground

A woman with arms raised amongst green waves and a black sail boat against a red sky

A girl with a downturned mouth raising her hands in pink on a purple ground

Five hands in red and purple surrounded by red droplets

A woman with two pairs of arms, one pair raised, the other covering her eyes, in pink and red on a purple ground

A woman wearing a pink dress standing with six flowers at her feet on a purple ground

"A block"

Two faces in profile with red droplets in between

A face in red with purple and red y shapes and red crosses underneath

'Two eyes"

Red and purple droplets surrounding curved brown lines

A face with downturned mouth and raised arms, between grey vertical lines

"Personalities clashing"

'Chewing somebody"

"Anger against my father for having intercourse with my mother"

"Anger rage fury"

Red mouth biting off the neck of a stick figure with radiating red droplets

"Anger against Daddy for having intercourse with Mummy"

'Anger against my father"

"Guilt at having a hole"

'Myself about 8"

'A virtuous woman"

'A cup and saucer turned into the Holy Grail"

Black seaweed on a purple ground

Purple and green mountains against a grey sky with the sun and moon

"Horrible eyes ('I's') mixing with bags of guilt under them"

"Eyes"

"Opposing elements in myself joining up"

Two eyes and a downturned purple mouth in red and purple

"Defeat"

"A face torn in half by effort"

'Pain in the nerves of the back"

"I Am a Dead Bluebottle, I Can Neither Move Forwards or Backwards"

'My mother says I am a bluebottle"

A winged insect surrounded by vertical lines in purple and red, and a red asterisk shape surrounded by purple diagonal and vertical lines with crossbars

The faces of two red monsters with jagged teeth facing each other and a red grid

"The moon as a mother figure bringing peace and rest"

"The moon a mother figure"

"Blind mouths"

Two snakes entwined facing each other in red and pink

Chevrons, circles, rounded and angular shapes and rounded and vertical lines in pink and red

An Ionic column with capitals at both ends in red and purple

'A rude flower painted with love and joy"

'A rude flower painted with rude feelings like joy and anger"

"Trying to Draw Myself About 10"

'I don't know what to do about my bottom. How can I get away from it?"

"I have killed my father & my mother"

Red and purple diagonal lines and droplets fanning outwards with red horizontal lines above

A human figure holding a curved knife on a red ground

Pencil drawing of a humanoid figure holding a stake on a red ground

A head tilted to left with downturned mouth, surrounded by curved red lines

A head tilted to left with downturned mouth, surrounded by curved red and purple lines

"Virtue surrounded by Pain surrounded by anger"

"The Doll of Nuremberg"

"Virtue surrounded by pain and anger"

Two heart shapes pierced by chevrons in red surrounded with purple horizontal lines and droplets

"Horror 1944 at self"

"A dislike of the extremely righteous one of me"

Purple face with raised hands surrounded by red darts and purple lines

Red face surrounded by purple darts

Purple face with raised hands

Red face with raised hands, surrounded by purple blocks, rounded lines and darts

Purple face with downturned mouth surrounded by rounded lines

Face surrounded by concentric oval lines and darts in purple and blue

Face with green fringe surrounded by concentric oval lines in purple

Face with green fringe and blue eyes on a red ground

Head and torso of a woman in purple with a heart shape

Face with green fringe and purple eyes, surrounded by concentric oval lines in purple

Figure in red, possibly Christ being crucified, surrounded by horizontal purple lines

Faces above and between spiked stems and lattice shapes in purple

Face in red between diagonal lattice grids in purple and green

Three faces with hands raised on purple ground

"Horror 44"

'Angry faces"

'Me trying to survive being tormented by the other children"

'Me about 10 tormented"

A flower in purple

"Me lonely"

'Clementine and me aged about 10"

Red diagonal and vertical lines and droplets fanning outwards, and purple diagonal lines in rows

"Faith, Hope, Purity, but no Love"

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