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In collaboration with Annie Sloan, this original artwork has been created exclusively for Oxfordshire ArtWeeks, inspired by the Bodleian's medieval bestiary collection.

In bestial art, single and double humped camels have different meanings. As in Annie's painting, one humped Bactrian camels are rarer and were considered faster and stronger than their Arabian cousins. Apes, meanwhile, are associated with the devil and love to impersonate humans. Here we see one giving a good impression of a knight on horseback, although sitting backwards indicates that the ape is leading the camel to mischief!

• Monkey and Camel, Painting by Annie Sloan
• Chalk Paint on Cartridge Paper
• 47 x 49cm
• Surface mounted on a French White mounting board with a 2" border in a 2" Obeche Painted Frame