Unusual Suspects
THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS
“ORANGE BAN LANDS AMISH BUGGY DRIVERS IN JAIL”
“Members of the Amish community have been jailed in Kentucky for refusing to display orange safety triangles on their horse-drawn buggies and then not paying the subsequent fines. Their religion forbids them from wearing or displaying bright colours. Facing up to 10 days in prison, they were issued with blue jumpsuits rather than usual orange prison uinform”
The Guardian | Saturday 17 September 2011
(images taken from police photographs distributed by pacificcoastnews.com)
Exhibited at The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour 200th Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London SW1. 14-24 March 2012.
Unusual Suspects
Raymond Bentley trained in sculpture and lithography at St Martin's School of Art, London. 