We are a Lion, 2021

Oil on canvas, signed verso.

'...in his depictions of other life forms. Bancroft evidently feels drawn by the dual otherness and closeness of animals and plants, their creaturely connection to us in that we all share life, their distinctiveness in that the spirit and body of their life takes such manifestly different forms. In this crossover between affinity and dissimilarity, they open worlds to us that we would otherwise know nothing of.'
Hilary Davies, August 2021.