Imagine a world in which antique rusty hand-saws which for many decades were used to saw through trees, branches and timber planks become transformed into trees…..Imagine a pile of old wooden rulers which used to measure out timber for marquetry themselves becoming marquetry panels…..Imagine ordinance-survey maps that illustrate the location of woodlands in your neighbourhood becoming the trees…..Imagine piles of books which fill libraries in buildings becoming buildings themselves…..Imagine an astonishingly real three-dimensional natural vortex which threatens to suck you into another world, yet is only as thin as cardboard with nothing behind it…..Imagine paper made from trees is laser-cut into a lace-like natural landscape…..Imagine decorative old tins which may have held tuna or salmon turning the tables by being transformed into fish and birds, while knives, forks and spoons which were used to eat meat become the skeletal bones and structure of animals and birds….Imagine a portrait of John Lennon created from a catalogue of printed letters and a beautiful organic sculpture emerging from the enlarged natural form of a bird’s nest.

Too much to imagine all these transformations?  Not at all.  These and a wide variety of sculptures, paintings, photographs and other artworks from galleries and artists all around the world are all available for sale at this week’s Affordable Art Fair in Battersea, a venue which has now received a much-needed update with the addition of a new first floor café, lift, grand staircase and even a crèche for youngsters who are starting to use their imagination at an early stage.