Exhibition Night - Tomorrow!

 Modern Memorabilia
my solo exhibition in London starts tomorrow!

The preview night is tomorrow night at the gallery from 7pm.

The exhibition will run until July 22nd so I hope some of you will be able to make it to

GGGallery in Notting Hill to view it.

 

Commission for Redana

This is a painting that I recently completed for Redana, a new company specialising in bespoke clothing & accessories. The painting is of their 'Hugs Covergirl'.

As part of the commission the client wanted a film produced of me completing the painting.

The film was produced by Gallerina which you can watch below.

Modern Memorabilia - Solo Exhibition in London

Gent (Through the Looking Glass)

40" x 30"

Next week sees the opening night of a solo exhibition of my work in London.

The exhibition is called Modern Memorabilia & is being held at the

GGGallery in Notting Hill.

The exhibition will run from the

16th June until July 22nd.

The opening night is on Thursday 16th June at 7pm.

If you are in the London area & would like to visit the exhibition you can find out more information by visiting the GGGallery's website here

If you would like to come along to the opening night, I will be there to chat about my work & you can contact the gallery & RSVP by e-mailing info@gggallery.co.uk

The work being exhibited will be added to my portfolio next week & which you will be available to see on my website.

Hope to see some of there in London next week ...

In the News

In April The Northern Echo published an article about my portrait work.

In article I talk about how I started & some of the more colourful commissions!

You can read the full article here

Lego Mini Figures

Here are some of the Lego Figures which are currently in Gallerina - although since I took this photo many of them have sold!!!

They have been received really well & lots of commissions from people wanting their Lego figures from their own collection have been coming in too!

Each painting has a diagram & part names of that particular figure on the back - see below.

If you are wanting one of the Lego Mini Figures be quick they are selling quickly!

If you are interested in any of the Lego Mini Figures visit the Gallerina website here 

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Update
Lego Spaceman Prints Now Available!!!!

Find them
HERE

Lego Minifigure Yellow Spaceman Painting

Lego Minifigure Yellow Spaceman

12" x 12"

Lego Minifigure Blue Spaceman Painting

Lego Minifigure Blue Spaceman

12" x 12"

Lego Minifigure Black Spaceman Painting

Lego Minifigure Black Spaceman Painting

12" x 12"

Lego Minifigure Red Spaceman Painting

Lego Minifigure Red Spaceman

12" x 12"

Lego Spacemen Paintings

Some new pieces I've been working on recently are these Lego Men.

This is the first set - Spacemen!

Like the paintings of bottle caps, the Lego figures are a simple way to explore colour, form and design. The familiarity of the imagery allows me to almost explode the image while still retaining it, something that I find is only possible with easily recognisable objects.

Also like my other recent work it focuses on an interest in the hobby of collecting in which the displaying of any collected objects (worthless or priceless) becomes more than its individual pieces.

This set of four Spacemen sold immediately in Gallerina last week, on their first day of appearance!

The feedback to the Lego paintings has been great!

But who doesn't love Lego?

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Update ......
Lego Spaceman Prints Now Available!!!!!!
Find them
HERE

Recent Portrait Commissions

Some of the recent portrait commisions that I have completed over

the last few months.

Visit the Portrait collection on my website to see more work.

HERE

One Two Three! Prints Available!!

A set of very limited editon prints of 

One Two Three!

is now available to buy.

This small edition of prints is strictly limited to 15 sets.

Each set consists of the three prints & are signed & numbered.

The print set costs £225 & are available to buy from the website.

Click here for more information & to buy.

Save the Arts!!

The Save the Arts campaign is organised by the London branch of the Turning Point Network, a national consortium of over 2,000 arts organisations and artists dedicated to working together and finding new ways to support the arts in the UK.

The aim of the Save the Arts campaign is to encourage people to sign a petition which will be sent to the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt. It points out that it has taken 50 years to create a vibrant arts culture in Britain that is the envy of the world and appeals to the government not to slash arts funding and risk destroying this long-term achievement and the social and economic benefits it brings to all.

Over a hundred leading artists including David Hockney, Damien Hirst, Anthony Caro, Howard Hodgkin, Anish Kapoor, Richard Hamilton, Bridget Riley, Antony Gormley and Tracey Emin have joined the campaign to make the case against the proposed 25% cuts in government funding of the arts. The campaign acknowledges that reasonable cuts and efficiencies are necessary but that the 25% cuts being proposed will destroy much of what has been achieved and will have a particularly damaging impact on smaller scale arts organisations, as well as on national and regional museums and their collections.

The first stage of the campaign presents a new video animation by artist David Shrigley highlighting the effect of the funding cuts and a new work by Jeremy Deller with Scott King and William Morris. Each week, the work of a different artist will be released. Mark Wallinger will present the next project.

The costs of David Shrigley’s animation have been covered with a grant from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. All artists engaged in this project have generously donated their time, talent and art.

Click here to sign the petition!

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind*

N 6231 Patons Piccadilly 50" x 40"

N 9832 Patons 4 ply 48" x 36"

These are my two latest paintings using the simple repetition of a single image to create a new experience. By releasing myself from the constraints of the original design I can explore a more painterly rhythm within.  As an Artist I often find myself creating rules in which I must work, one of them being, working within the original design of the source material. The reason behind the was not concrete but an idea that in reproducing lowbrow imagery as 'fine art' there was a need to be truthful of the source material. This, over time became unmovable and it is always liberating to throw away the constraints I have applied to myself.

12” x 21 ½”        2 x 4” x 9½” No. 11 Kings Of Speed Captain G.E.T. Eyston

Also in the same repetitious vein a new kings of speed painting with actual cigarette cards and packets

*Quote by Douglas MacArthur

New Works - A mixed Bag!!

Test Card F 20" x 16"

You may recognise the TV as it seems to have become my archetype for vintage televisions.

14” x 25 ½”        3 x 7” x 3½”  No. 30 Kings Of Speed “Bluey” Wilkinson

This is a large scale work on paper based on Churchman's Cigarette cards from 1939. The piece includes 6 original cards all of which are Bluey Wilkinson. The back of the card has been hand painted and over scaled. Mounted on top are another three hand painted versions of Bluey slightly smaller but still oversized.

19” x 13 ½”        2 x 6” x 8½” Spook Talk No 46

Another large scale work on paper is based on American Leaf Brand gum cards from 1961. Like Bluey Wilkinson The piece includes 6 original cards all of which are Frankenstein and his bride and 4 original reverses with terrible jokes!. Again the back of the card has been hand painted and over scaled. Mounted on top are another two hand painted versions of Frankenstein slightly smaller but still oversized.

14 x 10 ½”  No.56 Cheese Fondu

Finally a new work on paper that is based on adverts found in 'Woman' magazines from the 60s. Unlike the earlier works on paper - see here- which were all full page ads this is one large ad and two that are smaller. They were all taken from separate magazines and chosen to create a tension that is found when disparate images are combined. This also gave me a great title in the misspelled No 56 cheese fondu

No.56 Cheese Fondu (detail)