Finished

Finished - spray painted large canvas 80cm x 80cm.  I'm thinking of making another with the stencils and seeing how different it could look. I have put more images of this painting on my Instagram page as I have taken less pictures with my Canon camera.  Need to get back into using that camera.

Large Stencils

I have spent some time cutting a set of large stencils for a canvas 80cm x 80cm.  I am planning to spray paint more detail into the larger and bolder image. This is a look at the beginning of spray painting the first two stencils.

Film of Bottles in Shoreditch

A short film of my bottles in the Far Rockaway window at Shoreditch that I have edited together from small clips that I shot while helping with the display.

Georgie Plays Dead

My painting Georgie Plays Dead is on the wall of the Ben Oakley Gallery in Greenwich this month. Georgie was a friend from college in the 70's who studied sculpture but would also enact spontaneous performance art pieces.  His work was very ahead of its time and people often would laugh at what he was doing. I have since seen sculpture with dead animals, glass weapons, spacemen and old age pensioners wearing machine guns, all ideas that he explored in great detail at the time.  In my painting he is performing the climax of a fight with fake blood and wearing an original 1977 Seditionaries shirt.

Happy New Year 2014

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year 2014

Ducks and Studios

I'm busy finishing paintings, not in my garden, but now in the attic room that I have made into my new studio.  I could not spend another winter working in the cold so I have set up a studio over a couple of weeks, painting walls and adding an extractor fan.  I'm now working as much as I can to get paintings finished for the Flex A&D Affordable Art&Design Fair at Islington Green on the 6th - 8th December 2013.  My work will be on the Ben Oakley Gallery stand and I will be there to help out.
The painting of a duck is inspired by a photo I found that was taken a long time ago by a friend.  It is part of a new set of paintings that I am making using images from my past. I have made a few small canvas and board duck paintings and will be adding the image as a detail on a larger canvas that I am busy spray painting.

Spray Paint on Canvas

I'm back to spray paint and stencils on canvas.  My first canvas since I finished the painted bottles for Far Rockaway.  This is only a detail as I'm starting a larger canvas and adding some other images.  I'm also making five small feather paintings in the same colourway to leave on the street as free street art.