4th
Aug
2009
Acrylic
8 x 5.5 inches
2007
Inspiration can come from the unlikeliest of places. Some images are born of sunsets and laughter, some are lurking in the darkest recesses of your psyche, this one came from a porn film. It was hung on the wall behind the actresses. I don’t know who the original artist is or what the piece is called but it was far more interesting than the actual porn was, which effectively ruined or saved the scene, depending on your view point of what you thought you’d be watching. This is less than half the original image and I’ve had to invent the bits that were obscurred by… by erm… y’know… that were obscurred.
4th
Aug
2009
Acrylic, Collage
8 x 5.5 inches
2007
I got no beef with a person who works hard to earn a living. I have sincere respect for the person who is successful in business and therefore allows other people to earn a living. I have an enormous problem with the megalomaniac who is hell bent on global domination – the problem is that I am too small to do anything about it. Or so they would have have us all believe. If History teaches us anything, it is to quickly get out of the way of those that have their logos on flags and march at you whilst waving them.
3rd
Aug
2009
Acrylic, Ink, Collaged Typography, Concentrated Annoyance
8 x 5.5 inches
2007
2nd
Aug
2009
Acrylic, Ink
8 x 5.5 inches
2006
Stephanie Silk. The rarest of gifts.
1st
Aug
2009
Acrylic, Ink, Collaged Photographic Excerpts
8 x 5.5 inches
2006
The front cover of Time magazine showed the same shot but with one man clambering over the rubble. In the actual story it turns out the man was trying to find his house. Not stuff FROM his house but his entire HOUSE. I couldn’t get my head around it. Such was the desire to do true justice to the power of the original image that I collaged some of the photography into my painting to try to get the impact for the potential viewer to be the same as it had been for me when I first saw it.
All that we build we tear down.
