Tits and Bulls

Here's some more recent work. Some Bull work - print-like but not prints - spray paint using hand-cut stencils on to some nice hand made paper, and a drawing especially for Niall, called "Tits sell"!

Spray Bulls 1

Spray Bulls 2

"Tits Sell"

Pining for the Fjords

This is May - I am told she is a Fjord Pony. She looks like Limahl from Kajagoogoo.

Drawings scanned

I have had scanner problems for quite a while so haven't scanned any drawings for ages. Anyway I have now so here's some - tomorrow I'll put lots more on the main website, but here's a few from the last few months - horses, cats, New York, Provence etc.

2 Horses at Réganel

Provence Alps - inks

 (oh) Deer

Horses at le Réganel

Inky Cat

Statue of Liberty

Milo on the sofa

If Chagal had had an iPad ....

Would he have come up with stuff like this?

Whaddya think of it so far?

Sometimes (if I'm honest, quite a lot of the time) when you are painting you aren't sure about what you are doing. Later on, when you have developed a sufficient distance in time you can take a look back and decide whether things worked as you hoped or not. So half way through a painting it's very hard. Sometimes I think I make a mistake by painting on when I should stop. Sometimes I should just give up altogether and start again. Sometimes I carry on and it works. Sometimes it looks ok and like it might get somewhere, but I am just not sure what I need to do next. This is one of those cases. I have combined an unidentified nude female figure on the left with a much more difficult to identify jumble of shapes and colours on the right. Again this is about identity, beauty and the beast, and other things - marks on a flat surface that make shapes. So that a few blue lines painted on the left make a female form, but what do the marks on the right make? DoI stop? Do I carry on? Do I start again? I think I will have to put this to one side and come back some time later. I think i feel the same about my "Cave Painting" too - the more I see it in my studio, the less happy I am with it. I feel like I am at a turning point with my pictures right now, but not sure what's next.

Cave Painting

So back in the atelier without it being ridiculously cold. I have been working on a big painting, 180x120cm, combining various thoughts about bulls, cave paintings and graffiti - they all link up in a weird kind of way. I like the idea of a wall covered in different types of paintings and writing, different types of graffiti, where it's impossible to tell what was done when. Maybe the primitive cave painting was done after the spray painting? Also,  there's a kind of irony in that none of it is real: it's all painted by me, on a canvas, not a wall. Not sure if it works, but here you go:

Cave Painting

6x6

Last year I send off some pictures to a show in Rochester New York called "6x6". the show was a fundraiser for the taller in Rochester New York. They accept images from artists all over the world that are 6x6 inches, and then sell them for 20$ a piece, with the artist's name on the back, so no one can see who their painting is by. So you could get a 6 inch painting by a famous artist or by a 5 year old or by me, even. Gratifyingly, the six pieces I sent in all sold. And the person who bought at least one of them turned out to be a writer and sent me their book, which was nice of them (they find out who you are AFTER they've parted with their 20 bucks!). Anyway, I never scanned or photographed what I sent, but just found them on the web on the 6x6 site - which I was looking at thinking about doing the same this year. Any way - here are my six entries from last year that I've just downloaded - hey, I still own the copyright!

To see more about this go to the 6x6 site at: http://www.roco6x6.org/