Fallen from Olympus VIII

 I think this really is the last one, now. It's been good to have some obsessions to follow though. I'm pleased with how the pinstripe trousers have worked out. I spent some time yesterday staring at the back of some guy's trousers yesterday to try and work out how the shadows go. Making them pinstripe worke out well too. This is another drawing (the guy's head anyway) thatt dates back some years - around 2021, I think. Then I constructed the body out of other random passers by over the last day or two. A bit like Dr Frankenstein, really.

Fallen from Olympus VII

 Slight variation in the position of the viewer here, with our party-goer on the left hand side of the picture. It's a slight nod to the teary drunks who used to say "it was a great pub..." Maybe they still do.

It look me a while to find someone suitable for tthis one. Ended up plumping for a life-drawing from back in 2017 or tthereabouts. 

Fallen from Olympus VI

 Just when you thought it was all over... A little idea occured to me and it grew and grew to become this.

I certainly felt I had no defense here. The print insisted that I make it. It took a little while to shape up, but it was relentless in its will to be said. I'm not entirely sure what I'm gettig at here. It's got something to do with the fact that neither figure is looking the way they "should" be. And there's something about actions and consequences here, too. But I'm not going to delve too deeply. I'll just leave it up to the viewer. 

Video interview for WOS 25

Mala Beds Anniversary Show 7 - 20 June

 Not your typical art show, but eight of us local artists have put on a pop-up exhibition at Mala Beds in Rugby to help celebrate their first anniversary. All thanks to their marketing team contacting my entrepreneurial wife about local artists maybe doing some pavement art for them. Luckily we didn't go with that idea because it poured with rain on the opening day yesterday. But the in-store exhibition worked out well, putting our stuff in front of a different clientelle.

The artist are: myself; Eric Gaskell; Joseph Ryan; Ross McA; Vikki Skinner; Ije; Clare Pentlow; Jane Tilley.

PS The shop owner is so delighted the show will carry on until July 7th.

 

RA&M Exhibition: Transformations

 This Rugby Artists and Makers exhibition is at the Alex between 6 June and 6 July. It'll overlap with this year's Warwickshire Open Studios.