This title came to mind from the Black Eye Pease cd, Elephunk, but I had to be careful of copyright! Once finished, this piece will be available through Cape Town gallery State Of The Art at their new premises at 50, Buitenkant. (Http://stateoftheart-gallery.com) I saw this wonderful street art in Woodstock and is listed as being by Falko One and called ‘I can’t live without my radio’. I know nothing about his work yet, but see on Instagram he is listed as #falkoone, so I salute you Falko. He seems to like painting elephants so look up his wonderful work. I am incorporating Streetart and graffiti into my paintings to preserve them for the future. I think it is such a shame they get painted over, but that is the nature of street art I suppose. I would like to paint work in other cities, London, Amsterdam, the possibilities are endless. When I paint street art paintings for Bristol gallery Great White Art (http://greatwhiteart.com) I more often than not have my lady in red sliding past the colourful background. As a result, I have come up with the generic title ‘Bristol City Rover’ for these works. What could I call…
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My ongoing project at the moment is to produce works depicting street art and graffiti in and around Bristol, preserving them for history as street art is by its nature, ephemeral and will get painted over in due course. Bristol is a centre for street art and graffiti and we have just had Upfest on the street where I live, North Street. Artists from all over the globe descend on my street for one weekend each year to produce the most amazing and stunning works. Google Upfest, which stands for urban paint festival. I now have, again, a wealth of images to use as backgrounds for my Bristol City Roving woman or similar. You can see my work along these lines at Great White Art gallery in Bristol (http://greatwhiteart.com). I am working along similar lines for the Cape Town gallery, State Of The Art (http://stateoftheart-gallery.com). They are now in brand new wonderful premises at 50, Buitenkant having moved from Shortmarket Street. Having said all of the above, I have slightly deviated from street art into portraying an iconic image for Bristol lovers in this piece. The Bearpit Bear stands on a busy roundabout in the centre of…
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The start of a new piece which always excites me. This one is for Cape Town and features a wonderful street art seen in Woodstock. It is 80 x 80 cm. I just loved the way the air conditioning unit has been incorporated into the elephant listening to its radio. I would like to think it is a heavy rap theme. Originally I was going to place my trademark woman to the right of the canvas, but have since decided she should be walking past the elephant who I would like to think is giving her a leery smile. My juvenile sense of humour showing here, but I think it works. Street art and graffiti is a theme which is going to appear more in my work in the months to come. It is ephemeral art which by its very nature means it is going to be painted over. I want to preserve some of this amazing art in my paintings and if I can introduce a little touch of humour and lightness into the work, so much the better. I am doing the same in Bristol and you can see more of my work there at http://greatwhiteart.com. I…
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