Ace
An earlier painting on the ongoing human and primate assimilation concept.
Read MoreYa Pays Peanuts…
Commission piece for a collector who drives and races the car in the painting, with additional Gorilla pit crew for composition.
Read MoreCredo quia absurdum
This painting just simply fell together, it was an amalgamation of the bizarre and peculiar with the odd personal icon making an appearance. A tapestry of the weird and wonderful.
Read MoreThe Fizz, The Fur & The Ferrous
The idea was to try and paint a convincing primate assimilating into an urban setting, along with road sign and bird to balance the composition.
Read MoreThe Soothing (of the Savage Beast)
An earlier work , the 2nd painting in the Hotrod and primate theme. Most of the primates used in the earlier paintings were Gorillas, were as the later works featured a more hybrid Chimpanzee/Gorilla character.
Read MoreStill Smokin
This work was the first one where the idea of Hypno-Chimp first spawned as a mural on the hotrod door, a motif that ran through a lot of the later paintings.
Read MorePapa Was A…
Inspiriting comes in many forms and this work was conceived from The Temptations classic song “Papa was a rolling stone”. The line “where ever he laid his hat was his home” sums up the final image on the canvas…The romanticized loner, nomad, or selfish, narcissist depending on your perspective.
Read MoreAn Englishman in New York
A fun piece, maybe an abstract self portrait of an English artist in reverie.
Read MoreA Brace of Silverbacks
In my late teens, I bought a Norton motorcycle (in bits ) from a local Hells Angel, I used to sit in my fathers shed polishing the gas tank and daydream of one day straddling this magnificent Icon. Unfortunately I missed a couple of payments, and my dream ended when this burly Hells Angel reclaimed…
Read MoreDefunct
Based on the demise of the British motorcycle industry in the late 60s/70’s with the Japanese and Italians cornering the market with their smaller, cheaper and reliable machines.
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