His Greatest Tweet
A representation of a fellow mid tweet, perhaps the greatest tweet, the idea loosely inspired by the Monty Python sketch about “The world’s funniest joke”.
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Based on the old sea shanty “Drunken sailor”
Read MoreThe Laughing Policeman
This was based on childhood trips to Blackpool Pleasure beach in the UK, where there resided a rather eerie 1930’s arcade automaton machine based on a policeman that laughed every time someone walked past it. The stuff of nightmares for a youngster in those days.
Read MoreOl’ Blue Eyes
From the signature Trilby hat, vintage Shure Microphone and piercing blue eyes, Simian style.
Read MoreBut It Looked So Pretty
A chimpanzee/hybrid. The contrast of the bright cocktail against a fairly monochromatic primate was the main rationale for this work. A lighthearted take on the “Forbidden fruit” theme.
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Spaghetti western meets planet of the apes, Clint goes bananas.
Read MoreHustle
2020-21 Compact Characters series. Based on the film of the same name “Fast Eddie Felson” gets the primate treatment ahead of the “Minnesota Fats” game.
Read MoreSignals
2020-2021 Compact Characters series. To quote Groucho Marx “Be open minded, but not so open minded your brains fall out”. A painting born out of the Walter Mitty within, the romantics, dreamers, stargazers and woolgatherers…
Read MoreSlowly and Surely They Drew Their Plans Against Us
One of the small 2020-2021 paintings, based on my fondness for old Sci Fi films (1950-1970) The stereotype glass helmet filled with a primate instead of the big brained alien so often seen in popular culture.
Read MoreInflate
From 2020 -2021 I did a sizable amount of smaller paintings on artboard, this was one of those. Most of these works are based on the ongoing theme of Human/primate assimilation of character and expression.
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