Drifter
Spaghetti western meets planet of the apes, Clint goes bananas.
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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.
Read MoreSilver Surfer
The car in this piece doesn’t exist, it was fabricated digitally and then drawn onto canvas, the painting is mainly an exercise in capturing surfaces, reflections and a Californian Hotrod scenario to host. It also features the Hypno-Chimp motif again.
Read MoreThe Last Lap
Based on my fond nostalgia for old British motorcycles. A complex work that could take on many narratives to the viewer, there was a vague inspiration from the Aesop’s fable “The tortoise and the hare” but it’s mainly a self-indulgent work of things I enjoy painting.
Read MoreOdyssey 2001
Drummer Boy
Hypno
A reworked version of the Hypno-chimp design featured in other paintings, its a fairly large oil on canvas piece, merging snippets together to form the whole.
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