Queuing4Lowry

Continuing with the Lowry theme, here's a crowd of his characters queuing up to have their portraits painted...

PaintingLowrys

My tribute to L.S.Lowry: a crowd of Lowrys painting Lowrys. Most of his popular paintings are here, but see how many you recognise. It was quite a challenge to paint his little people even smaller so I had to go out and buy a minute brush for this. Hope to show this when I have my exhibition in Salford Art Gallery next summer.

Painting Nudes

Following on from the other painters painting pictures here's my view of art history reduced to a bunch of old blokes painting pictures of nude women. It gives me great pleasure to reproduce all these masterpieces of western art as ugly little blobs of paint - but how many can you recognise...?

More Painters Painting

Another painting of painters painting. How many artists can you identify? I looked up a list of the most famous artists of the last century and for some reason there are a lot of Americans, and most of them are white males, including Pollock doing one of his drip paintings. But there's also Georgia O'Keefe and Frida Kahlo, Basquiat and Chris Offili. And there's also Damien Hirst watching one of his assistants paint a spot painting for him. He has a studio about a mile from mine where his work is manufactured. Can't imagine ever employing an assistants to paint my paintings but you never know...

Cages of Freedom

This is a painting I'm donating to the art auction for Amnesty in October. I've always been interested in optical illusions so here I'm combining that with a few figures from the crowd paintings. As with all my work it expresses an ambivalence towards notions of 'freedom'.

Running to the Sun

Here's a new painting for everyone off on their summer holidays and especially those VolksFolk driving off in search of the sun in their vans and beetles. I've even included Herbie The Love Bug (his number just happens to be the same age as the artist).

Waving Axes

Two new fans added to the painting of England supporters - the coalition chums Nick and Dave waving their axes. Just a reminder that even if we win the World Cup I'm not sure the rest will have much to cheer about with so many cuts round the corner.