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I Want to Sleep With Emmylou Harris Painting
United Kingdom
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 19.7 W x 19.7 H x 1.6 D in
About The Artwork
I don’t literally want to sleep with Emmylou Harris*. Emmylou is a metaphor the more innocent world of the early 1970s where people felt they could change things for the better. So wanting to sleep with Metaphor Emmylou is a way of saying that I feel powerless to do anything about global capitalism, climate change, poverty and world hunger and I want to go back in time. It might also be a sign of my own middle age that I choose to fantasise about women in their mid-60s. Or am I fantasising about sleeping with the younger version, in which case I’d be around seven or eight and a bit too young for her? I haven’t really thought this through properly, have I? Maybe it’s much more simple – it’s part of my yearning for the parallel universe where I am a country musician touring the USA with my guitar by my side, living on cold beer and warm dreams. This is a reworked acrylic paint version of an illustration I did for one of my poems, which was called 'I Want to Sleep With Emmylou Harris' (which were originally lyrics for a song by my band The Urban Country Project). I Want to Sleep With Emmylou Harris. I want to hold her tight in my arms. I want to play with the tassels on her jacket. I want to go to libraries with her and discuss the effect of the depression on mid-western farms. Oh Emmylou, how I would love to visit you To be in a band together would be so cool Unfortunately I have to pick the kids up from school. * Possibly
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:19.7 W x 19.7 H x 1.6 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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United Kingdom
I am what is generally known as a new wave pop folk artist. Usually I work by sitting at a desk with my head in my hands staring at the wall for several weeks, before jumping up and doing a painting in a few minutes. After which I kiss it lovingly - though only when it's dry. My technique is based around putting down various colour layers - with hands, brushes, knives, bits of rag or old gloves - adding new colour quickly and then scratching away wet paint to show the layer below. This is in part an attempt to reveal the perceived mask/veneer of subjects, be they lanscapes, people or memories. It also works on a more sensual level, allowing me to attack my own paintings and crack them open a little bit. Although I'm now older than John Lennon was when he died, and Dino Zoff was when he collected a World Cup winner's medal, I like to think of myself as an emerging artist. I'm just emerging in slow motion.
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