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Australia
Printmaking, Giclee on Paper or Canvas
Size: 40.2 W x 29.9 H x 0 D in
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I grew up in the UK. Back then there were travelling circus and, when the ‘Big Top’ came to town, my parents would take me to see the show. When I finished art college I chased a career in comedy. With two like-minded, post-graduates I wrote and toured our hour-long, comedy-sketch show the length and breadth of the UK. There was a good deal of visual humour in our routines that echoed back to the 'slapstick' of music hall, vaudeville and, I guess, circus clowns. My clowns are all imagined. Their faces, costume and make-up all created solely to make their 'once-in-a-lifetime' appearance in this painting. One thing I didn't expect to encounter when i was painting the faces was that I had to actually complete their portrait before I could apply their make-up. Art imitating life?
Printmaking:Giclee on Paper or Canvas
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:25
Size:40.2 W x 29.9 H x 0 D in
Frame:Not applicable
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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Ships From:Australia.
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I was born in North Wales, educated in the North of England and grew up in London. I attended art college for five years graduating from Leeds College of Art (now Leeds Arts University) with a 1st. Class Honours BA in Fine Art (Painting). Amongst an array of artistic endeavours I’ve been a creative director in London ad-agencies, a copywriter, an animator, a comedy writer and performer, an art director and a graphic designer. In 2002, having tired of London, I migrated to the sun-drenched shores of Queensland, Australia which is now my home. In the years before this adventure I was commissioned to paint murals on the walls of Elton John’s Rocket Records. I designed and devised a host of album sleeves for world-wide, chart-toppers and worked extensively with George Harrison’s HandMade Films and with the Monty Pythons. I created movie posters and campaigns for the iconic Life of Brian and the Bond Movies, sold Bentley motor cars to the Japanese market and I’ve written strap-lines for Hollywood blockbusters. My career which has always been, let’s say unconventional, has now come full circle and to my complete surprise I’ve picked up the brushes again. I paint whatever interests me although I openly admit I’m unsure where the ideas spring from. I do know the subject matter must be challenging, engaging and seemingly, without any conscious or devious planning on my part, always turns out to be quirky, unconventional and unorthodox. I guess the words that best express and sum up my work are - ‘captivatingly idiosyncratic.’
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