Monday, 12 October 2009

Philip Guston Morton Feldman hair

I saw a statue/bust in a shop window which reminded me of Morton Feldman's hair via Philip Guston:


That's Guston on the left and Feldman on the right:


This is Morton Feldman by Philip Guston:


Philip Guston Friend - to M.F.
(painted in 1978, after their estrangement in 1970.)

Thursday, 8 October 2009

Sunday, 4 October 2009

NEVER HAD A NAME, 2008

As per previous post.. now well and truly finished:


Never had a name, 2008
oil and enamel on canvas
96 x 46 cm.
private collection

Never had a name...

Started in 2003 as an experiment in mixing oil and enamel house paints,


and put aside for some time. Resurrected last year:



Saturday, 3 October 2009

ARE YOU DIGITAL?, 2003



Are you digital?, 2003
oil on canvas
75 x 78 cm.
private collection

BLOCKADE SCENARIO, 2009



Blockade scenario, 2009
oil on canvas
34.5 x 45 cm.

This is a lost painting, with no real name

I started it in early 2005, but in a studio move later that same year it somehow fell by the wayside. It just disappeared!!


As you can see, it was huge. I intend at some point to recreate it at a somewhat smaller scale. Notwithstanding that, I hope you are happy, unnamed painting, wherever you are.

MODERNIST PAINTER, 2008



Modernist painter, 2008
oil on canvas
45 x 45 cm.

Archaengle Thunderbird Cerberus

Something I am starting out on:



Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Some good flowers








I might try and get a better shot of the first one, cos that doesn't really do it justice.

I took the day off work

I couldn't be fucked going to the office. It was pouring with rain outside and all I could bring myself to do was loll around on the carpet with the Layla, paint, and sleep. So I had a word to my boss...





Nice to have a stack of annual leave up ones sleeve, what.

Sunday, 27 September 2009

Parsnips, bone-in

Once upon a time, there was a drawing:


... which became an album cover.

It seems almost predetermined that it should come to this: