I move with my family between North London and Co. Clare in Ireland, depending on weather patterns and how my trees are doing. My paintings are heavily influenced by the Doolin shoreline, Venezuelan rural art, Brazilian footballers, 70s pop stars, Egyptian funerary portraits, Irish pubgoers and East Midlands skies. If pressed I would describe my work as (wang-eyed) pop folk art.
My main occupation is as a writer/cartoonist/ illustrator, most of my work being for The Guardian and the football magazine When Saturday Comes. I have also written three heavily illustrated non-fiction travel/memoir books. My latest, Small Town England, was published in April 2010.
I have drawn and painted all my life but only started to take it more seriously about five years ago. Before then my main foray into the art world was selling my hand-painted T-shirts on Portobello Road market in west London. I didn't go to art college, read English and film instead, while doing pastel portraits of my friends and girlfriend in my spare time.
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.
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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Size: 27.50" x 19.50"
Price: £370.00
