When the Tide Draws Away

I said i would be back soon so here i am.

Another piece of work being exhibited at the upcoming show has been inspired by a trip to a beautiful part of the U.K (yes, there are some) me and my girlfriend made last year, to witness good friends of ours getting married in St Ives in Cornwall.

During the holiday i thought it would be good idea to take my girlfriend on a journey around the various rock pools scattered around the edge of the beach when the tide drew in. Trying to impress her with my limited marine knowledge i tried to find crabs or any sea creatures of note, by the end of my stubborn pursuit i had found naff all and felt a tad embarrassed.

This poor attempt has since been added to my list of uselessness of things im tragic at such as driving, putting up shelves, winning your girlfriend a teddy at the fair and generally other boyfriend/dominant male stuff.

So i went back to the drawing board and decided to do what i do best and just paint some instead.

So here you go heres loads of them, perhaps i should of gone out at dawn....

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This as well as Mr Malky and a couple of one off prints will be avaliable to view or purchase at the Brick Lane Gallery in Shoreditch from May 9th until the 21st.

brick lane gallery show

Hello everyone hope you are all having a good easter holidays.

As of the 8th to the 21st of May i will have work on show at London's Brick Lane Gallery in Shorditch. It will of course include my friend Mr Malky as well as new projects which i have been locked away in my studio painting for the last few months.

There will be one off limited edition prints to buy of the two paintings below



The ticker tape parade




jamie (family portrait)


The other work will be previewed on here in the next week or so.

Till then take care all and we will chat again soon.

Evan Benedict the Egg Hunter

Hello again.

Heres a painting that has taken me a couple of months to get right, looks finished to me after looking at it for the past week or so so i thought id share it.
The Evan name is inspired from the new member of my girlfriends family making her an auntie for the first time, though since hes only a few months old he wont be hunting for eggs any time soon, not even this coming easter.

At first i found it a tad tricky to find how i wanted the eggs to look but it sort of came to me when i sort of zoned out for a second looking at one of the doors in my house. All the knots in the wood started to look like faces which gave me sort of eureka moment.

Heres an image so you see what i mean and also by showing this proves that im not a disturbed individual.





And here it is...








At the same time another Mr Malky image has been completed. Wont waffle on about this one to much all i will say is that them trees took ages!




To end heres a tune that was the final track on Fabric's latest combination mixed by Visionquest.Its called the song with no ending by wildcookie.I imagine some of you may find the title fitting if youre still reading this...

The Gift

Hello

For the past eight months or so i have been working on a interactive story for the ipad called 'The Gift', written by Jos Carlye for Persian Cat Press.

Its for younger children so its a lot more on the happier side compared to my other exploits. As you would imagine they don't want to be giving the kids issue's in later life. This has been a detachment from my normal work but has been a refreshing change.

Sorry haven't got any images to show but heres a trailer



You can find out information about it here and an interview with myself here

Please note that normal service will be resumed in my next post meaning me waffling on about my personal work.

Since 'tis' the season to be jolly i wish you all a happy christmas and will check back in the new year.

Cheers

Mr Malky on the platform

Hello again

As of the beginning of next week and for the following two after Mr Dan and Mr Malky will be able to be seen on a poster at Liverpool St Platform in Central London.



As you can see they both have changed a bit for a couple of reasons; one being that in the story (if your new to this the intention is this to be a picture book)they both start younger than what you have previously seen, secondly (which keeps happening at the moment) my painting keeps improving which in one way is good but is also a tad annoying as i then look at all my old pieces and think there shocking. This means i then have to go back and change them all which is what you can see below.






These are the only two that i think are good enough to keep, the others i have to redo. You never know at this rate i may be able to get it done by 2025, fingers crossed ay;)...*

*Probably not the best thing to say as im still in the hunt for a publisher but hey ho

Well if you made it this far i still have your attention so instead of rewarding you with a Blue Peter badge i thought id through some music your way. The group are called Three Trapped Tigers who i think are pretty ace.
The video is from a Japanese kids show called Kure Kure Takora which after watching a few on you tube is the biggest mind job and makes your worryings on the affect teletubbies might have on your children (if you have any that is) not seem too bad. I love it, enjoy.

Mural on the tube...

As of the 18th of april a condensed video of mine and Tom calnans mural will be shown on a digital projected screen (2m high x 3.7m wide) for a week. Its located on the Westbound Central line platform at Liverpool Street station, London (hurrah).

Its part of the "Art in Motion" project curated by 'Art Below' which features us and other artists continually played over a 30-40 second period, showing the creative process behind all of our work.

More info can be found by clicking this bit


And here's some pictures of it below as i know looking at just words can be boring, well for me anyway...

*had to re-edit this blog and add this bit because the trainline decided that because there is the use of spraycans this work is apparently promoting graffiti, which looks bad on them. There is a good chance that it may not be shown. If not there will be some posters in the tube of my work instead some time in may so dont miss your train waiting for it to show and it errmm dont...

Just before it gets tropical

Dont post any for a while and then you get two in a short space of time, bit like buses (according to my nan).

Got to the stage where at the moment i think i have finished this which has been a long time coming.At the moment feels quite relieving since i started it in november. It has been a proper pol-lava. Was getting worried that the wintery image was going to melt as the weathers started get a bit warmer of late, must of changed the colour scheme about 10 times till i got to this...





Then after a hell of a lot of reflection decided it still sucked because it was a bit to bland. The narrative of the piece is trying to explain Mr Dan's paranoid state to the point of where he doesn't know if what he is seeing is real, so the little blue people became rocks that looked like them and Mr Malky grew devilish horns. If they are actually there or not i guess you would have to ask him.
It therefore changed to this...




All these images of late; and what i have planned will link up into a story documenting Dan and Mr Malky's travels, so the plan is to have this published. As its personal work and im quite a busy chap at the moment getting to a completed stage on this (and the fact that i keep changing them) is quite far away. The time some of these take to do i may be quite old and dusty by then. May have to hold some of these back from being blogged, dont want to give it all away now do i?

The portraits will probably keep coming, that is if my family can keep putting up with being insulted through paint on a piece of canvas.