TALISMAN

Eugene The Jeep is one of my favourite cartoon characters. he's purer than Jesus. Alice the Goon, on the other hand, is the most terrifying creation of all time. Alice scared the shit out of me in early Popeye cartoons. I love Eugene. Eugene makes me feel lucky and optimistic. Bless you Eugene.

Low

here's a picture that very much reflects how I see the world at the moment. It's called "The day After"- when I first moved to London in 1994 I was working for Nickelodeon in Soho, directing the live morning shows. Sometimes I'd have to work weekends, which would mean that I'd have to get into the centre of London for around 5.30am on a Saturday and Sunday. At this time on a weekend morning, Soho is full of drug addled freaks spilling out of nightclubs and wandering the streets like almost fashionable zombies. A depressing come-down freakshow of tramps, hookers, low-life and junkies gravitating towards the few cafes that are open at that early hour. It was fascinating. Depressingfascinating.

NEW WORK N PROGRESS

from the top:

ARIAL MANTRA

EMPIRE

DETRITUS

Getting a little more experimental lately, but running out of canvas again. I have a load of small frames I found in charity shops so I'll be playing around with them next.

new stuff

some new pieces i've been working on.... Poodles are strange. I imagine that the lumps are solid flesh with a thin covering of hair.

Genius

I've become acquainted with an American artist - Andrew Perry Davis. His work really clicks with me and his paintings are stunning. I'm sure he's going to be big one day. Andrew's work hits that dark / puerile spot that I tend to hang around in a lot. Click on the title of this blog to go to Andrew's blog.

 I think that early American animation has a lot to answer for (not that Disney crap, but the Felix The Cats and the Max Fleischers  and Tex Averys of this world)-I certainly have a deep affection for it- especially those old cartoons set in shops where the objects inside all come alive at night and move in their bouncy manner - all scary and funny at the same time.  A while back, Turner edited all the cigarette  smoking shots out from old Tom & Jerry cartoons. Fucking puritanical assholes. High School  Musical is 20 times more offensive in my opinion but I won't spoil my evening by going on about it.

Please check out Andrew's work. It's the product of a dark genius.

Up YOURS

Lately I've begun to focus more on the puerile side of things. Rude words, crappy scribblings, lewd imagery and bad grammar. a few pics of new stuff here, you wankers.:

top: "UP YOURS"

bottom: "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"

In a hole

Still feeling pretty low at the moment. Brain fog isn't very inspiring. will have photos of new work soon. 

Sentences. Getting. Shorter. Franz Ackerman will help....