Let There Be More Light2011.08.26
Newly finished canvas, ‘Let There Be More Light’, oil 90cm x 90cm Inspired by the old Pink Floyd song of the same name from when they were still a psychedelic rock band, from the Saucerful of Secrets LP 1968, and visions it first brought to my head when listening to it many years ago (and still does); hip hop hippy, pre acid house walkman trip man.
Mutate Britain Winter Show-Picture Heavy Post part 12009.12.09
Here’s some more pictures from the MuTate Britain Winter Show. I’m going to be adding a whole load more as a separate post at the weekend at some point as I need to rephotograph stuff to a half decent standard. This has to be one of the best art exhibitions anywhere ever in my humble opinion and I’m very glad to have had a hand in it….If you like your surrealism apocalyptic your graffiti groundbreaking your grime genuine and your people straight up this is the place for you…..We kick of with Rubbish Fairy and House of Doll
Mear
Fuel
Joe Rush
Lyle Doghead and LRRY and Pakka with plane by Sam Haggerty and Dotmasters
Teddy Baden
Joe Rush
Wreckage International
Joe Rush and others
Sam Haggerty
War Boutique
Wolf and PXL
Andy Seize
Sam Hagarty and Dotmasters
Liam Cordy
Mutoid Dave and others…
Pure Indulgence Families are welcome to this multisensory extravaganza!. Full dates and opening times below. We look forwarding to seeing you! Opening times: Opens December 4th to December 20th – FRI / SAT / SUN Fri – 2pm -10pm We are also open 2 Wednesdays for the Portobello Winter Festival on the 9th & 16th December – 6pm -10pm FRI & SAT (NO ENTRY AFTER 9PM) SUN (NO ENTRY AFTER 8PM) £2 before 6pm / £3 there after’ www.mutatebritain.wordpress.com facebook mutatebritain The Inspiration of William Blake2009.09.25
Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet
Prose by William Blake-1757-1827 All paintings by myself, many of these and many more will be displayed at my forthcoming exhibition
I wander through each chartered street, In every cry of every man, London- William Blake Living Under The Lines2009.09.18
I’ve been posting a lot of graffiti based stuff lately, but I never forget my love for good old oil on canvas, so here’s a little something I knocked up way back in the late 90’s called ‘Living Under The Lines’. I realise it’s already on my main site but thought it deserved a post on the blog as the definitions of what categorisation it may fall into seem have been redefined I suppose now they call it Lowbrow/ Pop Surrealism. I like to think of it maybe as Urban Visionary but hell what’s in a name, label, tag, school or ism? It is what it is. To me at the time it was just a feeling I wanted to get onto canvas. I think I hit the mark.
The Subjective Association of Symbols2009.09.03
Here’s an oil painting I did way back in 1998. I thought I’d drag it out and post it as it seems to have gained new significance…
Phosphene Generation: Analogue 12009.07.31
Phosphene Generation: Cropped from Original Oil Painting- Inverted in Photoshop Andy Seize: Taking Pop Art to A New Level2009.07.10
Andy Seize has been painting graffiti since the eighties now he’s taken pop art to a stunning new level as only an old school graffiti writer could. His show is on until Monday 13th July 2009 from 12 to 4pm
More after the jump… It’s About to Blow-In Stages2009.05.17
In the time leading up to this work an unyielding ‘itch’ had gotten into my head, provoked by awareness of the instability, inefficiency and unaccountability of the systems which govern and power our planet. Every night I watched the news the ‘itch’ would increase, as report upon report drew my attention to the precarious threads which hold our precious reality together, and the self-serving and dangerous attitudes and actions of our so called leaders.
Better Living- From Sketch to Oils2009.05.17
This is a sketch for a painting I did in 2001, I thought it worth posting due to the amount of possibilities in the outline, and my interpretation of it. Following is the finished painting… |
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