Across The Tracks and Through The Looking Glass

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.

 

Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

William Blake

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Blake

 

 

 

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.

William Blake

 

 

 

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.
William Blake

 

 

 

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

William Blake

 

 

 

 

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
William Blake

 

 

 

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.
William Blake

 

 

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

William Blake

 

 

 

Great things are done when men and mountains meet

William Blake

 

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,
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet,
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every man,
In every infant’s cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear:

London- William Blake

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 Future of Computers: Mixed media on four canvases: 200mm x200mm

What strange new lands coalesce and take form….

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