‘DOUBLE SHOCK’ Painting

About 12 years ago I was watching my favourite TV show on DVD: Columbo. I paused the show to leave the room for something, probably more tea, when I came back in the room I was struck by the image on the TV screen, so I took a photo of it. That was Vivian Dimitri from episode 'RIP Mrs Columbo'. I would continue to occasionally photograph these Columbo 'pauses' with no real purpose other than to capture these fleeting images that I found appealing. Many years later I decided I would paint Gloria and with her came the start of 'The Women of Columbo' series of paintings. Considering composition, colour, and mood mostly, I do not intend to recreate these images exactly, I'm more struck by the macabre glamour of these ‘pauses’ and my intention is to capture a mood or fleeting expression caught for a split second in a TV screen still. This is the character of Lisa Chambers from 1973 episode 'Double Shock' played by the stunning Julie Newmar. Alas Lisa later meets a grisly end off of a balcony, which is behind her in this slightly ominous image. Nearly all of the images are executed in acrylic on canvas but this piece of one of two of the series that includes spray paint. I used this for the abstracted foggy haze and intense blue of the Los Angeles background in this scene.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:39.4 W x 31.5 H x 0.6 D in

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