Blue Man Abiding Print

This artwork is inspired by the street and graffiti art of 1980’s New York and contemporary London as well Mexico City, Bristol, Berlin, Port-au-Prince and other cities. I am inspired by well known graffiti, street and mural artists such as Jean Michel Basqiat, Kieth Haring, Banksy, Diego Rivera and Grayson Perry as well as little or unknown folk and ‘outsider’ artists from around the world, including Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Mexico, India, Laos, Cambodia and many others. The style is intensionally naive and a little rough around the edges. I build up the image in layers of acrylic, often scribbling letters and images with a marker pen. This is often inspired my music from a certain part of the world which I am listening to while painting - the lyrics will often find their way into the painting. I also scrawl a lot of religious or cultural or folkloric images and patterns and symbols. Religious, philosophical concepts or iconography from a part of the world i have visited or long to visit. These will often be mixed with the trappings of material culture or consumer culture which I will mix in with these older, ‘folk’ or religion-cultural elements and symbols. I will often intentionally paint over something I have already laid down, to create a texture. Thus these works are rarely planned and never finished, but part of an on-going ‘process’. The particular elements in this work largely come from Haitian Voudou, the ‘veves’ or religious diagrams and symbols used to evoke various ‘loa’ or deity, feature here. There are also philosophical concepts from Buddhism present in this artwork.

Print:Giclee on Canvas

Size:12 W x 16 H x 1.25 D in

Size with Frame:13.75 W x 17.75 H x 1.25 D in

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