'Torture Garden' Print

Torture Garden 50cm x 70cm oils & goldleaf on canvas. Worked from cherished photo. The world’s leading Fetish Club. A large part of my life from 2007-17. It was a revelation to me! I’d always hated night clubs, drunken macho meat markets with a lack of respect bordering on the illegal. I thought it must me and my severe social anxiety, everyone else seemed to love them!? Then at 40 years old I discovered TG. The ‘vanilla’ person has a distorted view of what these places are like and why should they be able to understand what they don’t need or require? The people I met were respectful intelligent and above all, sexy! All on their own little quests to find what they needed, just like me... the entire lack of an alcoholic culture was also like a palpable relief. I even liked the music. There is an understanding and etiquette adhered to in these places that the ‘tourists’ will never understand. Unfortunately due to its own huge success, the leering ‘tourists’ were sure to follow, and they did. But it remains an enduring success and long may it continue... This is John, one of the many great people I met along the Fetish ten year journey. TG a place where you can be accepted for who you are, or indeed, want to be...