This is the latest painting in the Project Mogwai series, inspired by ‘1% Of Monster’, a song from the Mr Beast sessions that ended up relegated to a B-side status on the Friend Of The Night e.p. when it really should have been on the album.
As for the picture, I’m still not sure whether the [...]
1% Of Monster
The Night Kept Coming: the art of Robert Standish
The night kept coming and there was nothing I could do.
Charles Bukowski, The Most Beautiful Woman In Town
Robert Standish is another of those artist’s with whose work I made an immediate connection. “This is a perfect fusion of Edward Hopper and the cinematography of Taxi Driver“, I said to myself, and I wasn’t wrong, as [...]
Ghost Town
These George Shaw paintings were published in The Times weekend supplement back in March, in advance of his Woodsman show at the Wilkinson Gallery. However, they were not featured in that show which makes me wonder if another collection of new work is in the offing, not to mention the long-mooted monograph with text by [...]
Now You’re Taken
This is my latest painting in the Project Mogwai series. ‘Now You’re Taken’ was on their first e.p. 4Satin that I can remember buying from Rough Trade waaaaay back in 1997, not realising it would be a life-changing experience. There was plenty of hype surrounding the band at the time, but I could see straight [...]
Still Life: the art of Gerhard Richter
Being able to do something is never an adequate reason for doing it. – Gerhard Richter
There’s an bookshop on Charing Cross Road in London that specialises in art. Often over-sized and ridiculously over-priced, the titles it shelves are the usual flash-in-the-pan fadwagon-jumping cash-in’s or hefty overly-reverential tomes designed to further establish The Canon of artists we’re [...]
The Last Of England
The meaning of England is different for everyone who lives in it. Its physical reality – its actual and emotional landscape – resonates at different frequencies for all of us. But whatever tone we hear, it is increasingly drowned out by the louder but flatter sound of landscapes being levelled, colour being drained and character [...]
Friend Of The Night
I finished this painting, the latest in the Project Mogwai series, last night. I had the window wide open, allowing in an utter stillness and silence that was eerie. How appropriate, I thought.
Mogwai – Friend Of The Night
