Uncle Denim take 2

It is the end of the golden weather here in AKL and to be honest it has been more of a golden grey at best this summer. One of the projects I’ve been working on is painting my buddy Denim’s bike.

King Brown Magazine interview

Pretty exciting! An interview with me for King Brown Magazine just went live online on Wednesday. King Brown is renowned for featuring some pretty amazing artists and is one of the strongest creative Australasian mags of recent years.
Head on over to King Brown Magazine’s blog to read the interview http://www.kingbrownmag.com/blog/
Thanks Cleo for interviewing me. Always a pleasure x

Space Is The Place

Yeah! This is going to be a great exhibition with some of my favourite people. I’m painting all sorts of crazy green haired ladies like the one here and finally printed copies of ‘Now or Never’, will be available which Josh Slater and I collaborated on last year. Yeah!
It’s also the official opening for the gallery Number 4 on Cross St and Inhouse Projects and happens to co-incide with the first First Thursdays event for the year. Phew. It’s early here, I’m out for coffee…

100 Portraits

Wow! The prolific  Scott Hamilton has been making us all look lazy by producing 100 portraits in 20 weeks.  I was blown away yesterday to find out that I am the subject of number 93. It is one of the nicest compliments I have ever received. Only 7 more to go Scott! Then what?!!!

EYESORE

Secret amazing project! Visit http://eyesoreon.tumblr.com/ for all the details. It’s a whole new body of work I’m unleashing on 2012.  Colour, lurid at that, who ever would have thunk?

It’s treacherous I know but I’m working over on Tumblr too.

Mini nerves…

‘The Nerves they be Raw’- Anon, Whammy bar

here are some wee paintings I finished yesterday for my good friend Rory’s band The Raw Nerves… That is a small bumble bee (which I secretly collect) next to the paintings to give you an idea of scale. It is supposed to be a dead Indian which is why I painted it blue at first (it’s from one of their songs, I just make the pictures!) but in the end we stuck with the same colours as the original design with a little fluro…

These designs coming to a badge near you…if you’re lucky!

Die in a fire…

A little grim some might say…
Here is the first attempt and second attempt at producing album artwork I hope you can guess the genre! I didn’t get the gig as my work was HEAPS to similar to one of the giants (I unknowingly selected the same reference from a selection I’d been given…whoops!).
These two works are hand drawn with Indian ink and pigment liner on A3 water colour paper. I’ll take you best offer trades included!