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My word, 4 whole months since I last posted; I do apologise, but my new job has left me so drained I can barely pick up a brush!

I'm currently working on a portrait triptych and a novel, so my creative energies are being fully harnessed.

Sadly, my novel writing and anguished re-working of the same 3 canvases doesn't make for good reading (e-mail me if you disagree), so a dignified silence has been established Chez Nunn :p

Anyway.....hope to have something to show you all soon, even if it's just a work in progress.

Stay arty peeps!

More news!

Hi peeps, just a further update for all of you (loosely speaking) who show an interest in my work.
I've got about 3 pieces in progress at the minute, and there'll be a revision to 1 or 2 existing pieces, probably 'Elizabeta' and 'Autumn', although Autumn seems popular so I might leave it alone....we'll see what my mood is like at the time I decide to do something!

The 3 pieces in progress are:

An untitled landscape piece which is giving me the mother of all headaches;
A piece entitled 'Same crimes, different faces', which is proving a real test of my abilities;
and an icon painted in a fusion of Serbian Orthodox styles and my own.

So keep checking back, there may be a sudden flood of new work for your viewing pleasure!

And for all the LSA's out there, remember this: You don't need a pension until you start to smell like biscuits and piss :p

'Sarah'

Ker-ching! 2 paintings in one month, I feel quite the prolific artist at the minute!

This painting came about when my fiancee, Ana, was having coffee with her sister Aleksandra, who suggested to her that 'Herr James' (as she calls me) should paint her portrait.

After battling the wind whilst carrying this 1 metre by 1 metre canvas to the bus stop, I got the bugger home and got started. 2 weeks later, and here it is.

Artistic license, as ever, has been used, but both Aleksandra and Ana are happy with the result, so I can leave this one alone at last!

And if you're wondering why it's called 'Sarah' and not 'Aleksandra', that's because Ana wanted her parents to call her little sister Sarah, and when they didn't she decided she'd call her Sarah anyway, hahahahaha!

Angel of the Carnival

Wow, just noticed I haven't posted anything for almost a year! Busy does not do justice to how mad mylife has been over the last 12 months, but I won't go into that here.....

Anyway, here's my latest piece, 'Angel of the Carnival'. I went for a comic-book feel here, with strong lines and flat blocks of colour, and a sense of mystery, both with the main character and the location.

Hope you all like it (Ana, Jilli and Bapuji, hahahaha) and there IS more to come!

And apologies for the camera flash below the eye on the left of the picture :(

PAINTING NEWS!

Hi all, sorry about the lack of recent posts, but my attention has been monopolised by a commission portrait I'm working on and a few photography projects.

Now, the more regular (and observant) readers among you may have noticed my prices have gone; the inspiration for this was Radiohead's recent announcement that fans could pay what they thought their latest recording was worth instead of paying a fixed price. I only like a couple of their songs myself, but as a statement, I like it!

So, I'm going to use a similar principle from now on. If you'd like to buy a painting, make me an offer that is at least the delivery to your part of the world plus what you think the piece you would like is worth.

Happy shopping! (I hope)

'Autumn'

Here's my latest piece, 'Autumn'; I like to think of this as a contemporary view of the 3rd season, where so many rich colours, scents and memories are evoked by the falling of leaves from the trees.

Use of mixed media on this work creates an ever changing variety of textures, which only become apparent in certain lights/from certain viewing angles. It's also very tactile!

The St Valentine's Day Massacre

Hoped this painting would be the one where I really did have some control over it, alas, my organic style has thwarted me again!
So what started life as a clean, fresh, riot of colour and starkly contrasting shapes become an homage to the murders of 7 mobsters on the 14th of February 1929 in a Chicago warehouse....

And why 16 squares?

7 for the victims

5 for the perpetrators

3 for the ones that got away

And 1 for the dog that revealed the warehouse's secret......

16" x 16" box canvas - acrylic, ink, acetone and adhesive