BRAVE NEW WORLD. Once there was a vision of a brave new world, the Elmhursts made it real, in that short space between the wars. the future was revealed. A new way to educate and fix all the pain of the past, making a modernist utopia, after the first wars blast. A state of enlightenment,…
LIVING ON THE HIGH WIRE. You’re walking a tightrope over the street, people look up and say, just one slip and he loses his grip, I don’t want to clear the mess away. You’re running from strangers dressed in black, you can’t seem to get away, you just hope that you get lost in the…
POSTER 3
http://www.saatchionline.com/showdown/view/showdown/16/artist/160705 this link will get you to the piece I have submitted for the Saatchi online “showdown” entitled “Painted Faces”. My piece is a mixed media painted collage of Amy Winehouse with a basis of newspaper cuttings taken from a newspaper the day after her death. If you like the work you can even give me…
Selected works from my 2013 matchbox series are now for sale on the ArtSlant international web site. http://www.artslant.com .
We all need a hero. St George is still in the running. G
This picture is from my labels series of works, soon to be exhibited for the first time in a Gallery in Teignmouth Devon, in November 2013. I will keep you posted. The label I used was attached to a shirt my wife bought me from a posh shop behind the Cathedral in Florence, Italy. The…
Thinking of you. Not much more to do or say, can’t avoid it anyway, just to say, that it is true, I am thinking of you. FGD 2013.
SMILE. Smile, for you have earned the right, have courage in the dead of night, take two deep breaths, grab them from the heavy air, smile and you are almost there. Smile and all will be OK, believe, and you can win the day. Prepare, but not too much, beware the palace of nonesuch,…
Casa Batlo. This masterpiece is made up of every dream we ever had, reflected sun on tesserae is the fight that Gaudi won. Since Franco felt he held the rains, what has happened then till now? the building has become again the symbol for the free in Spain. So truth and beauty rise again with…
fgdavisblog 