76 x 1.7cm
x 76cm
This is an artwork which I tried challenging myself to paint and finish in a week along with 10 others. I didn't have the rest of my life organised enough to achieve the goal so half of this was done in that week and the rest later. The idea for this artwork shaped itself as the originally intended to be a purple spotty horse like my other surreal animals although when I came back to it I didn't feel it had enough substance to it. When I finished the painting I had my pen pal on the phone and asked him what he saw an he mentioned the background, so I ran with that idea that someone may look at this then focus on the background. Since I have holes in things all the time in my digital artworks I carried that over here and decided they're bullet holes. The painting started to form the media style opinion of after the races which made me feel it needed an audience so I painted the statues in the background representing the polarising opinions people have on the races and the consequences after. The horse intentionally has no reflection or shadow. This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
I’ve made digital artworks in the past which are mini towns floating in the air on a giant doughnut, or a giant ice-cream. This time thought I wanted to use a Beetle, like my ‘Chocolate Ice-car’ artwork and a mix of the idea I used in ‘Pear House’ where I used clouds as stairs. Lately I’m enjoying making the digital artworks more detailed and this is the result.
61 x 1.7cm
x 76.5cm
A while back I felt sad and since the universe dumped an excessive amount of talent this way, I decided to paint a portrait of my sadness to make other people feel sad when they stop and watch the artwork. This isn’t a self portrait. Since a smile is contagious, so is everything else. I added a severed hand, the idea originally spawned from a recently sold artwork ‘The Decomposed Musician’ then I decided it’s representative of the memories that keep their grip. Floating fruit in the background representing my art goals as unfocused 3D glasses since being sad makes it hard to focus on them. Birds stuck in the wall, unlike all my other bird artworks where they fly freely and a frame around her head as women are strongly influenced to keep from confronting issues and sit pretty, until it’s too late to communicate. With the hand holding the frame in place and the vines pulling it back slightly. This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is a follow up from the artwork before this, ‘The Tree’ where I also continued on an idea from the artwork before that with springs, so this time I wanted to make an artwork with spring leaves all around. Half way through creating it I decided to attach them to my motorcycle, in motion.
45 x 1.7cm
x 45.5cm
This is one of the later artworks during my 80 artworks project and intentionally simple. I thought about how every generation is so different yet we all go through the same stages and one day I won’t know how to use the modern technology (that probably wont happen judging my grandma though, maybe something else). We’re all the same, so I wanted to paint a row of armchairs sliding across a hallway down toward a window all watching the same sight. I initially intended to make the chairs look worn, time didn’t allow for that one. This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
60 x 1.5cm
x 40cm
This is a digital artwork I created after finishing my 80 artworks and as I reflected on the finished pieces I saw ‘Tree Lineup’ and decided to create a tree artwork since I tend to steer clear of them.
46 x 3cm
x 35.5cm
I'm often surrounded by women who are have boys on their mind 24/7, I don't really comprehend how they have so much mental bandwidth for the topic although after years of listening to their stories that seem almost parallel to the previous or another woman's story I recently noticed a pattern where they always tell me their fantasies of the future. They'll get married, the guy will support them with XYZ, live happily ever after and she'll have less problems (as if it's connected). It clicked for me, I finally realise that this is their survival instinct, if these women I'm meeting focus on one topic, the men, instead of various topics such as career and independence then their future is sorted. This is my piece of mind and I can now justify why some women can be so obsessed, instead of thinking to myself in a critical manner. When I put this thought into a picture in my mind, I see a glass woman with a man trapped inside as her brain. Pink dots on the floor which also cover the glass statues, blending into the surrounding environment. The trapped men have no clothes because clothes would give them identity and from my point of view it doesn't look like the personality or anything individual about the men seems to matter. I put a man escaped in the background for giggles. This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones (not framed), has a certificate of authenticity and always sold with hooks ready to hang!
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
I decided to create another digital artwork with a doughnut in it since I haven’t created one in a while. While creating it I decided on a new idea, somewhat inspired by my ‘Raffe Popper’, but different and include the springs I’d just created using Blender. This artwork achieves something I’ve always wanted to show, movement so I really like the outcome.
60 x 3cm
x 60cm
This is an appropriation of the artwork 'The Guitar Player' by Jean-Baptiste Greuze 1755-60 71 x 56cm. I haven't seen the original in real life although managed to copy most of it from a small book. The appropriation is based on the object that the guitar player is holding, in the original he holds an actual guitar and in my appropriation he holds a computer with Logic Pro X open which shows tracks; differentiating between then and now. Mix between romanticism and surrealism. This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones and always sold with hooks ready to hang!
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
60 x 1.5cm
x 40cm
This is a continuation from my ‘Springhood’ artwork where I created a pear that’s a spring shape but also melts like icing. This time I wanted it to be the centrepiece and make it conceptual. While I created it I decided that it was such an interesting shape I wanted to hide it behind a bird. Playing with the idea that a bird really would get in the way of a view in real like, especially cockatoos, and adding to the mystery of what’s behind the bird.
92 x 3cm
x 76cm
You never know what’s going on in someone’s life when you meet them. We also live in a culture where online presence plays a big factor in keeping up with the Joneses. I wanted to paint the idea that in many cases someones putting up an image of squeaky clean perfect duck and underneath the water is actually a bunch of brown feathers frantically paddling away keeping things together. This artwork is a close friends favourite, it really resonates with her and she ended up snapping it up. She would always look at it and cross her fingers it ended up in her home and it eventually did! This artwork is oil based, is one of my hand-stretched ones and sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is an artwork I made for giggles and out of curiosity in how it would look to have a multiverse where everything is a spring. I did it and this is how it turned out!
92 x 3cm
x 92cm
This painting came to mind after I went test driving cars and the guy almost refused to give me the keys because the car was a manual.. He literally said “No no you're a girl you can't” emphasising his perspectives. I thought about it and this sexism actually hasn't died at all, often people hide their sexism behind phrases such as “It's nice to see a woman xyz” as if we're genetically disadvantaged yet socially acceptable. I have a motorbike which makes sexism incredibly noticeable from my perspective although I feel I have all the freedom in the world. The sheer material is the “freedom”. Oil Based, hand stretched, signed with a certificate of authenticity and ready to hang.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
While colouring in the ‘Car Lessons’ page in the Paintings 2022 edition of my colouring in book series I decided to create a digital artwork where I showed a car unravelling like it does in the artwork that’s shown the colouring in book. The artwork didn’t go to plan after executing the car slinky so I changed the scene to include an ice cream statue with a ladder on it. After that I wanted to include more so it felt busy. Less staged.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is an artwork I thought up during my 80 artworks challenge although didn’t have time to fit it within the project since I wanted the artwork to become quite detailed. I recently created an artwork, ‘Smokey Bird’, which is what sparked the idea. Since birds fly around so quick I wanted to create an artwork with heaps of birds shooting around the page. It’s not quite what I imagined but hits the target!
76 x 3cm
x 50.5cm
I’m not a fan of the algorithms controlling my entertainment and ended up watching a bunch of old movies from the 90’s and 2000’s. We all already know that movies these days will likely suck in comparison, then adding in the internet where people upload reaction videos daily for the sake of uploading and people watch them for the sake of having background noise. We aren’t truly entertained here. There’s a few movies you can watch dozens.. maybe hundreds of times and still be entertained since they’re so well written. LOTR for example, or I ended up watching Impromptu many times. Then I decided to paint Hugh Grant statues as if each statue has a turn on stage and each time we notice something different about how the production was delivered. In the background behind the wall is the death of entertainment where a bunny on it’s last legs crawls out of the horror of braindead entertainment. This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is a digital artwork I first created after my 80 artworks project had wrapped up and I now have a new approach to make artworks far more intricate than before. I sparked up an idea to create a cloud exploding cartons of milk, as I created the artwork it then changed as it came to fruition. I wanted to leave the artwork having created something using a photo I hadn’t used in a while, so instead of the milk, I ended up using the turtle. I referenced anime sleeping by popping bubbles on it. Check out the behind the scenes video for the making! Or time lapse…
40 x 3cm
x 39.5cm
I recently had to update my website and all my digital artworks into metal prints which meant hours of looking at my artworks then when moving onto another activity it felt like I'd left another world so I painted the feeling. The wall print is a background of a self portrait I created many years ago and I have a theme of pears so I kept them in, I also low-key painted the door missing. This artwork is hand-stretched, hooks will be attached on sale and sold with a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
In Autumn I enjoy seeing lines of trees and the leaves change throughout the year, so from that thought I wanted to create a line of surreal trees where their leaves are different objects from my digital artworks.
60 x 3.5cm
x 90cm
Earlier on in my career I thought that competitions were the way to go and this artwork was one of the first ones I created for an entry. I later on used this artwork in a digital artwork to stretch my creativity and see what I can do with it. This artwork isn’t one of my hand-stretched ones and sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is the final digital artwork of my 80 artworks project! So I decided to create a giraffe as a party popper. This idea was sparked by my ‘Doughnut Town’ and in the future I continue these tiny things in digital artworks. This is still my favourite of them.
48 x 3cm
x 47cm
Sometimes when I'm painting I have a bit of a rest next to the easel as a mini break, before I painted this artwork I took one of those breaks and as I looked at the ceiling wondered when my career will take off. So I started painting the painting as if the face is emerging from the ground and when I flipped it to add detail I changed my mind and decided it would be better as the roof, as if someone's looking down, watching back. I painted the ladder hanging from the roof as if it's painting the face which is watching. Painting the career I'm hunting for. Oil based, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity!
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
I decided to create this artwork during my 80 artworks challenge and in my surroundings sat my painting ‘Watching the Boats Sail Past’ which shows a bunch of boats which are doughnuts. I’ve tried plenty of times in the past to either paint a digital artwork or digitally create a painting and they never work out, the two genres are different. So here I am trying again! This ended up entirely different yet they both look good enough for me to feature though doughnut boats again. They still don’t cross over, I just now have two entirely different styles of doughbots, I’m not sure if this is the most successful attempt to cross over the genres either. The final artwork reminds me of a video game and the boss is a moon. Check out the art venture video of this one, there’s more documented on the making there.
50 x 1.5cm
x 40cm
I originally had a very different idea in mind for this painting, if you watch the video you can see I began to paint a couple ideas and landed on this one. This was a lockdown challenge painting (I completed a colouring of my book, a digital art or painting) and I reckon if I weren't painting it as part of my challenge it would have been one of those paintings that takes weeeeeks. So I named it 'Get a Grip' because I certainly didn't have a grip on this one, although I'm satisfied with how it turned out. My mum see's it as ladders to heavan, I see a blobs not being contained by the wings and dripping down into the unknown. Oil Based, hand stretched, signed and ready to hang with a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
I have an older artwork, ’Couchmellow’ that I felt like returning to now that I cleaned up the photo of my couch for the previous artwork ‘Elephant Moving Home’. I liked how in ‘Couchmellow’ I changed the colours of each cushion. The artwork also slightly draws the burning couch from ‘Couch Tree’. Alongside inserting what came to mind when creating the artwork. I included the tiny flying cars from various previous artworks and wanted to turn the couch into a bicycle just for the sake of it.
75 x 3.5cm
x 50cm
In 2018 I did my very first ten artworks in ten weeks challenge, something I ended up doing until the point where I could continually create and artwork a week then steps up to eventually do eighty artworks in seventy-nine days. This was a follow up on an artwork that was very well received, ‘Smudged Elephant’ and I was finding my style at the time, which didn’t end up being this style. This artwork is il based, isn’t one of my hand-stretched ones and sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is a digital artwork I created out of curiosity in what it would look like raining laser fruit. I also wanted to create something using the big wave, a night time scene and my fruit images. This was the final result which soon turns into another artwork.
92 x 2.5cm
x 61.5cm
This is an artwork I created out of despise for people purchasing canvas prints. You can see a bulldozer dumping identical canvas prints into a pit with a tree influencing that and setting it a light. Canvas prints are made of plastic and MDF, they're built to be disposable and I don't consider them art. The economy pours so much money into this fast-turning-trash and I'm not convinced it's because the consumers see meaning in these “abstract” prints of splotches. I believe canvas prints contribute considerably to the yearly trash load and play a huge part in creating a tough environment for artists to thrive. This is not one of my hand stretched artworks, nor framed, although is ready to hang. Oil based.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
I wanted to create a car in a car while working on my 80 artworks project as something unique although now that some time has passed and I’m recording the artwork in my spreadsheet, this was probably a subconscious continuation from my ‘Road Trip’ artwork and a variation of ‘Car Stack’ from many years ago. Since I decided to create a night digital artwork it definitely turned out a tad different to what I expected!
38 x 2cm
x 76cm
Recently before painting this cactus I’d found myself a silver torch cacti and it’s beautiful. I’d painted cacti before as the cactus version of a stick figure human in different concepts. I’d also recently mastered how to visually create a laser in both paint or digitally from scratch so I wanted to combine these. The idea of cacti embodying a little personification and the lasers made me want to paint EDM, electronic dance music, which I was also a little bit into at the time. This artwork is oil based, is one of my hand-stretched ones and sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is an artwork I created during my 80 artworks and the idea came from two previous ideas. One being ‘Alpaca Wall’ and the other ‘Camouflage Partyraffant’. I’ve always appreciated the transparency of the wall in ‘Camouflage Partyraffant’ and tried to replicate it quite a few times. While creating the artwork I wanted to channel some dreamy vibes, the window’s calling.
61 x 32cm
x 61cm
I made this painting originally thinking about rock balancing and tomatoes popped into mind. So I painted some stacked tomatoes in a pink desert. I love ox heart tomatoes so I chose those type to paint.. Originally thinking to call it Ox Heart Tomatoes and changed my mind, playing with the idea of a balanced diet, I'm never not up for a plate of ox heart tomatoes... I could also look at this painting all day! This is one of my hand stretched artworks, sold with a certificate of authenticity and ready to hang. I've also decided to put it in my 2021 Paintings colouring in book! All yours to colour in.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is one of my 80 artworks and when I began it I thought I’d quickly wrap the bird in leaves although that wasn’t quick and it didn’t look good (I recommend watching the time lapse for this one) I then changed my mind on what I wanted to create and at the time I thought the concept of turning the bird into half smoke would be too simple. After creating it I decided this artwork took a very good turn.
50 x 1.7cm
x 40.5cm
A short while before making this artwork I decided I wanted some insight into religions so I visited different places of worship during their usual worship time as a fly on the wall experience. I originally planned on visiting a Christian church, an Islam mosque and a Buddhist temple. Unfortunately this is a more exclusive activity than I thought and couldn’t figure out the Buddhist schedule. I visited an Anglican church and an Islam mosque and took part in their services. Ironically I went in expecting what the media portrayed, being in a western society we are convinced that muslims are dangerous and people of Christ are welcoming. Now flip that perspective to imagine what I experienced. I sat in the Anglican Church biting my tongue listening to the bible being recited on how they laid waste and destroyed the other beliefs scrolls (I personally hate burning literature) then praised blindly believing that God will save you. I asked, “Don’t you think you need to solve your own problems for God to open up opportunities instead of just prey?”. They preached that you are always right as well. I left feeling somewhat violated as if they’re raising narcs in that particular church. I then visited Islam and joined in with the prayers, this time they preached getting your act together, fasting is approaching and you need to be prepared, they preached contacting your loved ones and checking in. A fantastic 30m pep talk anyone could do with. The people were welcoming and I left feeling like the media wrongly portrays Muslims… or perhaps the individual journalists are prejudice. But one thing was true with both experiences. Their God/ Allah is the one true God/ Allah. Yours is wrong and they are both worshiping the right way. So this artwork is the two religions talking to each other debating who’s right. The Anglican has a severed arm from their preaching and the Muslim is put off by their actions. This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
During my 80 artworks project my digital artworks and paintings overlap as I try to interchange the styles between them. This is one of those artworks where I try to recreate a painting that sold. The impression that I have where the two don’t swap very well still stands as the painting is much more capturing than this version.
40.5 x 3cm
x 40.5cm
A while back I watched a YouTube video about the Victorian Era and learnt that the record player had been invented in 1887 and everyone enjoyed music in their own homes… Essentially the death of the career as a musician being a normal occupation, resulting in the career seeming unattainable to many. This mimics my opinions on art, so many artists opt to sell prints of a painting not thinking that perhaps if they didn’t offer that then buyers would look at real artworks (and prints of hand made artworks are blasphemous). I decided to paint an artwork similar to my ‘Cello’ artwork in terms of the scenery although chose to paint the cello as a pear beginning to rot, alongside rotting grapes and the slightly bloody hand and ear of a musician, plugged by the grape. By limiting musical artists ability to make money through their passion are you ‘biting the hand’ that feeds you? I enjoyed this artwork as I believe I pulled of the gore with tact. This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is the artwork I made just before the one I released the week before this one, I chose to share them in reverse order since this ones a tad more cryptic to understand what you’re looking at, not having seen the other first. While I worked on my 80 artworks I looked around at other peoples art and saw how people used clouds as part of their objects. Something I’ve done before (‘Ice Cream Town’ as an example) but I haven’t turned the motorbike into one which means it’s time to do so! I then created the other because I thought it should be done.
60 x 1.7cm
x 50cm
This is a painting I thought of while listening to the song 'White Flag' by Dido. The main part of the painting is a sunken sail which takes the shape of a white flag not catching wind, I made it to represent a fallen relationship while the other boats sail in the clouds. Turned out to be a pretty grim painting although it doesn't seem to reflect my perception at the moment, I think it’s pretty nice. This artwork is oil based, is one of my hand-stretched ones and sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
I made this artwork after the one I share next however I thought it needs to be shared first since the next one will make more sense being the second one. As I worked through my 80 artworks I had a list of things I wanted to create and I couldn’t decide which version was better so I made both. This is the first motorcycle made of clouds of the both.
50 x 3cm
x 60cm
This is an artwork I decided to paint when it became clear that women are taking jabs at me for my shoes. Everyone, except Australians (with Australian backgrounds) know that Australians dress poorly. My background is Bulgarian and Bulgarians dress well. I subconsciously did what my ancestors do and dress well, despite not being raised in the country, as I grow older that involves heels. Australian women even go so far as to say to my face “It’s not normal, you’re being weird” specifically speaking about the fact that my outfit that day had been complimented with heels. It’s essentially racism without realising there’s a cultural difference going on here. I question why my shoes bother these women so much to have to insult me, so I painted them, and one day they will hang on someones wall with pride. As I painted this artwork I learnt that Mars also removed the heels off the green m&m, so I painted it under mine. This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is one of the later of my 80 artworks and since I have my ‘Giraffe Turn’ artwork and ‘Elephant Turn’ it seemed fitting to add the alpaca to the series since realising I probably had a slightly larger photo than what I previously thought. I cleaned up the photo and whipped out this artwork in an hour.
76.5 x 3cm
x 51cm
I partially painted it out of annoyance that I was asking someone to be respectful and they turned the situation around on one of their collection of four mental illnesses (a well functioning human in society). I decided to paint this artwork during my 80 artworks as I began to take note of how there’s a trend to label all quirks or even human nature as a mental disorder… Hypochondria in a nut shell, although the general mass doing this don’t seem to recognise this. Since the movement to become accepting of mental illness turned into a movement to encourage it. If I really wanted to “have” a mental illness I can rely on the trusty movement and a broadening definition to psychiatrist hop until I get that Pokemon. I thought up the idea to paint a horse skeleton and one hoof, the horse brandishes the hoof as if it’s proud and the rest of the horse isn’t complete unless it wears the skin of a mental illness, “Look at this part of me, I’m such a novelty”. At this point in time I’d painted quite a few cactuses pretty well and wanted to include them as a symbol in the background. The left one flops over because you haven’t watered your garden being so distracted. The middle one stands tall hidden behind the horse and the last one is organised into tiny cactuses, evenly spaced, floating up into the air. These remind me of the environmental expression of a mental illness where your items are where they’re supposed to be and need to stay exactly as they are. The water also plays in this left to right timeline, the left needs some attention, you need to pour the water properly. The middle turns into the horses soul and evaporated then the right is well organised dripping like rain over the clouds. I began the idea of a stripped skeleton before looking up what a horse skeleton looked like and to be frank I didn’t think they’d look so odd. I’d started the concept and ran with it. There are more easter eggs in this artwork for you to decipher. This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is a digital artwork from my 80 challenge and I wanted to incorporate the photo of a milk carton I had which I only used once in the other ‘Malk’ artwork. This time I cleaned up the photo so it didn’t look so generic and from there the artwork became different flavoured milk… I could have done blueberry and food flavours although as a surrealist I didn’t go that way. Here’s your milk.
53 x 3cm
x 41cm
This artwork is a sequel to the painting I shared before this one, it’s a horse representing a human seeking out a diagnosis in order to feel whole. This is the horse with its diagnosis, the horse proudly stands front and centre showing off it’s new skin. The previous artwork showed just a skeleton with cactuses in the background, this time, since I like to use cactuses to represent people this ones turned full cactus instead of regaining the horse shin showed in the previous artwork. Instead of the items in the landscape forming a slow progression to being organised this horses environment have everything perfectly in check. The rain falls perfectly across the perfectly spaced clouds and perfectly placed plants across a perfectly wavy ground. This horse is delusional, you can’t organise life so perfectly and it’s not a horse anymore. I placed a hidden bunny in the background since I was deep in the art making habit hole at this point in time. This painting is one of my 80 artworks and a challenge to keep within the time frame! This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
I decided to create this artwork as cockatoos sometimes visit me and genuinely watch me colour in… I like to think they know they’re in some of my artworks. I tend to have a coffee when colouring in (I have a colouring in book series you should check out) so this artwork is coffee with the birds. Something I’m not doing intentionally is when I’m given instructions I tend to take the instructions as is but give it a creative twist. So if you wanted me to give you an image of coffee with birds, this is what you get.
80 x 3cm
x 30cm
In 2021 I shared an artwork named, ’Chocland’ which sold quite fast. A few people mentioned it when I discussed what artworks to include in my next colouring in book edition. A few weeks before completing this artwork I received a commission request and the week prior I’d coincidentally shared an artwork named ‘Commission’ expressing my disinterest in commissions. So naturally I said no, however when someone requests one I ask what they saw in the original artwork and to share their views. Then I’ll make something after a little research and if they like it, it’s up for grabs. If not, we all move on. I was told that the artlover saw synthwave in the original artwork and appreciated how unique it was in terms of the description of a commonplace object. They really enjoyed the composition. Sometimes an artwork takes you somewhere else, and if that’s what this is for them then I wanted to play on that instead of conveying a concept. I had a rule, red or green sky and no pears. If you watch the making video of this artwork you’ll see I began with green aiming to play on my recent artwork ‘Surrealists and Psychology’, then after talking to someone about this new artwork I changed it to red. That was probably a positive turn of events doing something entirely opposite to all except one artwork of mine, ‘Cheese’. Someone mentioned it’s not Synthwave without the car, I tried looking up which specific car but it seems to vary. Instead I added a reference to a car I once owned which I lined with indicators. I added the typical block sun, but dismantled. I’m personally always listening to 80’s rock instead of 80’s Synthwave and as I created the artwork I watched the Scorpions ‘Send Me an Angel’ with the red sky and square mountains so I added them as a sneaky link to a different 80’s world, with a tiny guitarist on top. I also have a few artworks synesthesia where I link shapes to sounds. During my hunt I found the beats consistent so I placed a row of cacti on the chocolate squares. Lasers that reflect the typical Synthwave blue triangle and just as I wrapped up the atrwork I learned the art lovers name so I found a reference in the Synthwave world and added it in. I did add a pear… Watch the video for spoilers. This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This idea came to mind after creating my artwork ‘Road Trip’ and decided instead of having one low lying clouds I wanted many. As the artwork unfolded it became what it is now. I really enjoy this artwork as it really shows off the kind of surrealism I want to share.
40 x 1.7cm
x 50cm
I read a book shortly before painting this painting, ‘Genius, The Natural History of creativity by Hans Eysenck’ and on page 127 I read this line; “Genius is only found in males (for whatever reason!). Illustrations abound. In the list of geniuses studied by Cox, (1926) there are no women.” Let’s take note of the somewhat surprise from Eysenck as if he alludes to the reason actually being gender. So I’ll take a moment to elaborate the times. Women only won women’s rights in the 60’s and I doubt it was an easy road after that, sexism is still evident deep within culture so I don’t see women in the 60’s suddenly being accepted into jobs automatically without prejudice. The book itself points out that the definition of genius requires eminence in the field of your career. Women weren’t allowed careers so there you go, mystery solved. Even though another 60 years has passed we need to take into account that’s just your grandmother, or mothers generation who fought for equal rights and I bet there were some too busy raising young children to take it seriously. So you have your generation to be the first without prejudice in obtaining a job and on your way to the definition of genius. I personally argue it’s not a fresh start as in male dominated careers women report others having the opinion they won the job just please the stats and don’t receive the same respect amongst colleagues. As I read on it seemed as if the women who were eminent such as Marie Curie or Emily Dickinson must have just been considered very good. So the prejudice doesn’t just lie in not being able to find avenues to become eminent, but then being recognised as eminent. Following that thought I decided to whip out a female Einstein. She wears his jacket and the buttons lie the way a woman’s jacket does. That subtitle on page 127 named “Gender”, seems to have a misprint as I read “Prejudice in gender”. This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
Since creating my fluffy lego pieces I also wanted to merge that idea with a seperate idea to create a chessboard using the photos that I turned into statues for the artwork ‘Grabbing Art Supplies’. I came across a challenge in this artwork as with photo editing the angle of the photo is what you have to work with.
