“Get In Line” - limited edition print 20x20cm, a limited signed/numbered edition of 25. a Giclée print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Bamboo paper
“Get In Line” - A print of a recent painting, the ninth in a new series of Electric paintings painted ahead of May’s Electric edition of the Art Car Boot Fair. Album covers interpreted and concluded during the time it takes to listen to that album (very loudly) just once.
We have here a limited edition print of the ninth in an ongoing series of Electric paintings, pieces painted during the time it takes to listen to a very electric album just once. I’m rather enjoying the challenge on this series so far, the series was started as a reaction to the "Electric" theme of the fair. Hopefully, all being well there will be a few more on the other side of the Art Car Boot Fair, I expect this series will go on beyond the fair..
Album covers interpreted and concluded during the time it takes to listen to that album just once. This is an interpretation of London band Atom Seed’s 1990 debut album “Get In Line”. Some of you might know I painted the original cover painting for Get In Line, I wasn’t sure how this one would go, it is a particularly personal album and piece of art. I was rather heavily involved in Atom Seed back there. I was thinking about the band and those days and the tours and the adventures this week, one year on from the awful news of the loss of frontman and good friend Paul Cunningham. I did do the original art for all their singles and their one album
So “Electric” is the theme of the fair this time and to me electric says kranked up guitars, the smell of over heating amps and loud loud rock music. Electric music isn’t polite, it isn’t quiet. Electric music is raw, visceral, music is emotional, something you can taste, that electricity in the air. The process involved throwing on a very electric album, turning it way up and while it plays (just once) painting the cover of that album on a fresh blank canvas, the paintings will take no longer than one play of the album, the painting had to be fast, alive, reactionary, instant, flawed, the paintings need to be as raw as the music.
The original electric album cover paintings will be available first at the real life Art Car Boot Fair event at Kings Cross (London) on May 14th, this on line event is happening on the same weekend. The print versions of the Electric series paintings are available first the online version the Art Car Boot Fair.
This print version is a limited signed/numbered edition of 25. a Giclée print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Bamboo paper, size 20x20cm / 8x8" (the image itself is approx. 7x7" and sits in the middle with a half-inch white boarder around it. “Bamboo is the world’s first digital fine art inkjet paper made from bamboo fibres. Especially suitable for warm-toned colour and monochrome prints, Bamboo really highlights the sensuality of images. 290 gsm, 90% bamboo fibre, 10% cotton, natural white, matt finish”
There's a small signature on the front with the number and full title and signature on the back.