There are new paintings all the time, there;s never time to post about them, there are always new pieces in progress. The Electric Paintings series goes on, it started as a response to the Electric theme of last May’s 2022 Art Car Boot Fair here in London, thirteen paintings of very electric albums were produced ahead of the fair (along with limited edition prints of those 13 paintings). Fast interpretations of album covers painted during the time it takes to play the album in question just once. I am being very picky about what I paint, I do address this here on the page where you can find all 21 of the pieces painted so far. The series has gone on beyond the Art Car Boot Fair and I see no reason why it should stop, I;’ rather enjoying revisiting these albums and in some cases getting to know them again.

“Electric” is the thing, 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. Album covers interpreted and concluded during the time it takes to listen to that album just once. Maybe, as the series progresses be some of the album covers I’ve painting aren’t what you’d consider full on “rock” albums, now that I;m exploring the idea more it isn’t all about noise and it certainly isn’t about just painting my favourite albums, I’m looking for that something, that “electric” thing (didn’t Diamond Head sing about it?), I’m looking for that thing and I am being very picky…

This weekend interpretations of Primal Scream’s Screamadelica and an album from The Wedding Present (that I might have originally bought just for the cover back there in my youth) were painted, it goes on…