Alice

Recently I've been wrapped up painting again. I got into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland... Cos I have an amazing daughter called Alice (and another amazing daughter - Maddy)... As a kid this was acceptable Surrealism. Delivered culture...At the time I didn't really like it. I wasn't a painter / illustrator then. It did my head in. I was cool...into The Ramones, Pot Noodles and Woodpecker cider... Halcyon days.


(Acceptable) Surreal stuff was already in my world...Charlie and The Chocolate Factory...The Wizard of Oz...Brigadoon....Banana Splits... Most of Disney's output was based upon Surrealism meeting folk lore stories. We grew up with that. Old culture passed down. I applaud that. That's the tit I sucked.

Then I grew up. I loved Dali. Then Giger... Safonkin...Zar... Persson... etc


Right now, as a Surrealist / Conceptual artist I now wonder how this form of art becomes accepted. With the examples I present , the answer seems to be: over time....


That's fine. I can enjoy fame dead. I can endure no fame dead too...

Back soon...

www.acrylicsandoils.com