" Top of the morning "

Mixed media painting on canvas, Nov 2013

Death on Highway 501

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIdc0NGumVc

Art O' Block would here like to give a short piece of memorandum to Lou Reed. My self and my barmy army of tapirs, giraffemen are all Lou Reed fans. The song Vicious is sometimes played softly while drawing late at night. Thanks Lou, you showed us to walk on the wild side.

As conquered by the last cold air
When Winter whistles in the wind
Alone upon a branch that's bare
A trembling leaf is left behind

 

Aleksandr Pushkin

 

 

The Giraffe Man

The Giraffe Man is a long necked passport less individual who is roaming around in time and space for the best possible discount.

Currently hanging in Engine Room Towhouse Gallery, Belfast

Night People

Dazzled by the bricks

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Konkret

Time to unload

"Feets of a rock band"

From the darkness we venture out into the wilderness so search for a possible task to feed us. Jerome is a bit like most of us, he has taken up the opportunity of selling discounted paint from his cart.

Night of the Tapir

Spellbound by the wisedom given by the tapir, he knows it all but he is just not up for talking too much about it.

29th of August.

I recently had the the following quote posted to me " In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”
― Ernst Fischer


I would therefore encourage you readers of this blog to comment and discuss the statement above, which I found  very nutrious and stimulating.

M.B 
 

"The Islands"

"Lost"

Mixed media painting on a wooden board,

2013

"Gary's Zulu dawn"

Ever felt locked up by your feelings, thoughts or your choice of options ? Two boxes keeping it all away while equally two dream clouds are trying to break up the boxes by informing of the much greater surroundings.

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Riverand Cosmosis

" A rather early painting depicting the spacious oceans of past and present impressions"