Totally can't believe it's May already

Well oce again I have been pretty busy with work and quite a few things have now started to happen. Firstly lets start with the Stencil Festival which opens pretty soon now. Above is the flyer with all the necessary info you need should you be in Australia and able to make it which you totally should if you can. I still am pure juiced that I will be displaying my work at the festival and once again shouts out to JD and Satta.



After my road trip down to Bristol to hook up with the one and only Gav Strange @ Jam-Factory I recieved an email from skateboard legend Danny Wainwright who has kindly invited my to exhibit work in his shop Workshop in October. Workshop as you can see has plenty of other exhibitions this year and has had some amazing artists in the past so if you can then check out the shows but obviously save yourself for mine in October, there will be Tenant Lager and Haggis hopefully. I'll try to get a few sneaks done and a few skate decks.....speaking of which I have been adopted into a new family.



I was invited by Gav to be a designer for Xynthetic Skateboards creating hand made skate decks which I warmly accepted, if you checkout their site you can listen to a podcast I did with Gav and Mr Jonny Clooney after the Rebelo:06 show in Newcastle a few months back. Massive thanks to Gav and shouts out to all the Xynthetic family to whom I am looking forward to working with.



The weather up here in Scotland has been amazing which is typical seeing as how I'm pretty busy working on a piece keeping me hidden in my studio as the sun rises and sets, I'm not fussed cause I just love what I do too much to let the weather bother me and I'm excited about the painting that I'm working on at the moment which is starting to take shape. For once as well I have been working with some company in my studio, my dog who when leaves is covered in a coat of paper cuttings and like me he is happy to chill for hours in my studio.







I headed up north to see my girl on Friday and usually we get a pizza delivered and rent a film but not this time, we grabbed a fish supper and some Irn Bru and ate our healthy cuisine on the pier at Broughty Ferry which is in Dundee and admired the amazing view of the city and River Tay. Both of us are pretty busy with our work but the pier was the perfect remedy to unwind and totally chill to take a break from the work.



My good friend Azz was displaying work in the annual Glasgow Art Fair for which I met up with him to check it out. We hooked up on the final day of the show to find that Azz had sold 8 of his 10 pieces which was fantastic, Azz has also been having his work in The Times news paper body and soul sections recently which you should look out for. With his work pretty much sold out I took some photos of other pieces that I was fond of, check em.

Russell West



Ric Horner



Donald MacDonald



So congratulations to Azz for his success at the show, same time next year. But now after bringing you up to speed I gotta head off untill next time readers.

Peace

New Sneakers For The Pimps

I managed to finish off my sneaks for the Sneaker Pimps Tour 2007 this weekend and I decided to work on a pair of Puma Contacts again with my pattern aswell as tweaking a pair of Nike Court Force which I was planning on sending also for the tour but fancied instead keeping them to wear out and about so that people outsid eo f the interweb can have a peek a boo at my ideas for altering a pair of trainers. Below are the Nike trainers also sporting my pattern with different colours.

First of the month

Orite folks, I can hardly believe that we are on the forth month of the year already the past few months seem to have flown by. Above is my latest finished piece which I am pretty proud of titled 'Erika's big day' seeing as it is of the bride on her wedding day just before she enters the church, it is the largest piece I have done in a while being 90 x 120 (cm) which was good to work on due to the style of the vale. I'm still working on another commission which at the moment I don't want to give too much away for now.



I am very happy to also say that I am to be one of the many featured artist at this years Stencil Festival in Melbourne which started in February 2004 by Satta and JD Mittman which continues to grow in popularity every year and I am honoured to be a part of it for the first time.



As well as that I have been working on some new sneaks/trainers for the Sneaker Pimps Tour 2007 which will be touring around Asia and around America, and I should have the sneaks done by this week which I will obviously post on display.

So as always I gotta be getting back to work as things are continuously happening so as always stay tuned for more updates.