I’ve got this long running pain in my abdomen and it occurred to my doctor that it could be a prostate gland issue. The next part of the story is so predictable. The patient lowers his trousers and the doctor prods inside him with his...
Clearly Superman wears red and blue because he's saving America. It's probably the case with Spiderman also, although because he is covered in webs there's a lot of black in his costume too. Amazingly, for a man covered in spiderwebs he’s not at all threatening by...
Johannesburg gives us many gifts but we never fully appreciate them. The most simple being a place to call home. But home means different things to different people. Johannesburg is as defined by prosperity, ambition, envy, and seekers of opportunity as it is by innocent losers,...
There isn't a dog on earth that doesn't understand the process of art making. That's why they don't let up while one is working. On Instagram I saw a meme that asked 'is your cat trying to murder you?' Well that's the domain of cats. Mine...
[caption id="attachment_1674" align="alignnone" width="997"] Reprodcution of Artists Works[/caption] Sometimes, when I start a creating I think of Mopheus’s words from The Matrix: ‘Welcome to the desert of the real.’ I enjoy the fact that it’s a vintage statement that’s become part of our popular movie culture,...
Well it's definitely not Bambi in the headlights -- and Alice has become the headlights! I hope the painting Headlights to the Dawn will be a celebrated for giving new energy to some very dear old friends. In the painting I ask you to imagine that...
There is a print in which I got two random pictures to talk to each other in a meaningful way. The randomness was not really just like throwing two completely unrelated things together into one frame, because they were things that we know are related...
There are two ways of looking at the minefield of pop art. On the one hand it’s seen as an art of high risk-taking by mavericks who’ve escaped the shackles of the politically correct art set. On the other it is perceived to be a...
When dark cynicism engulfs the world then it is the duty of an artist to face up to reality along with everyone else. It has been over a year that I, as an artist, have not been able to exhibit or have friends in the...
If I think of my own journey with comic book characters, I remember a young boy growing up in the suburbs eager to know what would happen to me in a place full of conflict and unresolved issues. I buried myself in the colorful dramas on...