Sidling up to the Big Boys in London’s Cork Street, W1.
Setting a Funky Stage:
Question: How do you stand out in an ermin lined street with elegant, exquisite, sooper-polite art emporiums? (shush!, please do NOT breathe).
Solution: Go full on rebel and raid your home prop department.
And yes I did get creative with old golf bags, splattering them with paint, tennis racquets, cricket bats. Basically any inanimate vaguely sporting object was fair game.
Penalty: End of show and the final whistle blows leaving a football stadium’s worth of clearing and cleaning up to do.
But, buoy (groan, sorry) was it worth it!!! Oh, and the paintings did sell too.
Calming the background and floating the image:
These epic footballers were part of another show in 2007 at Nicola Smith Fine Art. Her beautiful Georgian home in Surrey acted as a backdrop for 12 action paintings where she had a purpose built ‘gallery’ room and guests were able to envisage these sitting in their own homes.
Brazilian Ronaldinho or “O Bruxo” - the wizard.
Acrylic, Oil and spray paint on deep box canvas. Size 90 × 60 cm.
SOLD: painted on request.
Zizou Zidane and his “Ballon d’Or” of 1998.
Acrylic, Oil and spray paint on deep box canvas. Size 90 × 60 cm.
SOLD.