Stoke Newington Show Part1

ATTENTION TO DETAIL

Stoke Newington Studios. 12^th September – 8^th October

Unit B, 3 Victorian Grove, N16 8EN  (Mon-Sat 9am-6pm)

Canvas Prep in the Sun

 Sneak A Beak

This is a complete painting from a sketch I did over a year ago, it has been waiting for me to finalize it. This show also was a good push to create a series of work that links the themes, colors and style. I enjoyed looking up a mix of esoteric and old astrology illustrations that I added in between the clouds.

I sneaked in a bit of Salvador Dali influence in the hanging pyramids, as more for me a show of respect and appreciation to his work, that has been a great influence since I can remember

The Golden Egg in the Pyramid

This is The Cosmic Egg, the First Born,called Eros (‘Love’), the Universal Being, the creator of all individual expressions of life Eros shines as a great Light—the Light of the Universe.This is from another painting I did couple years ago (more links and story behind it on this previous post)

Sneak A Beak of process

 Heart Locker

The main inspiration came from the next piece you will see below, music is a great inspiration while I do my work and I wanted to dedicate one piece to it. I loved adding the old decorative elements and as well as basically just painting an object on its own. It might be to small to notice, but it supposed to be a microphone in the middle top of the locker, with the sun shining behind it. And the trumpet and bass bellow also comes from the next piece. The last bit I added to this was the 'Sun' stripes coming behind the locker, as its been a focus of mine to paint thinking a lot on the source of 'Light' to find out how to shade and get depth in an image . I thought it fitted well and also it looked to plain floating in space on its own. 

 Bee A Queen

Erykah Badu - Appletree 

I'd like to dedicate this to all the children 

I have some food in my bag for you 

Not the edible food the food you eat no 

Perhaps some food for thought 

Since knowledge is infinite 

It has infinitely fell on me so um..

...

.See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit

My Granny told me that when I was only a youth

I don't walk around trying to be what I'm not

I don't waste my time trying to get what ya got

I work at pleasin' me

Cause I can't please you and that's why I do what I do

My soul flies free like a willow tree

Doo wee doo wee doo wee

And if you don't want to be down with me, you don't want to pick from

My apple tree 

And if you don't want to be down with me, you just don't want to be

Down

to be Continued....

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London Summer 2013

Summer and chill, mostly been drawing and sketching, started painting for the show in september, at Stoke Newington Studios.

My Plus One LDN shoot

Intense Art at Tuff Gong

It's been a while since I've updated my blog, I even forgot to post the last Jamaica post. Apologize for such delays, but now it's time for some massive and quick updates for you!

We were lucky again, getting contact with Tuff Gong International in Kingston. Don't think I've realised yet that we painted there, so unbelievable! We timed it fairly well, as the same day was Robert Nesta Marleys EarthStrong day! So we got to enjoy some nyabinghi drums and proper rasta chanting at the Bob Marley Museum! Even the likes of Sizzla was in the middle of it all chanting away!

The painting took about 3 days, and I think i managed to get a sun stroke while at it. When we were almost finished mister Craigy T. from T.O.K came along checking our work out. He immediately hooked us up with TvJamaica and the program Intense for an Interview (here)

Even-tough it is a girl, the lady we were in contact with wanted it to say Mama Africa, well she certainly has the hands of a working woman.

Masai

Nice Up the Walls:

Craigy T - T.O.K

Black Scorpio- Kingston

This is probably the quickest response we got to our initial emailing to link our project and finding walls. Jack (Black) Scorpios daughter, Tashima, instantly flowed with our ideas and saw similar visions with the project, and welcomed it with open arms. Unfortunately for us, but lucky for her, she was away on holiday when we arrived. However, Jack and Spyder (his son) were equally open about Nicin’ up the island. (more about Black Scorpio on my previous post: here.)

 

  First weekend in Kingston, Jack kindly invited us along to Rebel Salute, an amazing night-day long reggae gig. When we came back the second time, he took us to Bob Marley Tribute concert held by the Marley ‘kids’ in Trench Town. We were lucky seeing the likes of Damian Marley, Romain Virgo and Capleton. They also helped sorting out accommodation for the rest of the stay in Jamaica above Spyders rec. studio, which we had a short sneaky peek while SmokeKing was recording some dubplates with Buju Bantons sister Adena Myrie. 

 

Enough about this ‘boring’ stuff, now, painting! It’s the first ROOF painting I’ve done. It was quite refreshing working on a higher level, and with a bit of a distance from any interruptions or distractions I could concentrate more. The only discomfort, or difficulty was trying not to stumble and fall in all these iron poles sticking up for wall extensions.  This paint took two days, as first day we had to get hold of more buckets of house paint (…as someone was lucky to spill half a box in his rucksack, got to have a couple of minor accidents..or?!)

Last post will be from Tuff Gong Int. (Marley rec studio.)

Check out the Scorpio made by : Masai 

Help Educate Jamaica

HELP Jamaica! Centre 

'Cassava Piece, Kingston 8
is located in uptown Kingston, not far from Constant Spring. Cassava Piece is what some people call an uptown ghetto: a poor neighbourhood with zinc fences, shacks, stony and tiny roads, many children and few opportunities – located left and right hand side of the Constant Spring Gully.'

http://www.helpjamaica.org

  


On the search for contacts out in Kingston, I had a lucky stumble upon Help Jamaica on facebook. I got a quick reply by email, saying they had a massive wall that they would want us to paint. I got overwhelmed by the size of it, and was worried that we couldn’t even fill it. Unfortunately, if we had stayed on a couple of more weeks we could have timed it for the Help Jamaica anniversary.
When we arrived at the centre at Cassava Piece, Hille was there to meet us. What he had in mind was to have an open spot in the middle for their movie projector. So we didn’t have to worry about the space, and just neatly positioned our characters on each side of this space.

Before starting we had to track around Kingston to find some additional pots of paint. Due to this we didn’t arrive as early as we wanted, but it didn’t take us too long in the end with these pieces. I was a bit worried I wouldn’t finish that day as the sun started setting, as I let myself get distracted by the kids running around, I guess I find it hard to ignore them. In the end there was a nice little crowd watching the last layers go on the walls, and it felt good finishing off and seeing their appreciation of the work.

To check out more what they are up to, you can follow their updates and photos on facebook

 

 

Check out Masais' Baboon and some more on our Help paint.

Please have a closer look, or become part of their growing international network, spread the word, donate, link up on their websites, networks and blogs :Help Jamaica! Centre'

Educate the people, and let's have some fun doing it!