Art is Just Like waiting for a bus!

You wait ages and they all come at once!!!
Last year was very slow for me with bits and pieces selling here and there but given the shows I did sales were lets say less than fantastic.
However since my solo show things have not stopped with sales of prints going great but more surprisingly in this times of lean economic pickings the oils seem to be more popular then they have ever been.
This oil, 'Ghetto Blaster' has been sitting with me for a while now, but finally he's gone thanks to The New Bedlam Art Asylum a company set up specifically for the nuturing and promotion of the arts in all its guises who found the buyer and organised the sale. (thankeee)
What a great start to the year and we are still in January!
I can't wait to finish off my commission pieces and get back to creating my new works for this year.
All very exciting!

Islington Arts Unfair

I know its a rubbish title for the blog but I could not help it. I popped along to the Islington Arts Fair with Mrs Storm to check out what new and groovey shiny things were on offer, and I must say I was distinctly unimpressed.

It was like stepping back in time a year, with generally the same galleries displaying much the same artists and much the same work. The problem as far as I can see it is the cost of exhibiting there is not allowing new galleries to get a foot in and so the same old usual suspects are always there, and generally in exactly the same spot as they were last year and the year before that.
With competition in the art market getting very fierece especially in the battle of the fairs I really think the organisers of the Islington fair are going to have to have a whole re-think especially with fairs like the Affordable becoming so popular. The Affordble Art Fair added Hampstead to its list last year and took over two £2,500,000 in the four days it was open.
The Freize will always pull in the mega big hitters both galleries and buyers alike, but if Islington want to cash in on the middle and lower end price ranges they will really have to change their strategy!!!

CIA Mickey SOLD

CIA Mickey has gone underground never to be seen again!
No he was not involved in a great conspiracy, he's just found a new home. This piece was created a year or so ago and was offered on my FB page at a discounted rate.
I will be selling off a lot of my sculptures and offering them first at a much lower rate on Facebook, if they are not snapped up there then they go on to the shop site where they await their new owners. So the moral of the story (me morals, I know!!!) is get in quick! ;)
This one stands about a foot tall, on the base there are real dollar bills and he is holding and also standing on a coin with JFK's face on it, make of that whatever you will.

Sculptures Away!!!!

After having sold a few paintings recently and wishing to embark on some new sculpting projects in 2012, I have now put some of my older sculptures on my shop site www.bedlamartasylum.bogcartel.com
Each piece will be offered at a vastly discounted rate to my Facebook chums and if there are no takers then they will go on the site at the full price.
So if anyone wants to get their hands on a piece of Storms back catalogue at a knock down price then they will have to be quick!

Bye Bye Banksy

Well now looks like my connection to Banksy has finally been severed as I have a buyer for the big Banksy portrait.

Bitter sweet really, I am always delighted to sell a piece but a bit sad to see him go, he was essentially a whole year of fun culminating in the Revelations exhibition where I hooked up with and got to know a whole host of FB friends, artists and non artists alike.

The whole reveal was centered around that painting so its a bit of fave but now its going to a new home and the best thing is it's going because someone really likes it, and after all thats what its all about!! :)

 

Shameless Capitalism

Blimey you wait a month and two come along at once, I am like an artistic bus, no jokes about the back end of said bus please!

Just a note to say that after much poking and prodding and death threats from the Vatican and Knights Templar I have released 'Icons' as an A2 limited edition giclee print.

Its my version of one of my favourite paintings, Supper at Emmaus by one of my favourite painters Caravaggio.

You can get them here http://www.bedlamartasylum.bigcartel.com/

Get in quick before the Pope snaps them all up!!!

Ooooh Hello

Bless me father for I have sinned, its been nearly a month since my last blog.

It's been a while since I was updating during my solo show, I was struck down with near fatal man flu so updating was the last thing on my mind, and then it was Christmas and then it was new year and now it's now, so happy 2012, even if it is an Olympic year!

So to update you, the solo show went really well, sold 2 originals and a shed load of prints and also got a couple of commissions, which is nice, so all in all I am really pleased. I would like to thank eveyone who helped out with the show, Mrs Storm especially, everyone who visited and everyone who was kind enough to buy my work, the money aside it's always a thrill that someone likes your work enough to part with their hard earned cash for it, I really do appreciate it.

Now as for 2012 I think it's time I got back to some 3D work, so I think this year I will be doing a lot more sculpture and the like.  I am hoping do produce some work along the lines of the type of thing Ron Mueck, Marc Sijan, Sam Jinks and Jamie Salmon do. I will keep you posted on developments! :)

I am also working on a portfolio/catalogue which is a nightmare, so many files in so many places!!

Stuunning Sculpture
by Sam Jinks

Day 5

Ok now I know the last one I did was day 3 but that also incorporated day 4 beause nothing much happened in between so I am actually doing today today, which is a bit like writing your biography when you are 15 but if anything else crops up I will update as it happens, unless that update is about the place burning down in which case I will be too busy jumping through a window to type!

So last night Day 4 but not updated cos it was late and I am still fighting and winning against this head cold Mrs Storm informed me that she had secured a 4ft commission piece for a chap who wants his wife painted in the nude, her not me, which is a fabulous job, not just cos its a nudey lady! Mrs Storm will be doing the photography so it will actually be tastefully done, if it was left up to me I shudder to think.

So then I got to the gallery this morning and oped up my online shop sales and found that overnight for some inexplicable reason I had sold an assortment of prints (11) overnight A1's, A2's and A3's...no idea why or how or what or who, must have been people cheering themselves up on a cold dark wet winters Monday, but whatever the reason...good on em!!!!
Right back to some Bob Marley and Hot Ribena!! :)

Tasteful Nudey Lady

Print Orders  :)

Bob Marley ONE LOVE!!!

Hot Ribena mmmmmmmmmmm!

DAY 3 tell me why I don't mind mondays!

Well yesterday, Sunday yesterday was a bit slow but not bad as a couple of prints sold which is nice! The weather was lousy and I caught a chill and sore throat but got home to Mrs Storm  and she dosed me up with her patented lemon honey and ginger and I am back in the gallery and fighting fit and fending off the advances of Charles Saatchi, bloody bugger! LMAO
Well now its Monday and here I am again, its been interesting already, sold another print and had an interesting chat with a lady who is a poet, artist, photographer and charity collector. So far unlike Bob Geldof I don't mind Mondays!!

DAY 2

Ok so now I will be doing each days update on the following day because its been way too busy to do it as it happens and when I get home I just want tea and toast and bed! LOL
So yesterday day 2 was great. Had a lot of very interesting chats about the show and the work with everyone from the local postman James Bond (I kid you not) and a lady psychologist and a whole bunch of other people inbetween.
Its the best part of the whole process meeting and chatting to people about the work and getting their reactions and opinions.
Then in the afternoon a very dear friend came from Paris to visit the show, Natalie is an incredibly talented artisan, her work appears in museums and opera houses and on the backs of catwalk models modelling for the finest Haute Couture houses the world over.  Then my freind Stealer Artman turned up and we had a great afternoon just chomping on chocolate cake and shooting the breeze about every subject under the sun and I sold my painting 'The Inexplicable Placement of Random Objects and Convoluted Painting Titles', so all in all a fabulous day!!!

SOLD