This page is the “Personal Network.” It displays work from the websites a member is following, in the order it was published. It also provides a way to engage in dialogue about the work in the form of “Cargo Comments.”
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The small thumbnails on the top of this page are a random sampling of websites in a member’s Network.
"Young Bob Dylan" "Keep a cool head and always carry a light bulb." Well, he always has had a uniquely outsider way of expressing himself, and his words are not...
"The Boss" Bruce at 61, three months younger than me. Our lives have run in tandem with 3,000 miles between us. When I was playing in the woods as a kid, chances...
"Jimi" Gered Mankowitz took a brilliant series of photographs in February of 1967. Three "smoking" shots against a thunder grey background have become so iconic...
"Amy" Seems sad to do a painting just after she passed away. Truth to tell, I'd been on the verge for months because of her outrageous talent and fantastic looks....
"Lennon In Shades" Cezanne painted Mont Saint-Victoire over 60 times and Monet did haystacks till they all got pissed off and went to the loft, so I see no reason...
"Apple Daze" Yet another playing with time image. Of course they didn't own iPods, but perhaps in a parallel universe....thankfully David Bailley produced...
"Autumn Beatles" One photograph from their Mad Day Out, Sunday 28th July 1968, in London has served me so well. A series of beautiful shots were taken at Thomson...
"Some Are Dead & Some Are Living" A composition using Venetian Blinds to add interest. It's a tribute to Brian Epstein really. So many entities collided to let...
"Sgt Pepper's Lonely Mobile Band" I love the idea of shifting time. One obvious method to depict this thought is to put a recent invention into sixties imagery....
"Doors Of Perception" The Doors found their name in a verse by William Blake, quoted in full on this painting. The lines illustrate beautifully all I feel about...
"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash" A severely cropped down image of the honest man. His integrity shines out of this page, stripped of all cosmetics like hair styling and...
"Sepia Beatles" A whole bunch of beautiful David Bailley photographs collaged together in sepias and water. I imagined some of them lying on his London studio...
"Neil Young Blows Aberdeen" I started painting this the day after I saw the great Canadian blow Aberdeen away in the summer of 2009. My son and I had the...
"Moon Rise" The Loon behind his thrashed cymbals in classic pose. Facial gymnastics and unbelievable body movements made him top box office during his brief time...
"Red Bandana" Strong, almost indestructable Bread & Butter paper allowed me to march Roman armies and Hitler's tanks over this, giving a faded patina to wisened...
"Disturbance" This image is comprised of letters formed in a homespun calligraphic manner. Once written I used glazes to render the spaces vertically and...
"Tomorrow I Will Miss You" Lately I've been experimenting with horizontal lines combined with watercolour. The result appears a bit etherial to me, like an old...
"John (In Profile)" I can imagine this in a Fra Angelico fresco. When the Renaissance guys were coming to terms with perspective you could often find angels and...
"Foo Fighting" You could run Glasgow's electric supply for a year on the strength of one Dave Grohl concert. His energy unquenchable, and an essential imgrediant...
"Looking Like A Saint" It's his Mississippi gambler look. He has come to look like a character in his mid 70s classic "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts".......
"Getting Wasted In The Heat" This is from an Eric Meola portrait. He had taken 700 shots of Bruce & Clarence in and around his New Jersey studio during 2 months...
"Paul In Words" A set of 3, minus Ringo, for the good reason that these are comprised largely of words written by the minds behind the features. The faces are...
"Coming Down Your Marble Hall" Can't recall exactly if Keef was offered a gong from the palace, but I know he was aghast when Mick accepted his. If he ever were...
"Smokey Keef" Here my hero is doing a Colonel Gadaffi impression. Painted just before Libya went crazy (power to the people!) I was tempted to paint in a few...
"Keef's Guitar" Currently I'm reading the great read that is "Life." I'm waiting for a paragraph to tell me that he takes his guitar to bed on occasion, which...
"Paul At Hampden, 2010" Well, this is from the year he played there, and it was a wonderful evening! It's fashionable to Macca-bash, and everyone knows someone...
"Mersey Words" John's words weave a mosaic over youthful features. Right time, right place, right! Black permanent ink with glazes of watercolour glazes built up....
"Baby Baby Diana" Little did we know about Diana's control freak antics at every turn when she was assuming lead singer role in Detroit, but it doesn't detract...
"Not In St. John's Wood" Written in the early 60s, and drawing on what must have been limited experience, "Play with Fire" is still a favourite of mine....
"Big Birds Flying Across The Sky" In the late 60s I'd become aware of Buffalo Springfield drifting down an Art School corridor from an old 8 track. A few years...
"Screen Door Slams" A small, landscape portrait of Bruce. He's looking slightly down on us with an air of dismissal I think. Unusual, because I believe he is...
"Sorry I Was Blind" I worked from a stunning shot of Willie by Annie Leibovitz. Here the former Bible salesman is 68 years old, and I must say looking every...
"Straight From Your Heart" Towards the end of 1968 with a wife and new born to support, Elvis had to do something drastic to resurrect his faltering career....
"Beatles Fresco" I've re-arranged Richard Avedon's iconic photograph of the Beatles in this painting. It's done on Bread & Butter paper to allow frantic...
"Dylan Fresco" He seems to have been around for ever and I tried to show his timelessness by creating something an archaeologist might unearth at Pompeii. It's...
"Silver Annie" My greatest critic/assistant is my wife Maureen. She gets paranoid every time I make a woman look slightly old by way of facial lines, forgetting...
"As Much of the Alphabet" Looking sharp and content he has wisdom in his eyes. My favourite Elvis album is "King of America"... jam packed with outstanding lyrics...
"JC... Sheffield" This is a commission from a few years back. Pulp were a band I'd somehow missed out on. You will find it becomes impossible to keep up as the...
"I Ain't Got A Gun" A disturbed, frankly scared look about him, this is Kurt not long before his death. His hometown of Seattle found a fine way to remember their...
"Put Your Sweet Lips" This is from a shot by Alfred Wertheimer. He was employed by RCA Victor to document Elvis, but he must have sensed the opportunity he had...
