NYCVelo Finished!

Finally! I am taking the opportunity to finish off projects and start a new commission whilst waiting for my wife's labor to start. Today is our due date.

So this painting has been with me for ever and it's been a love hate relationship. It was an experiment in painting in a different style to try and capture more movement and I think I basically ended up trying too many things. It is still a finished piece but looking back at photographs of different stages of it's creation there are more succesful moments in the past which I will note for future use.

For now though - enjoy!

Good Luck to Nicole Cooke who's racing season starts today.

New Painting - Chris Hoy

Can you imagine cramming all the power that Chris Hoy contains into a 6inch square!
Surely that does an injustice to the man.
But here he is....

Cyclist Awareness Campaign

I am guessing that either You Tube is overwhelmed or Transport of London want you to visit their site. The you Tube link below does not currently work - please visit the site directly at:
Do The Test

This is an ad produced for the Transport for London cycle safety campaign.

How well do you score.....

Brooklyn Museum of (Bicycle) Art

My very lovely and very pregnant wife (any day now) and I wandered around the Brooklyn Museum of Art yesterday. Whilst Sarah watched Judy Chicago describe each place setting at 'The Dinner Party', a great piece of art but I am not one for having the art explained to me, I explored the painting floor. This was the first painting to grab my attention - something about the graphic style and sense of power in the waterfall....



In the next room I this image caught my eye, initially the painting itself and then I saw it - not even hiding really - there in plain sight. This is a bicycle painting!



In fact the Brooklyn Museum of Art contains many of the glorious machines - here are a couple more I managed to capture.




This latter image 'Bicycle Boy Trade Sign' was made by Louis Simon around 1932.It hung outside of his bicycle and motorcycle shop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY. A bulb inside the head shone out of it's marble eyes and a small motor caused the boy to pedal!! Lovely.