THE BURBERRY BOY

THE BURBERRY BOY

I did this original illustration a couple months back now and have been wanting to paint it for ages. i thought it would be a canvass before it became a street piece but there you have it its on a westbourne grove wall outside west bank gallery now...

since living in london the foxes and what they get up to has been something i find really exciting...they are shifty little guys, they clearly live everywhere, as i find out each morning i let lola out, they have shat in her food bowl and all over the lawn... last summer the cubs kept us up all night long, this summer not so much..but i know their there...a forest gate fox, is actually almost how it should look, healthy coat and still fox like...ive seen them in the canary wharf area and they looook like shit, mangled, mal-nourished and their coats are barely even orange anymore...

bit of a close up on the eye

ive seen foxes during the day and it would seem that the street lighting at night has confused these guys soo much that they have forgotten that they are nocturnal, i should imagine that the shear noise of the city has stopped the element of fear for them...yeah anyway so foxes sly around the place and i find my self reminded of a london chavie kid...its a connotation that i find my self smiling about and so i added some burberry to the foxes ears...

burberry is a fabric pattern that has been crowned and conquered by chaves, townies, pikies, kevs what ever u and ur mates coin these guys we all know who wears burberry in the last 10 years.... the funny thing is that they not the only ones that wear burberry...the rich do, in fact its considered a hunters pattern, which happens to coincide nicely with my fox which is hunted....im sure that if u was to ask one of the kids on london streets how they feel they are treated by the police. they probably say they feel hunted...another link to the fox for them...yeah im actually quite happy with this link i made...

is that one of your ancestors lola..the chavie fox.....

INSIDEOUT AND VICEVERSA

this is a link to the show film... ill post the actual film at another date..if i can figure it out that is...

http://vimeo.com/28855024

InsideOut and Vice Versa

            London West Bank, left-side London’s freshest gallery is already turning heads and tails amongst Notting Hill and beyond.

            Dedicated to launch new talent, as well as keep the established in the paint they have grown accustomed to, directors Tommy Blaquiere and Paul Saunders have, since April, used this unique space to show what lowbrow/subculture/outsider/what are you doing to my lovely wall? art can say and be.

            This August saw artist Louis “Masai” Michel curating, with consultancy from Simon Watt, an exhibition that unites street/graffiti artists, professional illustrators, a graphic designer, one artificist, two waifs and several painters in a pear tree.

            Having spent six years dragging Europe’s finest to the hinterland of Cornwall, and creating plenty in between, Louis decided enough was enough. Moving to London eighteen months ago he has dedicated himself to corralling a group of artists. Ranging from he’s just back from another sell-out solo show in Europe to you might not have heard of her yet but...

            The exhibition documented the rise of outsider art and graffiti to the gallery, the thrust of fine art and illustration into the streets, and the exploration of where the two cohere. Styles, mediums, concepts, continents, 12 countries, 30 artists, 11^th August, lots of people, a few drinks, a private view,  InsideOut and Vice Versa.

                                            

   A review and more pictures can be found here 

   http://rentonsroom.co.uk/insideout-and-viceversa-at-west-bank-gallery-pictures/

the price list....some has sold so email for info...louis.lou.i@hotmail.com

http://charliepenrose.com/insideoutandviceversa/iovv-pricelist.html

A MASSIVE THANKYOU TO PETER PAINTER FOR THESE AMAZING CAPTURES OF THE PEOPLE AT THE SHOW AND THE ARTWORK ON THE WALLS....CHECK HIS FLICKR HERE....http://www.flickr.com/photos/54740273@N06/

 

 

 

http://charliepenrose.com/insideoutandviceversa/iovv-pricelist.html

INSIDEOUT AND VICEVERSA

Insideout and viceversa is a group show that i curated that looked for links between many creative formats that i engage with and find important as points of reference within my own work.  the artists in the show are illustrators, street artists, fine artists, graffiti artists, painters  and  so much more.  The show was in some ways a process to get many of my creative friends together to exhibit together.  I love finding never before seen artists along side some of the best rising talents within the subculture art scene.  The show was very successful and well received, i look forward to curating the next ones.

SOLD
The shape-shifters tea ceremony.  
Based on Japanese folklore this painting captures a fox taking part in a tea ceremony, she is contacting her master from within the tea steam...The shapeshifting is not in completion yet, hence why no tails can be sen yet at this image, im thinking that once the tea ceremony has finalised that the shape-shift will have completed and a tail might be seen if not concealed....

The escape
This is just the print to a painting that i sent to a show in Amsterdam. The image is about a russian pigeon that has been released from prison. He finds himself frustrated, finding a conditioned personality that he holds as a parrot is just to much for him and he peruses an escape from his new identity, resorting back to his natural incriminating habits.

                                                            

Hiphop wakes the night

I have been inspired by hiphop for many years and often find parts of the culture creeping into my work.  im also a deejay and therefore play loud music through the night. When i was living in falmouth cornwall i would walk back from the bars with my records and see the owls flying around.  I like the idea that the, beady eyed mcs with conscious-wise lyrics might like this connotation.

Seven of cubs
If bears played cards, u know u wouldn't fuck around with them, even if u found them cheating.  I dont think that this bear would play fair, but i dont think i know anyone about to challenge his hand...

                                                     the painting hanging in the show at  london west bank gallery 

                                                                  
                                                                                  

Tattoo dilemas

These next two paintings were painted with a good friend of mine, Vera Edwards, she lives in San-Fran California now and we dont get to see each other often.  She also had a painting of her own hung in the show.  The girls are from the suicide girls collective, a group of rebel don't give a fuck about consequences type group of hella-sexy girls.  Vera became obsessed with them and so we did these paintings as  an excuse for her to buy the book, i think in some ways she wanted to be a part of this collective scene...anyway she did the naked girls and i did the animals heads, due to her move to SF i ended up finishing the paintings working into the girls a bit too.

                                                                                       
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