HIGHER POWER #1
Mixed Media on Stretched Canvas
92cm x 92cm

MIXED MEDIA ON STRETCHED CANVAS
(36” X 36”)

SOLD

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

MIND SHIFT SERIES
Mixed Media on Stretched Canvas
92cm x 92cm

ACRYLIC ON STRETCHED CANVAS 36” X 36” (91CM X 91 CM)
SOLD

New paintings can be found on my latest site at: www.davidjsaville.com

In the heart of Cheltenham lives The Button Factory, an urban gem served with a side of soul. It radiates with charm, creativity and character.

HIGHER POWER #2
Mixed Media on Stretched Canvas
92cm x 92cm

MIXED MEDIA ON STRETCHED CANVAS
(36” X 36”) 2.6CM THICK

SOLD

MIXED MEDIA ON WARERCOLOUR BOARD (29.7 x 42.0cm)

SOLD

My recovery must come first so that everything I love in life does not have to come last

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

MIXED MEDIA ON STRETCHED CANVAS
(36” X 36”)

SOLD

Help me if you can
It's just that this
Is not the way I'm wired, so
Could you please

Help me understand why
You've given in to all these
Reckless dark desires, you're

Lying to yourself again
Suicidal imbecile
Think about it, you're pounding on a fault line
What'll it take to get it through to you precious

I'm over this, why do you wanna throw it away like this?
Such a mess, why would I want to watch you?
Disconnect and self destruct one bullet at a time

What's your rush now?
Everyone will have his day to die

Medicated, drama queen Picture perfect, numb belligerence
Narcissistic drama queen Craving fame and all its decadence

MIXED MEDIA ON BOARD
29.7 x 42.0 cm

$50 EACH

“I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.”

― D.D. Barant, Dying Bites

MIXED MEDIA ON STRETCHED CANVAS
(36” X 36”)

SOLD

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

MIXED MEDIA ON STRETCHED CANVAS (50CM X 60CM)

SOLD

“The level of intelligence has been tremendously increased, because people are thinking and communicating in terms of screens, and not in lettered books. Much of the real action is taking place in what is called cyberspace. People have learned how to boot up, activate, and transmit their brains.

Essentially, there’s a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link-ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace-electronic space.”

― Timothy Leary

MIXED MEDIA ON STRETCHED CANVAS
(36” X 36”)

SOLD

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Charles Bukowski

MIXED MEDIA ON STRETCHED CANVAS
(80cm x 65cm)

SOLD

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”

― John Lennon

MIXED MEDIA ON STRETCHED CANVAS
(36” X 36”)

SOLD

“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.”
― Bill Hicks

Oil Paint, Oil Pastels and Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas
36” x 36” (91.4cm x 91.4cm)

All paintings are applied with fixative and a gloss coat

SOLD

“The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok … But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”
― Bill Hicks

MIXED MEDIA ON STRETCHED CANVAS
(36” X 36”)

$800 EACH

“What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It's amazing. Science is one of the coolest things about being a human being - without a doubt.”
Joe Rogan

MIXED MEDIA ON WATERCOLOUR BOARD (29.7 x 42.0cm)

SOLD

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”

― Hunter S. Thompson

MIXED MEDIA ON WATERCOLOUR BOARD (A3)

NOT FOR SALE

“Be cool to people. Be nice to as many people as you can. Smile to as many people as you can, and have them smile back at you.”

Joe Rogan

New paintings can be found on my latest site at: www.davidjsaville.com

Oil Paint, Oil Pastels and Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas

36” x 36” (91.4cm x 91.4cm)

SOLD

“Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness; chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself.”

― Timothy Leary

Oil Paint, Oil Pastels and Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas - Heavily Textured

36” x 36” (91.4cm x 91.4cm)

SOLD

All paintings are applied with fixative and a gloss coat

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.”
― William S. Burroughs

“Abstract literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract… a realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.” – Richard Diebenkorn

Oil Paint, Oil Pastels and Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas

36” x 36” (91.4cm x 91.4cm)

All paintings are applied with fixative and a gloss coating

SOLD

“Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the stigma is so great that they don't come forward.”
Elyn Saks

ACRYLIC ON STRETCHED CANVAS (121cm X 121cm)

SOLD

“How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.”

― Elizabeth Lesser

MIXED MEDIA ON WATERCOLOUR BOARD (29.7 x 42.0cm)

NOT FOR SALE

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”

― Hunter S. Thompson

INK ON STRETCHED CANVAS
(36” X 36”) 2.6CM THICK

$250

Mixed Media on Stretched Canvas
91cm x 91cm

SOLD

“They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do just as well — you just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference.”
― Bill Hicks

Oil Paint, Oil Pastels and Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas - Heavily Textured

36” x 36” (91.4cm x 91.4cm)

“There'a a phrase, "the elephant in the living room", which purports to describe what it's like to live with a drug addict, an alcoholic, an abuser. People outside such relationships will sometimes ask, "How could you let such a business go on for so many years? Didn't you see the elephant in the living room?" And it's so hard for anyone living in a more normal situation to understand the answer that comes closest to the truth; "I'm sorry, but it was there when I moved in. I didn't know it was an elephant; I thought it was part of the furniture." There comes an aha-moment for some folks - the lucky ones - when they suddenly recognize the difference.”
― Stephen King

OIL ON CANVAS (60CM X 46CM)

$550 FOR THE THREE

“I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical”

Jim Morrison

MIXED MEDIA ON STRETCHED CANVAS
(36” X 36”)

BEFORE & AFTER

SOLD

“I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.”
Billy Joel

MORNING RAIN
This piece has been created over the last week. It's hard to tell from the photo but it is heavily textured with 33 tubes of paint invested into this large canvas. The bottom four photos were taken at sunrise. This lighting helps to promote the texture and almost turns it into another painting.

ACRYLIC ON STRETCHED CANVAS
121cm X 121cm (Large)

$1200

MIXED MEDIA ON STRETCHED CANVAS (121cm X 121cm)

SOLD

“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.”

― Noam Chomsky

Mixed Media On Watercolour Board - 297 x 420 mm

SOLD

“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly coloured than the day.”

Vincent Van Gogh

MIXED MEDIA ON STRETCHED CANVAS X3
(36” X 36”)

SOLD

“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.”
Blaise Pascal

New paintings can be found on my latest site at: www.davidjsaville.com

MIXED MEDIA ON LARGE STRETCHED CANVAS
121cm X 121cm (Large)

$1200

“When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.”
Abraham Lincoln

Cells - Mixed Media on Stretched Canvas
122cm x 122cm

SOLD

“You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.”
- Terence McKenna

Oil Paint, Oil Pastels and Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas

36” x 36” (91.4cm x 91.4cm)

$450

This is an extremely heavily textured piece. Between 20 and 30 tubes of paint were dedicated into it’s creation and it is a large canvas. If you are thinking about purchasing this piece please take this into consideration. This painting would thrive in a sunlit room. Gold paint has been used but the photo that was taken with a crappy smartphone camera doesn’t do this justice.

OIL & ACRYLIC ON STRETCHED CANVAS - 121cm X 121cm (Large)

$1200

Look on the bright side, suicide
Lost eyesight I'm on your side
Angel left wing, right wing, broken wing
Lack of iron and or sleeping
Protector of the kennel
Ecto-plasma, ecto-skeletal
Obituary birthday
Your scent is still here in my place of recovery

Kurt Cobain

NOT FOR SALE

I wish I was like you, easily amused
Find my nest of salt, everything's my fault
I'll take all the blame, aqua seafoam shame
Sunburn, freezer burn, choking on the ashes of her enemy
- Kurt Cobain - All Apologies

Oil Paint, Oil Pastels, Gold Paint and Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas

36” x 36” (91.4cm x 91.4cm)

All paintings are applied with fixative and a gloss coating

$750

“I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, "My God! I love everything." Yeah, now if that isn't a hazard to our country … how are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we're all one?”
― Bill Hicks

MIXED MEDIA ON STRETCHED CANVAS (121cm x 121cm)

SOLD

“Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.”

- Cherrie Moraga

Oil Paint, Oil Pastels and Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas

36” x 36” (91.4cm x 91.4cm)

$450

This is an extremely heavily textured piece. Between 20 and 30 tubes of paint were dedicated into it’s creation and it is a large canvas. If you are thinking about purchasing this piece please take this into consideration. This painting would thrive in a sunlit room. Gold paint has been used but the photo that was taken with a crappy smartphone camera doesn’t do this justice.

ACRYLIC ON STRETCHED CANVAS (121cm X 121cm)

SOLD

I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry

Kurt Cobain

Oil Paint, Oil Pastels and Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas
36” x 36” (91.4cm x 91.4cm)

All paintings are applied with fixative and a gloss coating

SOLD

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

OIL ON STRETCHED CANVAS (100cm x 100cm)

SOLD

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”

― Hunter S. Thompson

New paintings can be found on my latest site at: www.davidjsaville.com

OIL ON CANVAS (121cm x 121cm)

SOLD

“If the words ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ don’t include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn’t worth the hemp it was written on.”

Terence McKenna

Oil Paint, Oil Pastels and Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas
36” x 36” (91.4cm x 91.4cm)

All paintings are applied with fixative and a gloss coating

SOLD

“I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.”
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Oil Paint, Oil Pastels and Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas
36” x 36” (91.4cm x 91.4cm)

SOLD

What is there to say? It is what it is!

“Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home.”

Eric McCormack

Oil Paint, Oil Pastels and Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas
36” x 36” (91.4cm x 91.4cm)

All paintings are applied with fixative and a gloss coating

SOLD

“Here is my final point...About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography...What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, or take into my body as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? And for those who are having a little moral dilemma in your head about how to answer that question, I'll answer it for you. NONE of your fucking business. Take that to the bank, cash it, and go fucking on a vacation out of my life.”
― Bill Hicks

OIL AND ACRYLICS ON PAPER (42cm X 59cm)

NOT FOR SALE

“The goal of abstract art is to communicate the intangible, that which eludes the photograph and normal seeing.” – Curtis Verdun

New paintings can be found on my latest site at: www.davidjsaville.com

Acrylic On Paper - 297 x 420 mm

SOLD

These paintings were created during a recent one month admission to hospital. I utilised the art therapy room each day using the materials I had at hand - Cheap student grade acrylics and flimsy A3 paper. These are concept pieces and ideas I have for future canvases.

OIL & ACRYLIC ON STRETCHED CANVAS - 121cm X 121cm (Large)

$650

So crucify the ego, before it's far too late
And leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical
And you will come to find that we are all one mind
Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable
So let the light touch you
So let the words spill through
And let them pass right through
Bringing out our hope and reason

Tool - Reflection lyrics

Oil Paint, Oil Pastels and Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas

36” x 36” (91.4cm x 91.4cm)

SOLD

“The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.”
― Bill Hicks

OIL & ACRYLIC ON STRETCHED CANVAS - 102cm X 102cm

$350

Teenage angst has paid off well
Now I'm bored and old
Self-appointed judges judge
More than they have sold

Kurt Cobain

“It doesn't matter if we grow old and get replaced by a new younger generation as long as there is still someone talking about us because they will still remember how we shone so bright.”
Lisa

Acrylic On Paper - 297 x 420 mm

SOLD

These paintings were created during a recent one month admission to hospital. I utilised the art therapy room each day using the materials I had at hand - Cheap student grade acrylics and flimsy A3 paper. These are concept pieces and ideas I have for future canvases.

OIL & ACRYLIC ON STRETCHED CANVAS - 121cm X 121cm (Large)

$850

“It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices.”

Kirk Cameron

Oil Paint, Oil Pastels and Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas
36” x 36” (91.4cm x 91.4cm)

All paintings are applied with fixative and a gloss coating

SOLD

“I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.”

James D. Watson

OIL ON STRETCHED CANVAS (121cm X 121cm)

SOLD

“I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labours it has cost me”

Henri Matisse

MIXED MEDIA ON WATERCOLOUR BOARD (29.7 x 42.0cm)

SOLD

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

― Charles Bukowski

OIL ON STRETCHED CANVAS (121cm x 121cm)

$650

“We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.”

― Erich Fromm

OIL ON BOARD (42cm x 59cm)

NOT FOR SALE

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”

― Hunter S. Thompson

OIL ON CANVAS (101cm x 101cm)

$1200 EACH - $1800 FOR TWO

“We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that’s what it’s become, of being different.”

― David Icke

“Obviously, I don’t vote. As I believe democracy is a pointless spectacle where we choose between two indistinguishable political parties, neither of whom represent the people, but the interests of powerful business elites that run the world.” – Russell Brand

“Everything you can imagine is real.” - Picasso

Not For Sale

Oil Paint, Oil Pastels and Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas
36” x 36” (91.4cm x 91.4cm)

All paintings are applied with fixative and a gloss coating
SOLD

“Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.”
― Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

MIXED MEDIA ON WATERCOLOUR BOARD (29.7cm x 42.0cm)

SOLD

“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”

Salvador Dali

OIL ON STRETCHED CANVAS (121cm X 121cm)

SOLD

“For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.”

- Edvard Munch

OIL ON STRETCHED CANVAS (121cm X 121cm)

SOLD

“For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.”

Edvard Munch

OIL ON CANVAS (80cm x 80cm)

$300 FOR THE TWO

“A painting is a record of the extremely intensified moments of life – where more than one space, two senses of time, more than the law even seems at work, where the emotional forces seem to be propelling one to a dangerous limit, where reason and explanations become too enfeebled or too speeded-up to matter.”

Brett Whiteley

Oil Paint, Oil Pastels and Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas

36” x 36” (91.4cm x 91.4cm)

$450

This is an extremely heavily textured piece. Between 20 and 30 tubes of paint were dedicated into it’s creation and it is a large canvas. If you are thinking about purchasing this piece please take this into consideration. This painting would thrive in a sunlit room. Gold paint has been used but the photo that was taken with a crappy smartphone camera doesn’t do this justice.

OIL ON STRETCHED CANVAS (121.92cm x 121.92cm)

SOLD

“We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve higher grades in school and college and have more success in their careers than others. Success depends on the ability to delay gratification, which is precisely what a consumerist culture undermines. At every stage, the emphasis is on the instant gratification of instinct. In the words of the pop group Queen, “I want it all and I want it now.” A whole culture is being infantilised.”

― Jonathan Sacks

Acrylic On Paper - 297 x 420 mm

These paintings were created during a recent one month admission to hospital. I utilised the art therapy room each day using the materials I had at hand - Cheap student grade acrylics and flimsy A3 paper. These are concept pieces and ideas I have for future canvases.

OIL & ACRYLIC ON STRETCHED CANVAS - 121cm X 121cm (Large)

$850

“I don't like the crowds, I don't like to get out of the house if I don't have to.”
James Garner

“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”

― George Carlin

MIXED MEDIA ON WARTECOLOUR PAPER (A3)

SOLD

“What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.”

― W. H. Auden

ACRYLIC ON STRETCHED CANVAS (121cm X 121cm)

SOLD

“I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.”

Jean-Michel Basquiat

OIL ON CANVAS (101cm x 101cm)

$350

“The reason we are so controlled is not that we don't have the power to decide our own destiny, it is that we give that power away every minute of our lives. When something happens that we don't like, we look for someone else to blame. When there is a problem in the world, we say "What are they going to do about it". At which point they, who have secretly created the problem in the first place, respond to this demand by introducing a 'solution' - more centralisation of power and erosion of freedom. If you want to give more powers to the police, security agencies and military, and you want the public to demand you do it, then ensure there is more crime, violence and terrorism, and then it's a cinch to achieve your aims. Once the people are in fear of being burgled, mugged or bombed, they will demand that you take their freedom away to protect them from what they have been manipulated to fear. The Oklahoma bombing is a classic of this kind, as I detail in ..And The Truth Shall Set You Free. I call this technique problem-reaction-solution.

Create the problem, encourage the reaction "something must be done", and then offer the solution. It is summed up by the Freemason motto 'Ordo Ab Chao' -order out of chaos. Create the chaos and then offer the way to restore order. Your order. The masses are herded and directed by many and varios forms of emotional and mental control. It is the only way it coud be done.”

― David Icke

OIL ON STRETCHED CANVAS (121cm X 121cm)

$750

“Here is my final point...About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography...What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, or take into my body as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? And for those who are having a little moral dilemma in your head about how to answer that question, I'll answer it for you. NONE of your fucking business. Take that to the bank, cash it, and go fucking on a vacation out of my life.”

― Bill Hicks

ACRYLIC ON STRETCHED CANVAS (121.92 x 121.92)

SOLD

“We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...”

― Chuck Palahniuk

MIXED MEDIA ON WATERCOLOUR BOARS (60cm x 82cm)

NOT FOR SALE

“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”

― Charles Bukowski

WATERCOLOUR PENCILS ON BOARD

Not finished and not or sale

“We seldom consider how much of our lives we must render in return for some object we barely want, seldom need, buy only because it was put before us...And this is understandable given the workings of our system where without a job we perish, where if we don't want a job and are happy to get by we are labeled irresponsible, non-contributing leeches on society. But if we hire a fleet of bulldozers, tear up half the countryside and build some monstrous factory, casino or mall, we are called entrepreneurs, job-creators, stalwarts of the community. Maybe we should all be shut away on some planet for the insane. Then again, maybe that is where we are.”

― Ferenc Mate

This was my first painting with oils on canvas 26 years ago. Only 2 tubes of paint were used... Ultramarine blue and white!

It was also the first & last canvas I built by myself. I didn't even know how to use turpentine or other solvents. All I had to work with was some canvas, some timber, two tubes of paint and a paint brush. I could never part with this piece for any price.

“It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. “

Salvador Dali