Back in 2021 I auctioned a collection of my music related artworks to pay the musicians who worked on the Wild Service Album.
The auction went super well, they are all now gone. But you can see a few of them digitally here, below. Stace xx
Title: Spectrum
Acrylic & collage, on canvas. Satin finish.
60.5cm x 91cm x 3.5cm
This piece is visual representation of how I see music & creativity. It's an alternative musical landscape in a sense. In part it relates to synaesthesia, and a-typical approaches to music creation.
Title: In Heaven Sitting Down
(Open G Tuning Fret Board Diagram)
Acrylic & collage, on canvas. Gloss finish.
81cm x 101.5cm x 1.5cm
This is a portrait of the ghost of an imagined younger Mississippi Fred McDowell pulling a magical guitar from the Mississippi river at night. It's also a fretboard diagram for the tuning of OpenG, part of a wider collection of fretboard pictures that are at once pieces of art, and something to hang on the music room wall as a tool for guitarists.
Title: DADGAD
(DADGAD Tuning Fret Board Diagram)
Acrylic & collage, on canvas. Satin finish.
40cm x 50cm x 1.5cm
This is a portrait of the guitarist, singer-songwriter and luthier Nathan Ball. It's also a fretboard diagram for the tuning of DADGAD, a warm, earthy tuning that is sometimes seen as the singer's tuning. It's part of a wider collection of fretboard pictures that are at once pieces of art, and something to hang on the music room wall as a tool for guitarists.
Title: Folksy Naive 60s Geetar
(Standard Fret Board Diagram)
Acrylic & collage, on canvas. Satin finish.
40.5cm x 51cm x 1.5cm
This fun and vibrant piece of naive, folk art, is a fretboard diagram for standard tuning. It intended to be a little light hearted & child like, but a serious tool for building your fretboard knowledge. It's part of a wider collection of fretboard pictures that are at once pieces of art, and something to hang on the music room wall as a tool for guitarists.
Title: Caged Heart (Naive)
Acrylic on vintage canvas. Satin finish.
39.5cm x 45.5cm x 2cm
A heart hides behind bars, notes, theory, a musical prison. However there is further hidden meaning that relates to the paintings underneath, a journey which started somewhere between 1930-1975. I will provide a letter of authenticity explaining the secret story to the buyer. But for very personal reasons for now the story behind this painting remains a mystery.
Title: Wild Swimming
Acrylic & collage, on canvas. Satin finish.
30.5cm x 30.5cm x 2cm
I created this smaller piece as artwork for a music single: Wild Swimming, for the album Wild Service. It relates to early February, Imbolc, & the Night of Yemanja. Hence the snowdrops and waters. Wild Swimming is about diving into the murky waters of life, about how the external world mirrors the inner, its inspired by Psychogeography, Dada, Semiotics & the exploration of emotional landscape that happens when we put ourselves "out there". It's about the opening & awakening of the land of our psyche that happens with the awakening of the land after the long winters sleep, and the accompanying emotional fall out.
Title: Live!
Acrylic, felt tip & collage, stencil, on canvas. Satin finish.
23cm x 30cm x 1.5cm
Many moons ago, I created this as the deliberately naive artwork for the publicity for a drawing event / music night that I organised near to my home on the edge of Snowdonia. It was great!
We had 3 drawing stations, one with circus performers, one with musicians playing, and one with a multimedia artist creating from wire. The audience moved around and drew the happenings at each station. It was a lot of fun. I think the youngest participant was about 6, and the oldest about 90. This is another fun vibrant naive piece. The collage at the bottom is of the mountains.
B/W photo from the event by artist/musician Paul Williams, N.Wales. Showing myself with my son Rhys and our friend Sasha.
Title: Wheel Art
Acrylic & collage, on canvas. Satin finish.
61cm x 61cm x 4cm
This wheel is part of the Wild Service album artwork. It is essentially a mood board that I created to make the artwork for the track listing, and the front cover from. There is no fixed beginning or end, but the tracks follow the wheel of the year.
The imagined tree wheel of our native trees formed the original concept. Each spoke of the wheel is made from textures that I created from cartoon sketches of zoomed in upon small parts of each tree. It's a lot less peach in real life!
On white canvas.
