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The poker game
I got my ex, Jenny, to pose for the prostitute in this one and I think I captured the right level of vulnerability with her hand covering her genitals, with the hard, unforgiving expression on her face. There is no real narrative to this one apart from what you see, a vehicle for cards, nasty knives dollars and so on.
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The poker game
90x63cm Edition of 10
£520 |
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The Whore of Destiny
( La fulana del destino )
Emi, this time with a turban and enormously distorted hand. I got her to act the pose as a cross between a silent movie actress and a flamenco dancer. The polka dots on her dress took two weeks to carve.
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The Whore of Destiny
90x63cm Edition of 10
£500 |
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Champagne Charlie
I had fun with this one. Charlie evolved from a doodle and I couldn't quite decide whether to make him a dealer/patron or a business man; it doesn't really matter. One thing is clear; the woman with him is not returning his amorous advances because of his good looks. This large linocut was gridded-up from the lithograph, the only thing I changed for this version was the background view in the mirror.
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Champagne Charlie
80x50cm Edition of 10
£490 |
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The Big artichoke
This print took me a year and a half to complete; I started it in London and completed it in Cordoba . The artichoke was pinned to the wall a la Sanchez Cotan and the block was taped on the wall next to it for the drawing.
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The big artichoke
105x75cm Edition of 10
£560 |
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Who killed Sugarbaby?
Salvador Segui, (nicknamed Sugarbaby either because he was a sweet talker or because he had a sweet tooth); general secretary of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist union the CNT, was assassinated by the police on March 10 th 1923. Some union members tracked down the alleged perpetrator of this crime, General Languia, and assassinated him as he played cards with his bodyguards in the back room of a bar. What you see in the print is Languia the moment before he was despatched.
The gun in this is an authentic artefact; a nickel-plated Orbea revolver from the 1920's, a real pimp's gun.
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Who killed sugarbaby
90x63cm Edition of 10
£500 |
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Whisky you're the Devil
Again, a lino version of the lithograph
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Whisky you're the Devil
40x20cm Edition of 20
£75 |
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Life is very sweet brother, who would wish to die?
This is a celebration of love and of the finer things in life. The man is turning to the woman in this to whisper to her behind his hand which represents the secret language that lovers share. There is also a very phallic porron in it and the significance of the candle penetrating the round shape of the botijo hardly needs to be spelled out.
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Life is very sweet brother
Edition of 10 100x65cm
£520 |
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D.I.V.O.R.C.E
The picture and title are self-explanatory.
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D.I.V.O.R.C.E
Only 2 copies exist 90x58cm
£450 |
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Dreams and Nightmares
This piece is a direct reference to a painting by Joan Borras Casanova entitled Espana Vieja (Old Spain). In my version I split the composition in two halves, the left hand side representing dreams and the right side nightmares. On the left we have the anarchist newspaper ”Solidaridad Obrera” with the headline “La Victoria es Nuestra” (victory is ours), the olive branch for peace, the anarchist militia hat, and wine. On the right we have a skull representing Catholicism's morbid fascination with death, the bible, a rosary and a mantilla; all symbols of old, reactionary Spain .
The update of the composition comments on modern Spain which is still divided between progress and reaction.
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Dreams and Nightmares
Edition of 25. 50x33cm
£175 |
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Condolences
This is an imagined scene of some East End criminals mourning the death of Reggie Kray. I saw the funeral cortege and took photos of the mourners including Bermondsey Dave Courtney who features in the middle of this composition.
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Condolences
Edition of 10, 30x41cm
£120 |
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Big F
Fernando Feijoo and myself both have a problem with the “vicar's daughter” image of printmaking; so we got dressed up and covered ourselves with painted tattoos to pose as a counterblast to the sedate image of printmakers.
So here he is as “Big F”
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Big F
20x15cm Edition of 20
£55 |
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It ain't a fit night out for man nor beast
A bit of silliness with Pandora posing for the camera.
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It ain't a fit night out for man nor beast
Edition of 20, 25x50cm
£75 |
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Say cheese
This is London Fields where I live. It snowed heavily in April and I couldn't resist the silhouettes playing in the snow. A little boy sits on an enormous snowball whilst his dad takes a photo on his mobile.
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Say cheese!
Edition of 20 25x20cm
£75 |
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Name your price
This is very loosely based on the proprietor of a restaurant in Cordoba called “El Tablon”. Felicia Feaster wrote of this print:
“The people eventually transposed from these sketches into linocuts are caught between the crosshairs of Pig's scathing, often misanthropic read on human specimens, such as the bald and pendulously gutted man sitting in a Spanish bar in "Name Your Price." Pig's prints are packed with information, from his elaborately detailed textures of woodwork, skin and other surfaces, to the telling gesture or physical feature that sets his psychological stage. In "Name Your Price," he conveys the man's aura of peacock macho vanity with his shirt provocatively unbuttoned and his Vienna sausage fingers laced with numerous gold rings gripping a ludicrously dainty wine glass.”
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Name your price
Edition of 20 40x26cm
£125 |
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Hungry for endless voluptuous pleasures
The title comes from a quote by Raoul Vaneigem in “The Book of Pleasures”. The wizened grasping hand being a metaphor for lust and greed.
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Hungry for endless voluptuous pleasures
Edition of 10, 43x35cm
£110 |
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Papuna
Papuna works in a violin shop in Atlanta and comes from Georgia . He is a talented musician with the most amazing face, a gift to portraiture.
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Papuna
29x41cm, Edition of 20
£125 |
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Naomi
The drawing for this was done years ago. Naomi has a tattoo of by Tenniel Alice in Wonderland on her shoulder, but I couldn't put that in as it wouldn't print cleanly.
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Naomi
Edition of 20, 25x34cm
£110 |
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Madame Emilia never lies
I like the theatricality of cards, they are associated in my mind with film noir staging. I also love the tatty end-of-the-pier vulgarity and dressing-up associated with fortune telling. I used the distortion of photography in this one by taking the shots perched up a ladder, making Emi's hands very small, which contrasts nicely with the whore of destiny.
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Madame Emilia never lies
29x42cm, Edition of 20
£135 |
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Artichoke
I've got a bit of a thing about artichokes, this was the first.
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Artichoke
39x30cm, Edition of 25
£85 |
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Do you do voodoo?
I enjoyed inventing the dancers around the border on this bit of camp pseudo fifties piece. You'll see various sexual preferences illustrated, along with different dancing styles.
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D'you do voodoo?
50x38cm, Edition 0f 20
£135 |
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Deena
This is Deena Omar in the studio in Cordoba .
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Deena
39x33cm, Edition of 20
£105 |
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Pandora
This is my beautiful missus, reluctantly posing for me in the Cordoba studio.
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Pandora
Edition of 20, 50x33cm
£130 |
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El gato y la luna
I started work on a project with the Cordobes artist Jose Vega Millan. The theme was beer and dogs, wine and cats and we each intended to make five prints each on that theme. He didn't complete any, and after two prints I abandoned the project.
The cat and the moon is a simple piece with the moonlit roofs of London .
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El Gato y la Luna
33x23cm, Edition of 20
£75 |
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The blind man and the soldier
This chappie was born as a result of looking at a stain on the wall for too long. The drawing developed along with the narrative. He is being pushed by some beery “mates” onto a line of closed ranks soldiers. The Sergeant receives him with cynical glee as he anticipates a bit of “fun” at the blind man's expense.
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The blind man and the soldier
Edition of 5, 24x32cm
£95 |
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Pan
This is a little study of an exquisite piece of sculpture from Pompeii that portrays pan having sex with a goat.
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Pan
20x15cm, Edition of 15
£55 |
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Welsh cow
A cow's skull in bright sun.
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Welsh Cow
14x19cm, Edition of 15
£65 |
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Exile
I did have a ruder title for this one. It's a self portrait in the doorway of my studio in Spain ; drinking from a bota as a form of revenge against the dreariness of England .
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Exile
25x16cm, Edition of 15
£45 |
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Little black number
A little study from a sketch done in The Prince George.
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Little black number
15x12cm, Edition of 15
£30 |
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Dyke on the pull
Study from a sketch done in the Hen and Chickens.
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Dyke on the pull
15x12cm , Edition of 20
£30 |
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Protectors of “The Colonel”
Two of the security men employed to protect the hearse containing the remains of the Reggie Kray, who was known as the colonel.
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Protectors of the colonel
15x20 Edition of 10
£35 |
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Special guests
I found restaurant culture in Cordoba very interesting. The staff are unbelievably obsequious to those deemed worthy of respect. I have chosen a couple of archetypal bourgeois Cordobans. The woman with her capuchin monkey hairstyle, (solid with lacquer), and her jacket draped statesman-like over her shoulders; and the man with the obligatory moustache.
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Special guests
19x35cm, Edition of 20
£55 |
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They were children once
Two middle aged businessmen in the Lamb and Flag fancying their chances after work.
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They were children once
20x19cm Edition of 20
£65 |
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Crest of Ilium
I drew this design from life directly on the block. I wanted the image to be read as landscape, looking on a lover's body as landscape.
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Crest of Ilium
Edition of 20, 30x30cm
£135 |
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Thou shalt not make thee any graven image
I've always enjoyed the paradox of the second commandment in the bible. It specifically forbids the making of any image of anything figurative. The Christians have blithely ignored it because Christianity was adopted by a culture that loves making images; and this image is a graven one as well. There is an appalling typo in it, can you spot it?
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Thou shalt not
18x33cm, Edition of 25
£75 |
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Envy Sophie's diamond ring
This one won me the St Cuthbert's Paper Mill Award for a print of outstanding quality. A friend had sent me an awful, smug poem to announce his engagement to the said Sophie. I couldn't resist the humour in a group of bitchy women giving Sophie dagger looks as she shows off her ring.
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Envy Sophie's diamond ring
Edition sold out |
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Way home
A small illustration for Despite Anything, collected writings of mark Whittaker.
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Way home
11x15cm, Edition of 10
£25 |
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Wife beater
A lino version of the lithograph.
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Wife beater
40x20cm, Edition of 20
£75 |
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Large Muse
Marian Gray
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Large muse
51x41cm, Edition of 15
£105 |
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Small Muse
A little version with the tones removed.
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Small muse
15x12cm, Edition of 20
£35 |
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Made in England
This is one of a diptych of thugs. I saw this, a couple of thugs one with a machete and one with a baseball bat looking for some men they'd had a dispute with in the pub. |
Made in England
30x25cm Edition of 15
£135 |
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Vigilante
The man with the machete.
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Vigilante
30x25cm, Edition of 15
£135 |
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Lorenzo
This is a little study for condolences. It's done from a photograph I took of the head mourner at Reggie Kray's funeral, “Bermondsey” Dave Courtney. He was at the head of the entourage wearing a long woven leather cloak and a massive gold ducal chain. It bought to mind the vulgar display of wealth with an undercurrent of violence I associate with Lorenzo da Medic
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Lorenzo
9x10cm, Edition of 40
£40 |
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La Torrecilla
My mates have a lovely country house that they let me stay in, up in the mountains with no one around. This is the north tower at night, illuminated against the blackness of the trees.
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La Torrecilla
33x16cm Edition of 20
£45 |
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Be still my love
I have strange little dreams during siesta. This was one of them; a voluptuous woman writhing sinuously with a crocodile. It was quite erotic; and this is what the poet Linda Lamus wrote after seeing the print in Ambit magazine.
Madame Emilia and the crocodile
Madame Emilia never lies –
except, naked, in the arms of her crocodile.
They lean on purple cushions while she plays
the concertina skin beneath his neck
with extended crimson nails.
Almost every day she burnishes
his scales so tenderly that people swear
they must be lovers. And she, a married woman ;
shrill the widows at the well.
Madame Emilia and the crocodile
smile, share pomegranates.
In his stubby arms she dreams
of muddy rivers, how his lips would kiss
the throats of deer and goats and butterflies;
the rush of waterfall
and his claw railings holding her safe.
He bares fine, jigsaw teeth, wraps his tail
about her legs in that warm, reptilian way.
They puff a hookah in slow-motion, watch vapour
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Be still my love
15x10cm, Edition of 40
£65
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