Pokey Paintings and the Kid with Moxie

I continued on a long journey in abstraction which I love and revere.  And down the rabbit hole I went. I was caught up in gestural marks. At first working in oil paint, and when I no longer could, I started using Flashe paint thinking it could be an oil paint substitute. Wrong! It culminated in a series of small, intimate, pokey works.  A few of the pieces I showed at an alternative to the Frieze art fair in London, called Pilot II in 2005. It was organized by Rory Macbeth, a good friend and a brilliant painter and artist in his own right. 

I thought the work from this series in general was pretty anal, so I started back into figuration and gave up on the pokey abstract work. The real abstract painter who had the moxie was my 3-year-old son. Not me. Check out the video below. 

Unfortunately, he stopped drawing on the walls after about 6 months and never returned to painting or drawing again. 

A FOR-REAL Painter -- the real MacCoy Rory MacBeth

2 very different paintings by the same artist Rory MacBeth. Although they deal with the same issue of perception. 

The sterling board is actually a painting. It challenges our notion of reality as it is perceived, and our expectations of how things really are and not how they just appear to be. 

Rory Macbeth was once a Street Painter in Barcelona. We met on the street 1988 while he was street painting. That was quite common then, and if you were good, you could make a living doing it. I knew a street painting couple who bought an apartment in Barcelona with their earnings of small change. Rory is brilliant, a technical wizzard painting and phenomenally talented. Now he shows all over the place aside from having been one of the organizers of Pilot, in London, an archive and showcase of unrepresented artists.