This is the fifth version of Lemon Sunset, painted not long after our trip to São Paulo Brazil. Many of the elements were inspired by São Paulo, like the big condominium buildings across the landscape and the rolling green South American hills. Happy people are living in bunkers buried under sand. I did a painting a long time ago called Chicken #5 which kind of started the whole motif of giant chicken-shaped living quarters. This was in part from advice of a customer who was shopping at an art gallery that I volunteered at. He suggested that an artist, in order to be famous, had to develop a catchy motif that would be unique and original. As an example he mentioned chickens, off the top of his head rather than in a serious way. I gave it a try, Chicken #5 painted in Bolton at my parents house was posted in a blog on Monday July 7, 2008. Now, I wonder, has this idea of an apocalyptic future full of poultry-themed apartments and happy stick-figures living in yellow submarines become my original motif?
watercolour 22x 15" cold press. 2017
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