Before moving on to the forthcoming and HISTORIC first Heckel’s Horse solo show coming to London in 2027 that only took 13 years to arrive… BLACK IVORY are doing a WEEKLY FREE ORIGINAL ARTWORK giveaway

It was famously said of Stuckism “It’s a dirty job but someone’s got to do it.” Likewise, freeing Heckel’s Horse from the anti-STUCKIST MANIFESTO captivity it’s been languishing in for the last 13 years

If you don’t already, I recommend reading @ronthroop Ron Throop’s posts, especially his recent one $18,604.34. I read it on the bus home from Camden yesterday evening, on the way back from scavenging some

The two main things for FREE ART FREES ART are figured out and ready for when I get back from Thailand, probably in January 2027. First, the online shops are selling a decent amount of work now and should

Today I finished nineteen 7 x 5 inch oil on canvas paintings that were all half finished last night. Here's a video of them: I’ll online auction one of today’s in a few weeks when they’re dry. If it does

If any of the three parcels sent to America today get returned by customs I’ll have to rethink how I ship to America, or if I continue shipping there at all. If it’s the cheap courier, I’ll switch to a

They say every problem’s an opportunity, so here’s my latest opportunity: Two of my parcels to America were refused at customs, so are on their way back to me. I’m pretty sure I know why, but have to wait

Doing what you don’t feel like doing. The most popular two formats, by far, in my online shops are the 30 x 24 inch oil on canvas paintings and the A5 size (21 x 15 cm) oil pastel drawings, so these are

Two videos were made today for two sets of work. I’ll write about the other video in another post but this one was for my most recently painted large paintings. These are the largest ones I can find affordable

Virtually all of today was spent on the computer editing and uploading old videos. Mostly miscellaneous footage that’s been sitting on my hard drive for months. Poorly named folders full of photos and

What goes into a typical order... Here’s a new idea for FREE ART FREES ART Put a free oil pastel drawing in with every order. Can’t believe I didn’t think of it before. The drawing can be of whatever they

The first copy of the CLASS Deluxe Edition to be sold was posted off to its new owner in America today. Included in the pack are two small original acrylic paintings on card, a signed and numbered FREE

Tonight I started recording demos for my forthcoming album. Two versions of a song called Shade. I often use drum machines for demos, as the regular beat makes everything clearer when deciding on song

The Class Album’s now available as a Deluxe Edition CD and art bundle, which I’ll probably write about more in my next post. This evening’s currently being spent starting twelve new oil paintings that’ll

This oil on stretched canvas painting of two rams sold today. 20 x 16 inches, will be making its way over to America probably tomorrow, as I'll be getting covered in more oil paint today making some 30

An oil painting I recently uploaded into my online shops of animals jumping over a fence into a flooding river. 30 x 24 inches on stretched canvas. I’ll be painting more this size tomorrow. If I could

FREE ART FREES ART frees art from the Keith Haring getters. I wanted to get the SONG PAINTINGS online earlier as 30 x 24 inch oil on canvas are my top seller, most expensive and high profit item. One of

Vertical clips and sketch paintings to go with the full song videos. These are some sketch paintings I just did of one of our recent band practices, September 3rd at Black Ivory in London. Emma Pugmire

Oil paintings on paper from c.2013. My fellow Black Ivory member Ron Throop @ronthroop recently discovered that many of his recent oil paintings were done on paper not considered suitable for this type

Camden's ready for 2027 but the online shops aren't. Building and running them is taking more time than expected, but is otherwise going well. Sales have been coming in and seeing the number of listings