GO TO BED, I DON'T SLEEP, August 2025

This was my first A0 painting, much larger than anything I had done before. It's interesting the difference scale makes. 

It's a self portrait, I'm wearing a Sam Vance Law t-shirt which is printed with a Norbert Bisky painting. Sam is my stepson and he chose the painting for the cover of his album, Homotopia. (I love that album. Wonderful storytelling, every song different, complex and fun and completely ear-wormy. ). I wanted to celebrate Sam in the painting and also to have a go at the Bisky, an intriguing image, to say the least. 

I don't always sleep well. When I set up the mirror to paint I looked at myself. The hair, the crazed look of someone who hasn't slept, I thought, geez, what a mess. Then I decided just to be me and go for it.

The painting took a couple of days. The scale was pretty daunting. I asked my daughter  -  a fantastic artist  -  for advice. She said, Mum, use a bigger brush.