Another Wilfred...

Another Wilfred piece, I do rather like painting Wilfred. This time on one of those 'nice' instant canvas decorations they mass produce and sell at Ikea, the ones that people get board with and throw away after a few months (once they've seen that all their friends have the same picture on their identical Ikea flavoured walls). They throw them away for me to find, paint one and recycle. I do like painting over these unwanted things, bit like the notion of those street artists painting over old walls and other people's pieces while leaving bits of what was there for people to see... And I do like the notion that Mother Nature is the finest of all street artists, growing her new leaves and fresh green things over decaying city walls and old unwanted pieces thrown away, over walls, over thrown away canvas or discarded 80's sounds systems. Wilfred would never be thrown away though, he's an original bit of classic 80's ghetto blaster who saw valiant service at the GLC Hip-Hop jam of the early 80's and gave good service on many painting and busking days back there. He now has a place of honour here in the studio bunker where he is often painted... Here's the latest Wilfred piece...