Jody Barton
Silkscreen
'Rasta Willy' (Blue & Fluorescent)
£60

Print size: 56 x 76 cm
Edition: 10
Printed on Fabriano Artistico with fluorescent inks and blue line/

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The world screams - and Jody feels its pain and cries out mournfully in a terrible chord of Teen Angst. After a period living in Shitsville (London) he now lives in quiet seclusion with his elaborate bicycles in the deep countryside of the County of Countryside. His dwelling is so remote that there are no roads out at all. No shops, no lights - only the howl of the owl, the inquisitive friendship of the weasel and so much mud. To pass the time he makes pictures for anyone who asks. Scrawling pictures of dead and dying dolphins, weeping over empty treasure chests, getting mental treatment for having been an inmate at Her Majesty's Prison Art College and painting portraits of death help to fill the time between sleeps. In the long nights he manipulates electrons on distant hard-drives to bring the joy of websites to the world. There's nothing like a roasted blue-tit for breakfast. He loves TK Maxx too. He uses Sharpie markers, a scanner and the iMac Apple PC Dell Dimension Intel Inside Celeron Acorn BBC Micro Laptop Desktop Flat Screen Wide Screen Sony Solar Easeltop Mini Organiser Mulberry Blackberry Raspberry iBeret to make his works.