Summer Lovin’ (Grease) - Canvas Limited Edition
£1,195.00
- Initially the concept for my first ‘Grease’ piece was going to be a gritty take on this classic movie, however I always look to curate a balanced body of work with each new collection and along with the ‘The Time Of My Life’ (Dirty Dancing) image I wanted to offer a much lighter and cute piece that would appeal to a broader cross-section of my collector base. This coupled with producing ‘Summer Lovin’ during the early stages of the Covid-19 ‘lockdown’ I embraced the lighter side and the end result is just pure good fun and whimsically retro, as well as bloody bizarre in places!
The scene is set within the sports fields of Rydell High School during the Graduation Festival with the iconic Hollywood hills in the distance. It’s a beautiful Summer’s day, with balloons, bubbles and butterflies in the air with the fair in full swing! The styling for the piece was influenced by a much earlier ‘Mary Poppins’ piece entitled ‘Cast Off Your Shackles’ with the warm contrast between the grass and the sky, an ultimately cute scene that masks some of the subtle naughtiness that has been left by the high school leavers. In past pieces I have shown a carousel but this time I have gone with a cracking helter-skelter that not only looks perfect but allows me to hang so much detail to it, maybe the odd familiar face too!
A common theme within ‘Lost in Hollywood 3’ is the cars, any opportunity and all that! It was impossible to even contemplate not including ‘Greased Lightning’ as well as the flame-clad beast driven by Leo “Crater face” Batmudo, leader of the Scorpions whilst not forgetting the powder pink beauty driven by Rizzo and the Pink Ladies!
Music is always a big part of my work and the ‘Grease’ movie soundtrack offers so many cracking lines that I have loved to make reference in my signature way and hidden for you to seek out. With the composition it is a case of what you can’t see being equally important as what you can. I love to set it out so you can play out the film in your way, to become your favourite character and decide what is going on or about to.
The great element with preparing for the piece is the research, to sit down and watch the film, albeit stop start to allow for pages of notes. This is how you stumble across random little details that crop up that you never knew about, this combined with online research and fan pages it really magics up some cracking details that I then set about trying to integrate into my image. So, for those who may be wondering if I’ve been sinking a few too many ‘Blue Moon’s recently, well yes but the two-headed chicken and eight-legged pig are a thing apparently! Who knew?! Without doubt one of the most random tasks creating those in the studio as there’s not many points of reference floating about!
I am so pleased with how ‘Summer Lovin’ has turned out, I’ve not seen an interpretation like it, and I hope I have done it justice and that it makes you feel great. The seed is well and truly planted in my head for a sequel to this sometime in the future! So, I will leave you to search for the details and scrawled messages, oh and who would have thought that Eugene was hung like a freakin’ horse!
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- Released: 2020
- Collection: Lost in Hollywood 3
- Edition Size: 10 + 2AP
- Specification: Hand embellished heavyweight artist canvas, double framed, hand signed by artist.
- Image Size: 36” x 27"
- Framed Size (Approx): 41.5” x 32"
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- Please allow approximately 14 days for delivery, should you need delivery sooner please let us know.
Commissions
When workload allows Mark embraces client commissions and has enjoyed amazing success to date. If you have been inspired by the work that you have seen and have a specific idea or simply a seed then please do get in touch.
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'Freddy's Coming For You!' - Freddy Krueger Claw Statement Piece
£795.00
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Gepetto he is not, but this carved wooden plinth displays the stuff of nightmares!
This intoxicating piece is the first offering to sit within his 'Against The Grain' series, a body of work that will grow over time and represents Mark's intention to continue to do things differently. Mark has built up an incredible reputation for the level of craft that shines through his unique frames, and it is these details that you now see in this piece.
Everything about this is unique, from Mark hand selecting the piece of Elm at a local timber mill through to carving the claw marks that are soaked in blood red resin. No two will, or can be the same. What starts with a beautiful (and innocent!) piece of Elm, is then stained, blackened, bashed and burnt. The haunting Freddy Claw glove has it's metal blades set into the blood resin channels and is then subjected to the same level of customisation as the plinth.
Limited to what will be just 20 original variations and priced incredibly well considering the level of craftsmanship and hours needed to create each piece. This is something that needs to be seen close up to be truly appreciated, but how close do you dare get to that glove?!
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- Released: 2022
- Collection: Lost In Hollywood
- Edition Size: 20 Original Variations
- Specification:
- Hand selected locally sourced Elm (obviously!)
- Hand carved claw marks filled with blood red resin
- Blackened and burned
- Metal bladed claw glove
- Title and number plaque
- Hand signed by artist - Plinth Size (Approx): 19” x 9.5”
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- Get in touch for overseas delivery
- Please allow approximately 21 days for delivery, should you need delivery sooner please let us know.
'Grab Your Stick!' - Proton Wand Statement Piece
£995.00
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Now this is for the true obsessive GB fans! Whether you call it a Particle Thrower, Proton Blaster, Proton Gun, Positron Collider, Neutrona Wand, or Proton Wand, the result is the same! This piece looks like it’s been in a real battle and got slimed and fried AF!
I’m always striving to mix things up and look at ways of introducing my art in new formats and connecting with my collectors. Halloween 2022 saw me release something very different, and bloody dark! My Nightmare on Elm Street Claw plinth was the first piece that I have done that broke away from the traditional print editions and I loved every moment of it, and it has been so well received. It was a signal of my intentions to keep pushing and to deliver pieces that were true to my style but working with movie props to create something unique and special, whilst remaining true to my style of work. The aim was to offer a supporting piece that would complement a traditional print edition.So, my ‘RETROPLASM’ series has given me the opportunity to build on this and do something much less dark, although I couldn’t resist getting the blow torch out! ‘Grab Your Stick’ has transformed one of the coolest movie props that there has even been and made it, well I guess, funkier, and that’s before you turn the lights off – yep, the resin base glows in the dark whilst the neon paint also comes alive under lairy coloured light.
You are free to grab your stick, flick the switches and fire the sucker up! It will slam you right back to your childhood, just don’t cross the streams! Why not? Put simply, coz it’s bad, very bad! If you’re fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing, then maybe this will help. Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Oh, but don’t stress too much, batteries are included!
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- Released: 2023
- Collection: RETROPLASM
- Edition Size: 20 Original Variations
- Specification:
- Light up LED, sound effects and vibrations
- Blackened and burned
- Small parts to connect the stand to the wand - fragile - handle with care.
- Hand signed by artist - Baseh Size (Approx): 23.5” x 8”
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- Get in touch for overseas delivery
- Please allow approximately 21 days for delivery, should you need delivery sooner please let us know.
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88 & Out - Original
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- Released: 2019
- Collection: Lost In Hollywood 2
- Specification: 1 of 1 original framed embellished canvas, hand signed by artist.
- Image Size: 48” x 36"
- Framed Size: 54” x 41"