100 Artrists for Pride Exhibition: Brighton 2010

'Somewhere over the Rainbow', 20 x 20cm, oil on box canvas

Through my friends on facebook I came across an exhibition running in Brighton as part of the Gay Pride festival next week. The idea was to have 100 artists exhibit a small artwork for the week to raise funds for the festival next year. I love festivals so thought why not?
This is my portrait of Champagne Charly performing her 'Dorothy' routine. I added the rainbow as it is the colours of gay pride and I made her feather boa a touch more vivacious. I did resist painting the red shoes for once though!

Pittenweem Catch

Over the past few months I have had a bit of bother with my back, but rather than lie about doing nothing, I found I could still do little postcard sized paintings by sitting for short periods of time. I was up in the pretty seaside village of Pittenweem in Fife and overheard the owner of the Fisher Gallery talking about a fund-raising charity auction for a Gala day there. As I wasn't getting much of my own painting done, I took one of their A5 boards home and produced this little piece.

I had to mail the painting to the gallery where they were auctioned 'blind' (no signatures on the front, so you didn't know whose work it was) and I was pleased to hear that mine fetched £150. The boat is actually from the harbour and the model is Leyla Rose performing her mermaid act. I had always wanted to portray Leyla as a bit of an evil mermaid capturing her sailors, so a bit of fun for me made some money for the Pittenweem Gala Day fund...happy times!

I'm a broken doll

I have not been on here for some time as my back broke: I have had herniated disks in the past but it was hard to remember just how sore back pain is. I have nerve damage in the left foot from the disk herniation three years ago, but this time, the old foot went just as numb and droppy, like an old piece of meat hanging off my ankle. In the painting I collaged a piece of text 'nothing left' found in the sunday paper. I liked the play on words for my missing left foot and also the feeling that since I couldn't paint, there was nothing left for me in a mental sense. The roses are to represent the fragility of my spine and the spikiness of the pain it gives me. I had been listening a lot to Paloma Faith's I'm a broken doll, so the idea kind of stuck.

The painting will be shown this Friday at the Aspect Prize exhibition in Paisley Museum and Art Gallery.



































When I couldn't paint, I found I could do a little drawing, so I spent a long time planning for the bigger paintings. These two wood panels (30 x 30cm) were printed up using oil paint and the drawn over. They were for an exhibition at the Glasgow Print Studio where the image had to have some printing in it. I chose montype as I couldn't get into the studio to the etching I really wanted to do. Hopefully, I will be able to go in soon, although this recovery is taking a long time.

Wild Card Kitty as the American Woman

A new painting which I feel is just about finished, except for the signature. It is based on an act by the fabulous Wild Card Kitty, a peformer based in Edinburgh. Her act consisted of a saucy love dance and strip for a bag of Macdonald's finest fayre, which ends up all over her. It was one of the funniest acts I have seen in a long time so I had to make my tribute to her art.
The stars in the background and spray painted on as I feel a bit of graffiti inspired works moulding themselves in my head.

New Limited Edition Art Prints for Sale

I have just finished my new sales section of my website that I have called Cheap Thrills.
I called the shop this as I wanted to offer more resonably priced art for all my lovely admirors out there, who maybe didn't have so much disposable cash lying around, and of course most of the art is a little saucy and hopefully, a little thrillling!
I have started by selling Limited Edition giclee prints of a selection of my paintings with only 30 prints of each image.

www.fionawilson.net/cheapthrills

TUNNOCKED ART EXHIBITION

What an April Fool's Day! I unveiled my saucy painting and a pair ot framed teacake tassles, at the Glasgow Print Studio's TUNNOCKED show last night. I went suitable attired in a red and white striped dress and made a teacake heart fascinator to match. Trevor wore a tassle t-shirt under his jumper and was giving everyone a wee flash.

I was very surprised how well the painting was received as you don't see much risque art in that gallery. A great time was had by all, and selling the tassles was the cherry on the teacake!

I am very excited by the opening of the TUNNOCKED exhibition tomorrow night at The Glasgow Print Studio. It promises to be a bit of a silly night with people dressing up for the occasion and free teacakes for all. My painting has appeared in a photo in the Scotsman newspaper today, so here is the full painting showing that naughty use of our national treasures - the Tunnock's teacake! The painting is 36 x 36cm on box canvas and is painted in oil.

A small photo of the work in-situe is in today's online scotsman which you can read here:-

http://news.scotsman.com/glasgow/Great-taste-in-art-with.6192400.jp