Triptych

thanks! and nah, am a very happy chappy!

John – this one has me stumped. It’s brilliant work, very powerful… then you say it’s a self portrait… but you are happy. Mmmmm what to say, I’ll have to come back to that.

too gorgeous of a figure to mutilate!

John Douglas dude that must really sting put some tcp or something on it.
Really its good and all but dude again poor old you how did it happen and the referencing Manegna and all that St Sebastian iconism what’s happening tells use about it let it out for your own mental health, dude I am shocked not by the picture well just a bit but dude again ouch! was it an accident with a low flying hedge trimmer or something really this is tortured stuff and SnapHappy I am surprised by your comments can you not see this man is in turmoil and Herkissable, no need to remind this poor soul about his dilemma really, finally keep up the good work and we have a expression in Scotland that might help in this type of situation keep your pecker up oh on second thoughts skratch that oh I see you already have.

John
WOW…........ that looks painful that last one. Interesting work, would expect no less from you of course

Emotional driven work! You have quite a talent! :D

the thing I love most about this work is you just put it out there, without any kind of rationalisation, and sit back and watch the reactions. And with such powerful reactions, the work is very successful.

Btw., the visualization is brilliant, you’re a genius colourist. bastid. :)

John … provocative as always …. that’s why I love your work. Give me more “jabs in the eyeballs and a kick up my perception” please. You see beyond the skill of image making.

ouch!....
love to see these on a wall.great pose and shading.

Stopped back in to see if you were still bleeding

still bleeding – happily. Thanks for all these commetns, much appreciated, not sure if they’re making my grin or the overdose of anti-depressants.

interesting work

This has to be on of the best self portraits I have come across. So original and mysterious. It leaves the viewer to interpret the image however they like, and I’m sure we all have very different interpretations of this image…which in a way, exposes our own weaknesses and insecurities, and so the portrait becomes personal to the viewer. Amazing. Well done!

wow this is powerful art work, raw, vunerable and expossed…love the triptych….first time seeing your work so hi…

Hi Kym, thanks so much! And thanks drjones and antanas, much appreciate the commetns. I try and make art that can interpretted several ways, and in process hope it reveals as much about the viewer 9and their outlook) as my own.

hey, have looked through a lot of your work now and really impressed by,well,everything. Everythings so bizzarre and surreal that it works so amazingly.love all your work, its very original and very blunt. love it.

Thanks claire, love your work too!

Powerful imagery John. Reminds me of a painting of Saint Sebastian tied to a tree with arrows in him..

Vic

Thanks Vic – yeah playing with the sebastian archetype, overcoming suffering in order to heal and all that

don’t know how i missed this…. very moving….. truley touches me john…...........b

How did I miss this one ! The defiant nature of the man and all the adversity just blows me away.

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