nice.....

Nothing wrong with that though.Bring on the strange and the weird.

Wouldnt worry about that Joseph, an Artist once told me that the thought of me owning a work of his made his flesh creep, he is Austrian so i think it was translation thing. Like this one btw Joseph.

Skateboarder,footballer and now naturist !!

Hey ya heavyconsumer,
glad you like it!these paintings are more experiments exploring a different way of making something!if there is an element that really appeals to me i will develop it back into the style you would be more familiar with! Sometimes my work is completly off the cuff,free association as you put it, but it all depends on my mood.My angular abstracts are explorations of colour and space on a canvas where as my figures are more based around exploration of the body and its shapes.
The most literal referance to a meaning within my work can be found in works like augustine and the silence
www.flickr.com/photos/illjoseph/3813977975/
where a story or situation(oftern surreal/subjective) is been described.I would hope there is still a degree of ambiguity for you to fill in your own blanks.thats the joy of reading a painting;we all read differently.
All the paintings i produce will contain elements of thousands of personal memories and inspirations from life and culture.wouldnt know where to start with them ...seaweed,bones,driftwood,concrete,grunwald,schiele,olives,rotting chipboard,drums...
this is where the texts pops out.sometimes a story about the painting,sometimes me ranting about the taxman,some in pigeon french, oftern illegible.
An old essex writer ,richie phoe, got me into handstyle which worked its way into the pot!
Then i saw some work in an old urban art mag of someone embedding traditional handstyle under earthy layers of paint and loved it!that turned out to be parla of course!
wow....ranted on a bit!
hope that gives ya a vauge idea.I wouldnt want to be too specific
peace

Hello all,Over the last few weeks i have been making a series of A4 hand made books (Alongside other things).

Each book has a collection of 20 Original mono print drawings in it! Every book is completly unique and each drawing completly different!
here are some examples of the type of images inside



and on the next page ect













if any one is interested in price and availabitity please email me at illjoseph@hotmail.com or pm me
cheers

HI Illjoseph, cool books. really like the monoprints stuff. A touch of Tracey Emin!

those looks nuts.

Mono printing is a drawing technique. Paper is laid over ink that has been rollered onto a flat surface, like glass.A drawing is made on the front of this paper and then the other side has the reversed print on it, pressed through! I gives a simple drawing a subtle grainy effect.

Here are some pages from book 1

Yeah nice and great idea.

Cheers.....

Another little commission i have been beavering away on!

130-160cm Acrylic,spraycan,oil and charcoal on canvas

Fantastic piece mate. Always like those mosaic elements of yours and that blanket is quality. Love the colours. In fact this is one of my faveourite pieces of yours I think. Lucky punter!

Joe you have got such talent!! Never stop doing it man, you're gonna go far

Cheers guys,
time flies when you get in the zone!
Always interested in the structures of hands!will be workin on some larger hand exploratins soon!
peace