Urban Art Association

'Distortion' - speed painting based on the weather we're having in the South East with Storm Katie!

Done. Tremendous....looks really awesome.

'Silence' - Acrylic and spray paint on deep edged box canvas - Box framed - Currently on show 5th Base Gallery at my solo show 'Queen Of Neon' which runs until April 6th

This in one of my new works on canvas and a different series of works, taking the Geisha imagery with the traditional ideas of being brightly lit, bold, colourful and bright, and focusing more on the emotions and mood of the subject. With a look back to traditional oil painting, the subject emerges from the darkness, heavy shadows creating deep canyons of blackness, the folds of the Kimono, like mountain peaks. Abstract shapes picked out by the spot light reveal her face, the stillness and silence of the piece, she's lost in thought, the performance has ended, the lights have gone off, all is silent.

Thank you! It's now sold.

This painting is entitled 'Butterfly' and is a huge canvas, 72 x 48 inches.

In this work, I wanted to 'blur' the lines between the energetic movement and lights of my rainy city with the Geisha portraits and studies, to create something that enthuses this electric energy. I like the ideas that the Geisha is almost like a butterfly, emerging from the darkness, the folds of the kimono like the pupa, as the delicate beauty emerges from within. The paint drips, and the fluid nature of the colors add to a sense of movement and drama of the Geisha being revealed.

Great work -- thank you for sharing and good luck on the show!

'Light Dance' - Original acrylic and spray paint on canvas - 40 x 30 inches and currently on show at 5th Base Gallery 23 Heneage Street, Brick Lane as part of my 'Queen Of Neon' solo show - show runs until April 6th.

There is also a limited edition print available of this painting, signed and numbered and also a hand finished option available from the gallery.

This painting represents a transition between the energy and motion of my cityscapes, and rainy night scenes with the traditional Geisha style portraiture and imagery. I wanted to embody a sense of motion, and a snapshot of lights dancing, blurring, as though blinking and seeing a fleeting glimpse of this electric movement, these dancing shapes, contortions of light and colour, mixing together into a series of fluid, wave like shapes and brush strokes. The sense of dance and levity, a sense of electric energy and beauty. For me this painting bridges the gap between my works and ties together so many elements of light and colour, mood and atmosphere.

4 Geisha studies - 16 x 16 inches, Acrylic and spray paint on canvas - set of 4 / currently on show at 5th Base Gallery at my 'Queen Of Neon' solo show until April 6th

A series of studies depicting the beautiful form of the geisha cloaked in darkness. I wanted to paint images that hinted and suggested the form of the Geisha. Rather than the brightly spot lit, colourful and theatrical type images, I wanted to present her in a more subdued and atmospheric way. They focus on light and shadows, thin slithers of light pick out edges of the face and kimono, light dances from her hair ornaments, punctuating the darkness and giving form to the shapes as they emerge from the inky blackness. I love the way they emerge from the void.

Love that one Dan Kitchener

In recent years I have been fortunate to travel an awful lot and one thing has always bothered me, the boring, bland, grey or black luggage that people use, every time i collect my luggage I think, i am going to paint mine for my next trip! So as I am off to SOuthern Spain for a commission next week, i thought i'd paint my case, and now have started the ball rolling, so i am painting several pieces for customers, hand luggage and main luggage with different cities on! NYC, Tokyo and London pictured here!

Careful Dan, some might suggest you are influencing selling out

Thanks for the response!

Well with regards to 'selling out' i am an artist, and i paint on things, end of story really! I don't operate under some illusion of 'being secretive or street' etc etc, i do what i do.....street walls, canvas, digital or now suitcases, all the same to me, a surface to slap paint onto!

These are painted for me when i travel abroad on commissions, of which i have several major ones worldwide approaching, so thought it would be good to slap some paint on my luggage and take to new adventures,don't care about longevity and in fact look forward to the well travelled, beaten, battered and used appearance it will have at the end of the year...then again, they have a decent coat of hard varnish over them!

You made the original comment, so what do you mean by selling out!?

thanks for the reply Dan

I wouldn't be keen on the mass produced luggage, as tbh these were just for me, and each is hand painted and this aspect is the attraction to me. It's something out of the ordinary, not just a printed piece of plastic!

If artist do work more commercially, It's not 'selling out', as that feels like slightly school boy terminology ( no offence aimed at original person who made the comment ), we live in the real world, and have to earn a living. I just don't feel at them moment it's a direction I'd want my work to move towards.

Haaaaaa great story as I type hundreds of streets artists are rushing out to paint pieces with Kanye West in.