Author: Jon Hammer / ELATE

  • Andy Seize: Taking Pop Art to a New Level

    Andy Seize: Taking Pop Art to a New Level

    Andy Seize Andy Seize has been painting graffiti since the eighties now he’s taken pop art to a stunning new level as only an old school graffiti writer could. His show is on until Monday 13th July 2009 from 12 to 4pm. More after the jump… Andy Seize says: “This is my first major solo…

  • Oil on Canvas Where Essence Finds Form

    Oil on Canvas Where Essence Finds Form

    Where Essence Finds Form The Unnameable Major Problems Flux Rewind The Crystal Shells To see many more of my oil paintings and for full details and dimensions click here

  • Covent Garden Writers Bench – 25yr Reunion

    Covent Garden Writers Bench – 25yr Reunion

    Last Saturday 27th June I went along to the Covent Garden writers bench reunion to meet up with some very old friends, put some faces to old tags and drink some beer. The day started well with glorious sun….. I started hanging out there in 1986, but it had been a meeting point since ‘84.…

  • Tribute to London Graffiti Pioneers: Mixed Media on Canvas

    Tribute to London Graffiti Pioneers: Mixed Media on Canvas

    Tribute to London Graffiti Pioneers In this painting I have gone back to the gritty roots of UK graffiti, to show where it all started, tags, throw-ups and early pieces on London trains. The images from New York in the book Subway Art and the film Style Wars had radicalised fertile minds in 1984 where…

  • The Secret Life of Paint

    The Secret Life of Paint

      The Secret Life of Paint 2008 Mixed Media on Four Canvases 200mm x 200mm From ‘The Holographic Universe’ by Michael Talbot: …there is compelling evidence that the only time quanta ever manifest as particles is when we are looking at them. For instance, when an electron isn’t being looked at, experimental findings suggest that…

  • In The City, A Spectre

    In The City, A Spectre

    Into the city swept an old acquaintance with a familiar face… Who left the doors wide and welcoming for such a master? In The City, A Spectre: 2008: Red Oxide, Gesso, 24 carat Gold Leaf and Mixed Media on Mahogany and Teak 465mm x 518mm with doors open, front also decorated.

  • The Future of Computers

    The Future of Computers

    The Future of Computers: Mixed media on four canvases: 200mm x200mm What strange new lands coalesce and take form… …as the frontiers of technology meet the want of mankind? Published on: Jun 15, 2009 @ 16:47

  • Meeting of Styles

    Meeting of Styles

    My piece for Meeting of Styles 2009 corner of Brick Lane & Bacon Streetphoto © NoLionsInEngland 2009 Meeting of Styles London graffiti festival 2009 was held at the heart of the UK’s graff- land where Brick Lane meets Bethnal Green Road around the backstreets in Bacon Street, Sclater Street and along the Bethnal Green Road…

  • Meeting of Styles – Graffiti Fest to Hit Shoreditch

    Meeting Of Styles – London I will be painting at the daytime event on the streets… The International Meeting Of Styles will now be showcased at a one day aerosol and music festival in London on the 6th June 2009… Evening event cancelled- daytime event still on. The International Meeting Of Styles event will take…

  • It’s About to Blow – In Stages

    It’s About to Blow – In Stages

     In the time leading up to this work an unyielding ‘itch’ had gotten into my head, provoked by awareness of the instability, inefficiency and unaccountability of the systems which govern and power our planet. Every night I watched the news the ‘itch’ would increase, as report upon report drew my attention to the precarious threads…