Oil on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed certificate of authenticity.

This is one of several older artworks that I’ve put up onto Bluethumb recently. It’s a very good opportunity to buy early artwork that displays the starting points of the ideas, colours and style that are developing and emerge later in my artistic career.

This work was based around my earlier hobby of stargazing. The combination of enjoying both the heavens and Van Gough combined into this great piece that one art director called, “cheeky”. This is one of my favourite pieces and it was good to get in their with old Vinny. I had a lot of fun checking out his painting “in depth”, so I could copy it, and I hope he can see that I admire his work. Mind you, he was a cranky fellow. He painted his work, “Starry Night”, whilst looking through the barred window of his room at the Saint-Paul de Mausole in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, 15 miles from Arles.

Vincent had read about comets in a magazine and the painting accurately depicts the position of Venus and Aries at the time of painting: 4 am, June 1889. I repainted it nearly 100 years later and I like that connection.

This painting, arrives stretched, ready to hang on a quality frame, and is finished with a double varnish coat. It is packaged securely in a shipping crate and is well safeguarded with protective layering. My work comes with a certificate of authenticity and often contains notes on the artwork’s providence.