PIGSY Art on the Move!

This has been a busy week with lots of art packing and arranging of shipping. I’m sending some oversize artworks to Ireland for my next show which is in a very large venue. Due to Brexit, it has proved challenging arranging the movement of these pieces. Deliveries to Ireland can no longer go through the UK as they are now classed as a third country. Along with Brexit, Covid has also caused further challenges. Normally there would be lots of trucks going between Ireland and Spain (or other mainland European countries) and so finding a spot on a van would be no trouble at all. However due to Covid there is very little movement between countries so there has been difficulties - I even found it hard to get my boxes booked on to a flight as freight due to flights being cancelled and consolidated. BUT there is light at the end of the tunnel and things are getting better - finally last week I got confirmation from a transporter that they would be able to schedule in the art for movement. So it is all good, and all go! I’ll be packing art all this week after an art photo session with a local photographer on Tuesday - all of my art created in the last few months is now being photographed and documented.

Artlife

It’s a busy time for sure and I seem to be constantly on the phone or answering emails but this suits me as I like to be constantly occupied with something…….quiet and calm doesn’t interest me.

One of the things that has kept me busy is art sales and deliveries, see below for a wrap up of some recent sales and details of new homes and locations for PIGSY art.

PIGSY in Prague

PIGSY in Prague has a nice ring to it! I can ship art anywhere in the world and was pleased when someone contacted me through instagram to arrange the transport of a PIGSY art work to them in Prague, Czech Republic. It arrived promptly to them in a few short weeks and they then dropped me a line to let me know how happy they were with their new art piece.

Pictured below is the piece when it was hanging in La Casa Amarilla above a series of skulls that are framed on a linen backing. The flower paper study that is now in Prague is a floated A4 sheet in a custom timber frame that is a bespoke frame that was fabricated here in Malaga to my specifications.

Singapore Art Sales

I was proud to take part in the Artxplor Event in Singapore for The Ireland funds. This event consisted of a group of Irish Artists and Asian Artists and one of the art pieces I submitted was auctioned with the full price being donated to The Ireland Funds in Singapore. The other two pieces were sold in the Artxplor event with a gallery showing running in Tanglin Shopping Centre for a few months. It’s exciting to know that PIGSY artworks are now gracing the walls of homes in Singapore.

Hangman Sculpture heads to a new home in Malaga

Talk about International art! Recently I sold a PIGSY sculpture that had been featured in my recent “I Went to Mass” art exhibition in La Casa Amarilla in Malaga and although it will be staying here in Malaga where it will be placed pride of place in a new home that will be occupied in September, it was actually bought by a German art collector. The stories around the collectors of my art are always interesting and it was great to meet these collectors when they visited La Casa Amarilla to collect their new piece. After they collected their artwork they went to the cafe across the street for refreshment and luckily I was passing the gallery at the same time and popped in to say hello to the Gallery Director. He immediately directed me to the cafe and I was pleased to get to chat to the collectors. Meeting new people, fans and collectors of my art is definitely one of the positives of being an artist!

Here’s pics of the “Hangman 2” sculpture that has left the gallery and gone to a its new home.

Skull bound for Torremolinos for a book publication

The final piece that is gone to it’s new home in recent times is this small skull paper study. This piece is titled “Skull: 3 Wounds” and the three wounds represent the Social, Emotional and Behavioral states. It is semi-autobiographical and represents psychological scars embedded in my brain. This piece is now gracing a wall of a home in Torremolinos and will also be published in a book by an author who is a now collector of PIGSY art works. The author intends to crop down the artwork to feature the skull in the book as a chapter heading.

I always like to hear a follow up about my artworks that sell and go to private collections. It is fun to receive photos from collectors showing where they hung my artworks. I am really looking forward to seeing the published book in the future with this skull artwork featured as an illustration on one of the pages. It’s things like this that make me feel happy to be an artist, creating work and collaborating with others. It adds to the human experience as human connection is so very important to us all, and never more so than this time as we come out of a period where we have had to deliberately stay physically away from each other. We need to rebuild the disconnections that have been imposed upon us in order to stop the spread of the Covid. But I truly believe that we are on the turn with the rollout and take up of vaccines - we will prevail!

Contact me if you are interested in a PIGSY piece for your home and we can discuss your interests, area it will be hung and the size of your walls. I can then recommend some pieces or of course you can choose a specific piece. With shipping available from Marbella to Missouri I can make sure you can get a delivery of art to add to your collection and fill your life with neo-expressionist color!

See details on my website of the framed Paper Studies which are very accessible and affordable - and due to their size they ship easily to worldwide destinations.