Original Owd Lasses are being launched (onto an unsuspecting public). Dare you look...?
The time has come to set them free. The Owd Lasses HQ is getting overcrowded and they are quite frankly bickering like a bag of budgies. Gift boxes have arrived and they are being released in batches into my etsy shop.
The Owd Lasses for those who aren't aware are paintings in celebration of the strong, sassy characters moving annonymously amongst us - now a little faded perhaps. The quiet older lady shuffling along to the Weigh and Save with her shopping trolley, you may not even notice her. But these women have lived a life, they have stories to tell and men still to chase. They aren't your cute grannies who knit oh no!! They are are remider that some of us too will get old. Next time you're stuck in a queue in the Post Office strike up a conversation with your neighbour, who knows they might tell you to mind your own beeswax or they could give you a fantastic tip for the 2.30 at Kempton Park...
To date the artworks have been available as cards and prints with the odd outing for the originals in a few solo shows. Times have changed and I have decided to release the originals too, let me know what you think. They are presented in hand painted, chunky, floating frames in a flat grey green colour which sets off the bright colours. They arrive in a gift box. Each comes with a printed back story, these stories come to me as I create each character and helps me bring them to life on the canvas- a ficticious tale of the life of each Owd Lass some poignant, yet always with a dark humour to give them that twinkle in the eye...