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From: Vastin Pance Category: Art Date: 01 January 2010 Time: 12:18 PM Review: Thought I'd see what the nonse was all about, if its in the daily's it's usually been pickled by inhuman hands. Classically you would'nt call it art but I like the little (?) paintings of contemporary situations, I came to this looking for a more ascerbic interpretation of the contradictions in our society, y'know the ones the newspapers just ignore. The guy is an Artist in my opinion (Illustrator is a distinction accompanying his blog) and if it is'nt glaringly obvious that he's a raging nutter - then tha'ts got to be good from my perspective, as soon as the artfulness becomes "Scarfed" for example as in Gerald Scarf, that's when you just end up watching a nutter swearing at the telly in a brightly lit room with the curtains open. On the sofa next, sits Will Self and David Bailey trying to get a word in edgeways but then Jonathan Jones calls by and apologises for calling everyone a kunst - as if they were listening in the first place. Owain Thomas allows more than a bit of pathos, maybe painting does that, his picture of the Queen giving her speech is kindly but I wondered if the description of her speech about the war was critical. The Tiger Woods image also focused upon the human scale. A light touch maybe, but a welcome addition to the murky world on and off line news. Look forward to his rendition of Peter Moore, very very mysterious....