I'd Rather Be The Devil (portrait John Martyn)

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Primary Influences :

Hedda Sterne, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, John Russell, Henri Mattise, Leonor Fini, Vincent Van Gogh & Salvador Dali

Secondary Influences : Remedios Varo, Victor Brauner, and Leonorah Carrington, Dorothea Tanning, André Breton, Man Ray & Marcel Duchamp

Biography :

Art, Music and Poetry came as naturally as breathing to me--- So, High School and University Art weren't really challenging enough and over the years I've made my own studies Much in the same way that I find religion and TM tedious, like Hedda Sterne I came up with my own take on that too

Nothing beats doing it - Doen'it ek sê

Musical Influences :  

"Top 40 Albums (aye ken wot I lyke)" 

John Barleycorn Must Die by Traffic ; CSN (debut) ; Déjà Vu by CSN&Y ; Graceland (Paul Simon) ; One Trick Pony (Paul Simon) ; Songs For Beginners (Graham Nash) ; Rubber Soul, Abbey Road and Revolver (Beatles), America (debut), Harvest & After the Goldrush (Neil Young) ; Thick As A Brick by Jethro Tull ; Led Zeppelin "IV" ; Hotel California (Eagles) ; [Hejira & Blue] by Joni Mitchell ; Stills by Stephen Stills ; Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd) ; Kaya by Bob Marley & The Wailers : Natty Dread by Bob Marley & The Wailers ; Coming From Reality (Rodriguez); Cold Fact by Rodriguez ; So (Peter Gabriel) ; Whatevers For Us (Joan Armatrading) ; Bless The Weather (John Martyn) ; The Whole Story (Kate Bush) ; [Taproot & Torched] by Michael Hedges ; Common One by Van Morrison ; The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Bleeding Heart (1968) ; Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks ; IMAGINE by John Lennon (Phil Spector joined John & Yoko in the production of the title track) & Double Fantasy by John & Yoko ; Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter & Pink Moon by Nick Drake ; Sting's "Soul Cages" & "Ten Summoner's Tales" ; "On The Beach", "DECADE" & "Tonight's The Night"  by Neil Young

Current Authors (reading) : Jane Austen, John Keats, Margaret Atwood, Albert Camus & Benjamin Hoff

Coffee Table : The Invisible Ones by Stef Penney, Never Let You Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert & The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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