Egosurf.
Terrible photo of another painting for the “Recession Session” Xmas show at Recoat.
Need to get a new camera!
Opens this Friday 20th November.
Es Muss Sein!
Acrylic on Discarded Cardboard. 39×32cm
The String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135, by Ludwig van Beethoven was written in October 1826 and was the last substantial work he finished.
Under the introductory slow chords in the last movement Beethoven wrote in the manuscript ”Muß es sein?” (Must it be?) to which he responds, with the faster main theme of the movement, “Es muß sein!’” (It must be!).
Recoat Gallery. Recession Session Show.
I’ve got a few pieces in Recoat’s ” Recession Busting” Show.
All work falls into 4 price categories.
£25, £50, £75 & £100.
Mental line up of folk, check flyer for full details.
Opening Fri 20th Nov 7-10pm
See you there!
Recoat Gallery
323 North Woodside Road, Glasgow.
Recoat Gallery. Xmas Show. 2009
Boo Hoo.
Acrylic on Canvas. 50×80cm
One of the pieces I have in the (as yet untitled) Recoat Holiday Show on the 20th of November.
I suggested “Don’t Eat Black Snow” but Im not sure if they will go for it as a title (genius is seldom recognized in ones own lifetime!)
There’s a pretty mental list of artists contributing, will get flyer up once I get it through.
4 price categories at the show £25, £50, £75 & £100.
Grab yerself a xmas bargain!
Cardboard Shelter Project
Did a wee thing for the Cardboard Shelter Project which aims to raise funds for Homeless Charities.
If your in the area pop in. Work ranges from £40 to £125.
Grab a bargain + its for a guid cause!
From 6-9pm @ The Crisis Skylight Cafe. Newcastle.
El Hombre Invisible. Lyken. 2009
Acrylic on cardboard. A4 (ish)
For the Cardboard Shelter Project.
Reckon I’m gonna do some more hand painted type things.
Jaze & Lyken. Jaze’s First Piece Since 1986. Dundee. 2009
Yesterday I had the great pleasure of painting with Jaze who was one of the first writers in Dundee who began painting in about 83/84.I remember copying some of his & the other older writers stuff from the walls into my school jotter around 86 or so.
Jaze got into a bit of bother with the old painting in 86 and quit graff to join the army.
This was his first piece in 23 years.
Unfortunately it was raining but never the less it was brilliant to paint with him. All his references etc are totally non graff & pre hip hop. He couldn’t quite believe we were able to paint in broad daylight & that we didn’t have to wait for some of the colours to dry to put a second coat on on!
Probably the best day I have ever had painting.
Lyken & the Existential Funkateers
Colour.
Now thats quite a good thing isn’t it?
After the monotone steezoids of Haunted Graffiti thought it was time to introduce a bit of the old colour into proceedings again.
This is a digital sketch worked up from scans of some recent paintings.
Kind of the direction the next series of paintings are going to go in for me & Elph’s next show where we intend expand what we have been doing but really bug out on the sci fi tip.
Would like the finished paintings to be as intricate as this sketch, should be easy enough……
Might even do a piece this week.
Haunted Graffiti Exhibition. Opening Night. 18/09/2009
Some flicks from the opening night of me & Elph’s Show at Recoat Gallery in Glasgow.
Thanks to Amy, Ali, Hannah & Tom for all their hard work!
Artwork available for sale via:
Smother Party. Song & Video by Elph One & Lyken Love
One of the photos by Pure from the day Elph & I shot the Video for the song we had made for the “Haunted Graffiti” Exhibition at Recoat Gallery, Glasgow.
Watch the video here enjoy!
Was great fun setting up a green screen in my living room.
Song is called “Smother Party” bit of a skewed love song.
Might tidy up the song at a later date & try and get it released.
Video looked great at the show displayed on an old circular JVC Portable Black & White TV that Ali from Recoat suspended from the ceiling.
Show runs until 18th of October & all my work for the show is available to buy online here: lykenlove.bigcartel.com,
Sales handled & dispatched by Recoat Gallery.
Haunted Graffiti. Elph One & Lyken Love. Sept 18. Recoat, Glasgow.
Me & Elpho’s show starts this Friday (18th) at recoat 7 to 10pm.
Got a few things to finish but essentially good to go. Come along if your in toon!
Blurbo for show below:
Haunted Graffiti. New Work by Elph One & Lyken Love.
Within their first collaborative exhibition Lyken & Elph plan to take over Recoat by covering the walls and windows with discarded architectural drawings and blueprints, that will act as a canvas for a mural and a backdrop to a series of paintings, drawings, prints and a specially commissioned song & video. Haunted Graffiti is part of a long time collaboration & friendship between Elph & Lyken stretching back some 16 years, mixing machines & lettering and a few things in between.
The pair have been mixing programs that should be used for scientific purposes with random image generators to create shapes & forms to use as digital ideas & sketches for the finished works.
The show will run till the 18th October open Tues to Sun 12-6pm
Canned Good Interview with Lyken. Sept. 2009
Interview with me at Canned Goods. If you fancy reading some waffle check it oot!
Big thanks to Jon. http://www.canned-goods.co.uk/graffiti-interviews/lyken-love/89/
Flyer for next months show atInterview. Home Plus Scotland. Aug-Sept Issue.
Got a wee interview in the new issue of Home Plus Scotland Magazine about the forthcoming “Haunted Graffiti” show with Elph at Recoat. It was really good fun to do and Ian Monk the photographer was pretty inspiring to hang out with.
So if your looking to buy a mag that covers everything from Interiors to manky Scottish Graffiti Writers you need look no further.
There must be something slightly wrong with his camera though as I’m sure I’m skinnier than that, ahem….
“Ryze” by Lyken. Character & “Vera” by Vera. Dundee. 2009
Two hour Blitzkreig earlier for Mr Rize.
Going to do a bunch of different writers names to get out of my comfort zone.
Some might say that I ran out of room and
had to get Vera to put the “E” of Ryze on the characters hat.
Well if thats what they reckon then who am I to argue….
Lyken. Shankhill, Belfast. 2009
My piece from Meeting of Styles, Belfast on the Peace Line
with Smug, Gaz Mac, Waf & Tesda.
Strange to be painting in an area and on a surface with so much significance.
It seemed like already the graffiti had become a small part of the story of the wall as the taxi drivers had begun to incorporate it in their tour guide speel as they ship car loads of tourists to and fro all day long.
Big thanks to Dris, Rask & Plum.
Haunted Graffiti. New Work by Elph One & Lyken Love
From Artslant.com on myself and Elph’s forthcoming show:
On 18th September, 7-10pm, we’re opening a really exciting exhibition. A show from two well-known Scottish Graffiti artists and noteable pioneers who were among the very first in Scotland to begin painting graffiti artwork in the 1980s.
Within their first collaborative exhibition, they plan to take over Recoat by covering the walls and windows with discarded architectural drawings and blueprints, that will act as a canvas for a mural and a backdrop to a series of paintings, drawings and prints.
Elph and Lyken met 16 years ago, and are now close friends, sharing a mutual appreciation of movies, comic books and general geekery. Now that they are formalising their collobarotive artistic relationship there is no doubt that the two artists will create something amazing at Recoat.
The show will run till the 18th October open Tues to Sun 12-6pm.
Hope you can make it down.
Amy and Ali.
Recoat Gallery
323 North Woodside Road
Glasgow
G20 6ND
00 44 141 341 0069
The Glass Fist
Letters by me, character by Mr Vera.
Theme was crap superheroes.
Loosly based on the sketch from last post.
Torrential rain right at the last meant I couldnt do highlights
& some bits but it’s entirely my own fault as I had spent a whole day
dicking around & talking nonsense.
Too many good heads painting to mention!
Lyken. VK, WO. Dundee. 2009
On the way back from painting two girls laughed at me on my bike.
You would think they had never seen a 36 year old man on a bmx before.
Doubt they would be too impressed by my Spider man jammies.
Lyken. Manchester. 2009
Day after Hub Jam.
Part of a larger wall With Rize, Rask, Tase & Chocs, Joiner Here
Thanks to Kelzo for Hooking us up!!
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