Ahoy me hearties!

Has been a busy few weeks for both myself and mother nature over in old London-town. Daylight savings has ended and winter has reared its chilly head.

A couple of weeks ago, I accompanied Anthony to see a new exhibition in conjunction with his work Artisan Galleries. It was an interesting exhibition, the main drawcard was a certain story behind one of the paintings.

Artist Paul Karslake is the brother-in-law of Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood. Paul does a lot of celebrity portraits so it was no strange request that Keith Richards' wife comissioned him to produce one for her husband. Paul has always though of Keith as a bit of a pirate, so the final piece reflected these qualities.















As the tale goes, Johnny Depp was visiting one night for dinner and he noticed the new painting hanging on the wall. He had just received a script from his agent for a new Disney film 'Pirates of the Caribbean'. So the rest, as they say, is history.

The exhibition featured the original portrait and a brand new one as Keith's character in the upcoming third instalment of the film franchise.

I also have to mention that Anthony had been working with Paul to produce limited edition reprints for these and other paintings as seen below. Here's two of my favourites - the statue of David and the image of Twiggy.

Here's a pic of Ant beside the original, pretty clever guy that Ant!