recent images….Liverpool

'die, means what it means'

'tate liverpool'

'albert dock, wheel behind'

'pink elephant (trunk is up, means good luck)'

'killer gull & bike rider'

'killer gull, stalking the lunchers'

'liverpool prick'

'feet & river mersey'

'today's specials'

'full english'

Filed under: Arts & Culture, Life & Style, albert dock, full english, killer gulls, liverpool, MichelleMarieMacnamara, tate liverpool

Insert Your Name Here

 

Insert Your Name Here (60cm x60cm)

Filed under: Arts & Culture, artist, michelle macnamara, michelle tatnell, MichelleMarieMacnamara, paintings

The Death of the Apple Tree

 

Death of the Apple Tree (60cm x 60cm)

Filed under: Arts & Culture, artist, death of the apple tree, eat more greens, MichelleMarieMacnamara, paintings

B is for Britain

 

B is for Britain (60cm x 60cm)

Filed under: Arts & Culture, artist, britain, color, MichelleMarieMacnamara, new paintings

It’s oh so quiet

Listen up……

As a youngster brought up on a diet of musicals and old movies, this post-modern take on that ‘technicolor’ style really floats my boat. Love it…Genius…

Today i mostly want to hang out with Bjork!

Filed under: Arts & Culture, Music & Noise, Video & Moving Image, bjork, its oh so quiet, music, musicals, post modern, technicolor

My studio….

….where paintbrushes go to die.

I don’t know why i do this but i manage to do it every time I finish a painting.

Regardless of size of the picture, the time it took to paint, the subject matter, regardless of the money and time I spent carefully choosing them, individually, like precious pieces of gold, regardless of needing them the next day for another painting and whether I used 5 or 6 brushes or if I only used one…….without fail I will ruin them.

Although they are my beloved magic wands throughout the painting process, when my picture is finished they are tossed to the side, in my excitement, into the graveyard of used and abused painting tools.

So if you are a deliciously new paintbrush, soft and supple, untouched by oil or medium waiting patiently in a Liverpool art supply shop…..

….beware!

Filed under: Arts & Culture, Humour & Irony, Words & Rants, liverpool, my studio, paintbrushes, studio

John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize

‘Devolution’ was painted in February 2010, specifically for entry to the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize. It is part of a collection of works called ‘The Blue Series’ where I explore the nature of Man’s relationship with himself as a spiritual being, compared his egotistical side, with all his maniacal actions and desires and whether these pathological needs, fed by society norms and inbred sources of media, are destroying our path towards spiritual evolution. Or is man destined to regress to his bestial tendencies and form, using primitive language as a form of communication, focusing prejudice and intolerance on others. Waging personal or global wars on those different than him, or in discordance with his beliefs.

'Devolution' Oil on Canvas 122 X 152cm

The ‘modern condition’ is all to apparent in these works. They depict the physical devolution of man, through the misrepresentation of mythological creatures. This reality is dark and cumbersome, some are pushed and pulled into the plasticity of mass consumption, while others morph into one another, having given up on individual thought long ago. Some are on the edge, being given a choice to learn and create for themselves. The choice to think outside their boxes, to not ignore the propaganda but to question it. The choice to turn off their televisions and pick up a book. The choice to open their eyes and see the world as it really is, not how they are told it is.

Filed under: Arts & Culture, Uncategorized, contemporary art prize, devolution, imagery, john moores, john moores painting prize, liverpool, liverpool john moores, michelle macnamara, michelle tatnell, MichelleMarieMacnamara, paintings, the blue series

Redbrick Bluestone

The colour of the buildings in town are much brighter today. I think it’s the recent commissions. Drawing all those bloody buildings. Desperately searching for colour, trying to draw it out and make it better than it seems.

Most of the structures are old. Except where they were bombed in the war. Those ones have been replaced by 20^th century disasters. Blue-tiled shipping containers placed systematically atop plastic boxes. No love, no detail. Just empty plastic monsters looming overtop the red chimney’s.

Looking closer and closer and closer until I’m inside the bricks completely surrounded by red ochre breathing in the dust, swallowing it like it was air.

The moss on the bluestone is emerald green.  Glowing, in it’s own slow glory. Ever pulsating spreading farther and farther over the hard dark surface. Only seen by the naked eye over generations. It’s free to do what it wants any old time. They should write a song about it.

Enveloped by the soft comforting layer, the bluestone creaks and groans.

It’s old today. Happy birthday it murmurs to itself.

No one else to listen.

Not the moss or the Gulls.

And the sky is too far away to notice.

Filed under: Arts & Culture, Humour & Irony, Words & Rants, commissions, happy birthday, liverpool, sadness in everyday things, the egg cafe

Portraits

This is an example of one of the drawings I did recently for a very proud Mum. If you would like one of your Baby, or Someone Special in your Family, please get in touch.

Affordable price on Application.

Email me on macnamaramichelle@gmail.com

Filed under: Arts & Culture, Uncategorized, artist, commissions, imagery, MichelleMarieMacnamara, portraits

John Lennon Interview

Even if you aren’t a fan of John Lennon (although if you’re not, shame on you), this animation is fantastic!

Filed under: Arts & Culture, Music & Noise, Video & Moving Image, america, animation, artist, getting high, imagery, john lennon, life experience, liverpool, surreal