Website up

Its taken a while but i have finally made a little website! its found at

www.josephloughborough.co.uk


Have a look around!
cheers

Hand coloured woodcuts

Limited Edition of 15
Hand coloured wood cut on 200gsm watercolour paper

Title - Here we are again
Size - 32/24cm
Price including uk postage - £30

drop me an email at illjoseph@hotmail.com
or go to http://illjoseph.bigcartel.com/
cheers

small is beautiful

Three framed paintings for the small is beautiful xmas run! at http://www.edgeart.co.uk/index.php

Rump Show

Another show in bristol next week! its gonna be a busy weekend

Advent series

Needles to Port

Chalk cliffs
calcium build up
isle of wight
heroin
danger
needles
port holes

The twilights will rob me

A commission based on a poem

Update

Hello,

hope your well and enjoying the summer!

Here are a few things i would like to keep you updated on.

Due to the interest of the mdf pieces i produced a few months back, i have released a series through Art el at the super affordable price price of £35 each! Check
http://www.art-el.co.uk/collections/illjoseph

I have also donated a piece of work to the get dring mobile cause!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27892381@N04/sets/72157622409173930/

Over the last few weeks i have been busy making mono prints (a drawing technique) and making them into books! each book contains 20 of these drawings and are priced at £75 each.
http://banksyforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=artwork&action=display&thread=40293

Finally, Myself and Jamie Shaw are having a joint show in Chichester at the end of October in the 'i am joy gallery' http://www.iamjoy.co.uk/thejoygallery.shtml
It would be great to see you there!
There are some group shows coming up soon in the london area that i will keep you posted on!
New paintings are also up on http://www.flickr.com/people/illjoseph/
and an updated price list is availabe on request that corresponds to the sets there!

All the best

joe

Blue Dress Dreams

'This looks like a bit of a break from your more identifiable works Jo. I like it, great use of colour and a funky abstract 3D feel to it.

What part do you feel the text plays in these pieces? Maybe a bit of an immaterial question I suppose, as it does add a kind of extra dimension, but I'm curious, are there literal references to your subject matter or inspiration? Or is it more liberal, sort of a free association thing that flows naturally when you're in the groove?'

Hey ya heavyconsumer,
glad you like it!these paintings are more experiments exploring a different way of making something!if there is an element that really appeals to me i will develop it back into the style you would be more familiar with! Sometimes my work is completly off the cuff,free association as you put it, but it all depends on my mood.My angular abstracts are explorations of colour and space on a canvas where as my figures are more based around exploration of the body and its shapes.
The most literal referance to a meaning within my work can be found in works like augustine and the silence
http://www.flickr.com/photos/illjoseph/3813977975/
where a story or situation(oftern surreal/subjective) is been described.I would hope there is still a degree of ambiguity for you to fill in your own blanks.thats the joy of reading a painting;we all read differently.
All the paintings i produce will contain elements of thousands of personal memories and inspirations from life and culture.wouldnt know where to start with them ...seaweed,bones,driftwood,concrete,grunwald,schiele,olives,rotting chipboard,drums...
this is where the texts pops out.sometimes a story about the painting,sometimes me ranting about the taxman,some in pigeon french, oftern illegible.
An old essex writer ,richie phoe, got me into handstyle which worked its way into the pot!
Then i saw some work in an old urban art mag of someone embedding traditional handstyle under earthy layers of paint and loved it!that turned out to be parla of course!
wow....ranted on a bit!
hope that gives ya a vauge idea.I wouldnt want to be too specific
peace

look at those men in blue hitting the men in red with golf clubs.dont say anything daddy cos they might hit you too.
comon u blues....

Pompy Boy

Pompy boy.
Lack of responsibility producing a position of responsibility.choice...or maybe not.

Augustine and the silence

Augustine and the silence...

This could be considered a revival of an older style of work to those who know my older pieces! I wanted to produce a piece with a surreal undertone that could be read in many ways.I have been looking a lot at ken curries work and loved the silence and simplicity with his work and the rumbling carnage evident in others. This piece is split by a silent character and one less so.

I will keep this blog updated with new work but if you are interested in my older stuff check
http://www.flickr.com/photos/illjoseph/