Art For Sale

When We Were Fab

2011-08-10T16:58:00.000+01:00

When We Were Fab

A little taste of my new short story now available on Amazon Kindle at http://www.amazon.com/When-We-Were-Fab-ebook/dp/B005GFM6L0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312991485&sr=8-1

That year was the first year I made any real money. How much? Well, yes, values change don’t they? But a lot! It had begun to pour in. OK, I couldn’t have bought the biggest house in London or a major island in the Caribbean or anything like that. But basically I could do pretty much anything I pleased that summer.

I could have gone to Australia for weeks on end staying in the best hotels. I could have gone anywhere in the South Pacific for a couple of years without a problem. I could have taken two of the very finest hookers to The Riviera for the season and that would also not have been a problem.

So, to all intents and purposes I was loaded. Plus I had no ties. I could do what ever I wanted. After all the effort and disappointments of the last few years the feeling was heady. I was young but I can still remember thinking it was a special feeling and a special moment. I was free!

The strange thing is…when you are free what do you do? I was spoilt for choice...

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New Artworks for Sale on Saatchi Online

2011-08-08T11:53:00.000+01:00

Toto in the Snow Series

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The Brilliant Actors From "The Killing" (Forbrydelsen in Danish)

2011-06-13T11:19:00.001+01:00

I don't know if you saw The Killing from Denmark on BBC4 but it was absolutely brilliant. The best thing ever seen on British TV. This clip shows two of the actors in very different roles. The lady in the pink dress is Ann Eleonora Jørgensen who played Pernille and who must be the best actress in Europe and the man in the gown is Lars Mikkelsen who played Troels. And what a lovely setting for a play this is....Click here to see the clip

Over Rated Classics - On The Road by Jack Kerouac

2011-02-23T11:34:00.000Z

The BBC recently ran a series on forgotten classics - books that had been well thought of in their day but had faded from view over the years.

But what about over rated classics? How many books regarded as classics are really not very good and owe their popularity to some kind of special pleading by interested groups. I was forced to recognise this when finally getting round to reading On The Road by Jack Kerouac. The truth is...it is quite a tedious book and not at all what I expected.

I had always been led to believe that here was a letter from the other side: an untutored but naturally talented voice from a way of life way outside the conventional life that you and I lead.

It turns out that the Kerouac figure is actually quite conventional. The "story" is little more than "what we did on our holidays". Kerouac lives with his aunt and receives some kind of GI pension which he saves up so he can go to California from the East Coast.

To be authentic he really should have been a bum (albeit a clever bum) riding the railroad with no means of support and no home totally free from the rules and conventions that trammel us everyday folk.

But no! He sets out to hitchhike but fails miserably so he walks back into the city and gets a bus. This takes a lot of his money so he wires home to his aunt to send him some more. Sounds a lot like my university days...which were not very exciting.

And talking of university, the only real action is him hanging out with Dean Moriarty who basically gets drunk, smokes dope, screws women and flees when they get pregnant. Sounds a lot like Dirty Pete at Leeds University. And, frankly, you could get enough of Dirty Pete.

The only thing I like about him is the way he mixes with black people at a time in America when that was not the norm and, in particular, the way he recognises black beauty when that was pretty far from the norm too. Although I notice he never actually has a relationship with a black girl! Sorry...slipping into current PC speak there...never has sex with a black girl.

Which other classics do we think are over rated? Please leave a comment below but don't bother with Virginia Woolf. We all know about her.

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Inspired by Italy

2010-12-10T12:13:00.002Z

Bellagio

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Bob Dylan Going Electric II

2010-09-07T20:50:00.000+01:00

Bob Dylan Going Electric II

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Bob Dylan Going Electric

2010-09-07T19:19:00.000+01:00

Bob Dylan Going Electric

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On A Beach

2010-09-02T10:07:00.000+01:00

On A Beach
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English Rural Scenes

2010-08-21T16:48:00.000+01:00

A Boy's Own Life II

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My Four Rothkos

2010-07-19T22:37:00.000+01:00

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Rothko 1

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Rothko 2

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Rothko 3

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Rothko 4

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All these images ship worldwide

2010-07-19T21:13:00.000+01:00

I ship all these images worldwide. All are available either as prints on archival quality papers or framed. Please contact me direct on noel.aspill@googlemail.com or visit http://www.buy-art-for-sale.co.uk/
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Self Portrait

2010-07-09T09:19:00.000+01:00

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Cartagena Pescadores

2010-07-06T11:22:00.001+01:00

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Spain - the golden years. Hacienda de Roda

2010-07-02T10:05:00.000+01:00

Hacienda de Roda

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The Roda Series III

2010-07-02T10:03:00.001+01:00

Roda III

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The Roda Series II

2010-07-02T10:00:00.001+01:00

Roda II

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The Roda Series I

2010-07-02T09:56:00.001+01:00

Roda I

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Cartagena Pescadores

2010-07-02T09:25:00.000+01:00

Down by the harbour in Cartagena. Seafood, cava and sun.

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All Saints (with a halo)

2010-07-01T11:30:00.000+01:00

All Saints, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England
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Blair's Poodle

2010-06-30T11:57:00.001+01:00

This letter appeared in the Daily Telegraph when we suffered under the Blairist socialist occupation:

"Sir, I am becoming increasingly offended by references to our Prime Miinister as a "poodle". I have a black standard poodle called Toto. He is a big, strong dog: proud, brave and intelligent. Could you please desist from this slander?"

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City at Night

2010-06-28T09:38:00.001+01:00

Champagne, cocaine, cold sweat
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Lunch

2010-06-25T15:37:00.000+01:00

Just finishing lunch in Terroirs. Excellent food. Snails, bacon, garlic and parsley follwed by pot roasted quail, merguez, couscous. Excellent. Oh, and a few drinks.

Andy Warhol painting Debbie Harry

2010-06-24T19:54:00.000+01:00

Toto in the Snow

2010-06-24T19:14:00.001+01:00

This song was written by a friend of mine

2010-06-24T15:45:00.000+01:00

Summer in England

2010-06-24T15:11:00.000+01:00

Southwold I

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Southwold II

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Southwold III

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Southwold IV

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English Rural Scenes - The Barrowden Roofscape

2010-06-24T13:10:00.000+01:00

The Barrowden Roofscape

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Have you heard Robbie Robertson's new song? It is brilliant!

2010-06-24T12:03:00.001+01:00

Americana - Electric Los Angeles Sunset

2010-06-24T09:45:00.000+01:00

You have to love Los Angeles. The beach, the hotel and LAX

Electric Los Angeles Sunset

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Americana - '50s California

2010-06-24T09:39:00.000+01:00

I love California in the 1950s. I love the new houses, the sunshine and the swimming pools!

Good Vibrations

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The Most Beautiful Town in England

2010-06-23T12:56:00.001+01:00

All Saints (with a halo)

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More Americana - California Dreaming

2010-06-22T11:07:00.000+01:00

California Dreaming

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My web site is fast approaching completion

2010-06-22T11:03:00.001+01:00

PLease take a look at my web site. I am not quite ready to take orders but you can see quite a lot of the art already. Please click here:

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You can now see some of my work at the Saatchi Online Gallery

2010-06-22T11:01:00.001+01:00

You can see some of my work by clicking here:

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile//122941.html

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2010-06-21T10:28:00.000+01:00

A Boy's Own Life

2010-06-21T09:44:00.000+01:00

A Boy's Own Life

31 x 12 inches

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Trees freak me out...trees are so beautiful

2010-06-18T17:09:00.000+01:00

The Tree at Barrowden

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More Americana

2010-06-17T11:56:00.000+01:00

Electric Los Angeles Sunset

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Moon Units

2010-06-17T11:47:00.000+01:00

Moon Shining

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Moon Sighing

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Americana - 1950's America

2010-06-16T17:38:00.000+01:00

Good Vibrations

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Robbie Robertson - How to become clairvoyant

2010-06-16T11:10:00.000+01:00

Have you heard Robbie Robertson's new song "How to become clairvoyant". It is brilliant!

Woodstock, Upstate New York

2010-06-15T11:22:00.000+01:00

Woodstock Upstate New York - Fall

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Woodstock Upstate New York - Winter

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Woodstock Upstate New York - Night

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Woodstock Upstate New York - Going Electric

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On Blackfriars Bridge

2010-06-15T11:12:00.000+01:00

On Blackfriars Bridge I

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On Blackfriars Bridge II
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On Blackfriars Bridge III

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On Blackfriars Bridge IV

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This is the complete series - Peraleja Mondrian I

2010-06-11T12:22:00.000+01:00

Peraleja Mondrian I

Peraleja Mondrian II

Peraleja Mondrian III

Peraleja Mondrian IV

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First Post

2010-06-11T11:42:00.000+01:00

This is my first post. I suppose I will get the hang of it and make my posts more interesting as I go along. Then again, might not. See how I feel. This is the first image I am showing on here and it is one in a series of four. It was inspired by the Murcian painter and architect, Don Vicente Martínez Gadea.