You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !Welcome to ARTBEAT64, the home of Rock'n'Roll artwork. I am a freelance artist specialising in music and pop culture related work, gaining inspiration from my own passion. I can be called upon to do portraits, prints, greetings cards, tattoo designs, jacket paintings, record/cd & bookcovers, back drops, artwork for bands, you name it and I'll have a go.
I work in various media & tend to favour bold arylics on canvas. I have held many exibitions locally in the Norfolk area. I exibit regularly in Liverpool and also sell my work in my ebay store.
I've been artistic since I was a kid & did art qaulifications at school & college. After moving to Norwich and working a couple of mundane factory jobs I finally took the plunge and went self employed as an artist. I naturally combined my love for Rock'n'Roll music & culture and ARTBEAT64 was born. My first solo exhibition in March 1998 was at the Theatre Royal in Norwich to coincide with the 'Buddy' musical.">
This was very succesful & led to a long term friendship with Buddy Holly expert & writer Alan Mann who commissioned me to create the cover design for his latest 'Buddy Holly' A-Z book. Since then I've also designed the cover for Alans 'Buddy & Elvis' book.
">I've exhibited regulary at Norwich's Theatre Royal and various other local theatres as well as selling & displaying my work at Rock'n'Roll festivals/weekenders, jukebox fairs, guitar shows, art fairs and so on.
Cinema City in Norwich also invited me to exhibit there several times to accompany special one off screenings of Iconic films, 'Elvis Thats The Way It Is' for which I exhibited a collection of Elvis Presley art and 'Hard Days Night' with a collection of Beatles and John Lennon pieces.
Myself and Susies love for the Rock'n'Roll and Beat scene of 1960s Merseyside led to our first visit to Liverpool in 2000. While there we met the currator of the Liverpool Academy Of Arts June Lornie during it's annual Beatles 'Come Together' art exhibition and she keenley invited me to enter several pieces for the following year which I was proud to do. Both pieces sold the next year and I was asked to send several more to replace them and they too were sold.">The success of my first pieces to be shown in Liverpool led to a great friendship with June and the gallery and I've been entering the Beatles and other open exhibitions there every year since. However the biggest thing to come out of all this was the offer to put on my own solo exhibition at the Academy in Liverpool in 2003 on the subject of Merseysides Rock'n'Roll and Beat scene in the 1950s and 60s that I entitled 'Scouse Beat'. This was a very exciting opportunity for me to express my love for the cities musical heritage through my art and it attracted the attention of many musicians from various 60s Liverpool Beat outfits, some who I had already met on previous visits. Some of these included Billy Kinsley from the Merseybeats, Ian Edwards from Ian And The Zodiacs, Teddy Taylor from Kingsize Taylor And The Dominos and others. However the truly special part for me was the man who kindly accepted my request to open the event, Albie Wycherley the brother of Scouse rocker Billy Fury who we'd met previousley at a Fury weekender. Along with his and Billy's mother Jean it was a proud moment for me when Albie, also known as Jason Eddie who recorded some cool Freakbeat records himself in the 60s for Joe Meek, introduced my collection on the private view evening.MORE TO COME SHORTLY, THIS MYSPACE MALARKY TAKES TIME GEEES
