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About Me


My name is Craig
I can do lots of things... walk, cook, talk, sleep, play dijeridoo... but mainly im known for painting...
I use oils mostly, on pretty big canvases...
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Newest pieces...
Rumble, Oil on canvas, 48 by 36
Cuckoos, Oil on canvas, 48 by 36
Hooligan, Oil on canvas, 48 by 28
More... click on the thumbnails to view a bit bigger
I was always drawing as a kid... only child... had a piece put in the Edinburgh museum of art at age 12... lotsa pressure to "do something" with my talent... thought, fuck that... just wanna doodle... anyway... acid happened... started making flyers and big florescent backdrops and weird floro sculptures for my mate Lee (DJ Murder by Sound) for the plexus parties at the vaults in Edinburgh 92/93... did murals on the entire interior of a club in Edinburgh (cant remember the name but its where they did Carbolic Frolic)... ended up in San Francisco to paint a mural at a new club there in 94(didnt actually happen)... but i did end up touring the techno circuit for 2 years... hanging art at 1015 Folsom, Boogie Buffet, Friends and Family, 150 Folsom, Megatripolis, Trocadero, CCC, Burning Man, Etc... then 96... broke my knee... 97... had a beautiful baby daughter, Aurora...98... went to live in an amazing A-frame house in the high Arizona desert to heal the knee, simplify, detox, and help bring up me new baby girl... 99... back to SF... hooked up with the Blue Room people from London, who had just started up in SF... became the organiser for all the art and installations for their monthly parties... always did the ambient room with all mines ;-)... then met John Wood (Tantra parties and the Late Night Coalition)... John became another private collector and also hired me as the art director for Tantra... the Late night Coalition (LNC) fought the city and now are in charge of party permits in SF... amazing!... more burning man... back to scotland for a year... knee surgery (at last)... did a bunch of paintings to give to all me old mates and relatives... 2004-now... back in the states... living in Tucson, Arizona... living simply... always painting and selling to my small group of private collectors... hanging with Aurora... amazing place... beautiful... 300 days of sunshine a year... huge university... people from all over... so... here for a little bit longer...

My Interests

remembering not to make the transient outside world as important as the immortal inner self, art, painting, drawing, evesdropping on conversations in coffeeshops, having conversations in coffeeshops, walking and talking with my daughter, playing backgammon with her too, having friends, making friends, reading, pondering, thinking, unthinking, films, music, believable information, traveling to new places (and usually staying in them for a while), staying healthy, dancing, martial arts, philosophy, totems, rally cars

I'd like to meet:

Chauncey Gardener

Music:

growin up........ 50's oldies, beatles, simon and garfunkle, madness, specials, adam and the ants, undertones. ........teenage_years........ motown, northern soul, jimi hendrix, who, stones, doors, small faces, kinks, arthur lee and love, donovan, nick drake, pink floyd, led zeppelin, david bowie, cream, king crimson, yaz(oo), stone roses, happy mondays, public enemy. ........(house music or nothing) years........ 808 state, tricky disco, G Benedetti, A Guy Called Gerald, Orbital, Orb, Brian Transeau, jam and spoon, caberet voltaire, Mr. C, Shamen, Hawke, Hardkiss bros. .......(DJ's)........ Mr. C, MBS(Murder by Sound), Derrick May, Cutmaster B, DJ Dad, Eddie Richards, Jeno, Ethan (Friends and Family), KJ(CCC), Liam Shy ........britpop........ lightning seeds, pulp, oasis, ........psytrance........ growling mad scientists, cosmic jokers, juno reactor, infinity project ........these_days........ always nick drake, theivery corporation, kruder and dorfmeister, chemical brothers, DJ Shadow, kings of leon, kings of convenience, ryan adams, Daniel Johnston, elliot smith, the smiths, strokes, snow patrol, Richard Ashcroft, killers, kasabian, turin breaks, KT Tunstall, Audio bullys, streets, Sigur Rós, cat power, cat stevens, franz ferdinand, Rufus Wainwright, Kaiser Chiefs, Arctic Monkeys, Daniel Johnston, Magic Numbers, Just Jack, Amy Winehouse, Guillemots, Mark Ronson, Shins, Brobecks, hot chip, beirut, caribou, jawbone, ting tings, CSS, crystal castles, Jeffrey Lewis, Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit, kate nash, soko, yael naim, belle & sebastian, last shadow puppets... oh... did i mention Daniel Johnston

Movies:

Most with Edward Norton... most written by David Mamet... most written/directed by the Coen brothers... and...his girl friday, its a wonderful life, 12 angry men, strangers on a train, rope, bringing up baby, to kill a mockingbird, mister roberts, mary poppins, once upon a time in the west, pink panther, being there, the party, casino royale, graduate, one flew over the cuckoos nest, shining, serpico, citizen kane, citizen smith, clockwork orange, godfather, taxi driver, apocalypse now, breakfast club, ferris bueller, stand by me, blues brothers, brother bear(lol), back to the future, star wars, terminator, blazing saddles, young frankenstein, brazil, american beauty, american history x, kill bill, reservoir dogs, pulp fiction, snatch, trainspotting, forrest gump, 12 monkeys, lost in translation, Lenny, fargo, big lebowski, raising arizona, oh brother where art thou, Amelie, magnolia, best in show, almost famous, pleasantville, matrix, donnie darko, orange county, big fish, little miss sunshine, waking life, scanner darkly, children of men... to name a few... i could go on and on... its a bit of a passion... New Additions... HOT FUZZ!!! ...The Darjeeling Limited

Television:

Billy Connolly live, Two Ronnies, Monty Python, Wood and Walters, Office, Extras, Curb your Enthusiasm, Little Britain, Peep Show, Simpsons, documentaries

Books:

Aldous Huxley, Terrence McKenna, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K Dick, Tom Sharpe, Irvine Welsh, Alexander Trocchi, Martin Amis, David Sedaris, oily castenada

Heroes:

Salvador Dali, Antoni Gaudí, James Rosenquist, Chuck Close, John Lennon, Muhammad Ali, Lenny Bruce, David Bowie, Chauncey Gardener, Superman, Aurora