Heckel’s Horse Jr. paintings 17 Dec 2025

We’re staying in our hotel room tonight, which I’ll spend most of working on these Heckel’s Horse Jr. A3 size acrylic paintings. I’m writing this as I’m waiting for the light blue to dry before starting on the next colour, red. I paint in batches like this as I’ve found it’s the fastest way to get a large number of paintings done. So far in Thailand I’ve done about 50 Heckel’s Horse Jr. paintings. I’d like to have at least 300 to take back to London in either late Jan or late Feb to glue on to hand made cardboard frames, cover in Advertism and give away at THE CAMDEN MARKET FREE ART MAN. Ron Throop @ronthroop my fellow Advertismer, and I talk about our work every week or so on the Black Ivory podcast. When I’m in the UK, Emma Pugmire usually joins us. The three of us constitute BLACK IVORY. A three piece art and music group. Here’s our most recent broadcast:

Since writing the above, I’ve added the red and some of the paintings are subsequently finished. As per the photo and video below:

Hotel room video:

Woke up this morning with an idea for the FREE ART FREES ART press release I’ll talk with Ron Throop @ronthroop about on the next BLACK IVORY PODCAST. In short, FREE ART FREES ART isn’t just the future of art distribution and the end of galleries, but a global ethical necessity. The high end gallery system has so much blood on its hands, yet our pearl clutching, supposedly equality, activism and peace leaning institutions willingly back, exploit and profit from it. This is true of the artists, galleries, art media, even governments. BLACK IVORY press release to follow.