These paintings are available to buy now, direct from the artist. Please email b_tankard@hotmail.com if you are interested in any of them, and I will send you an invoice with my bank details. All prices include delivery within Australia, you also have the option of collecting the painting in person if you live near Sydney or the Blue Mountains. The paintings are on deep-edged stretched canvases, with painted sides, so they are ready to hang without framing. If you would like a different, commissioned painting, please click here - Commissions
'Twelve Cents', acrylic on canvas, 102cm x 62cm 2017, ready to hang, $775
SOLD Black Classic 19, acrylic on canvas, 2017 101cm x 76cm, ready to hang.
This series are based on the format of the Penguin 'Black Classics' paperback books.
'The Art of the Deal', acrylic on canvas, 51cm x 152cm, 2017, ready to hang, $1500
Unpopular Penguins series - I started painting these in October 2015, and had immediate success with them. Edmund Capon, former director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, said of the first painting in this series, " an evocative imagining of the familiar Penguin Paperback...it was a painting we all liked very much for its rich texture, its sense of memory and its sort of nostalgic humour"
When I started the series, I was thinking of Jasper Johns' 'Flag' series, and how he took a known and popular subject and transformed it into art, distorting clean lines with thick and layered paint. These paintings, of course, are based on the 'Popular Penguins' paperback books. The earliest were particularly minimal, with lines and dashes instead of text and very chaotic brushwork. I now alternate between cleaner designs and more expressive ones.
They have an impasto surface, built up in many layers of paint, with splashes, drips, and many signs of overpainting. You can also contact me to commission a particular colour, title or size.
When I started the series, I was thinking of Jasper Johns' 'Flag' series, and how he took a known and popular subject and transformed it into art, distorting clean lines with thick and layered paint. These paintings, of course, are based on the 'Popular Penguins' paperback books. The earliest were particularly minimal, with lines and dashes instead of text and very chaotic brushwork. I now alternate between cleaner designs and more expressive ones.
They have an impasto surface, built up in many layers of paint, with splashes, drips, and many signs of overpainting. You can also contact me to commission a particular colour, title or size.
'Unpopular Penguin 184', acrylic on canvas, 122cm x 92cm, 2007. Ready to hang, $1200
'Unpopular Penguin 185', acrylic on canvas, 91cm x 61cm, 2017. Ready to hang, $625
'Unpopular Penguin 110', acrylic on canvas, 76cm x 51cm, 2017, ready to hang, $500
