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Luke Haines Greasy Spoon Film

2011-11-25T07:49:00.001-08:00

Luke Haines eats egg and chips.

Film by Sian Superman.

21st Century Outsider Man ONLY ONE LEFT

2011-10-21T09:34:00.000-07:00

Hello and welcome to an instalment of the Life we call Paint and the Arts we call Outsider.

We at Insider Outsider Art, the we being I, thought that maybe we had painted some book covers but - gasp - no album covers of El Haines. And albums, well, that's also what he does. Music, man. For what is music but bulging grapes on the vine of humanity ready to be chomped at a moment's notice? Or at least made into wine.

Etc.

To make amends, the Superman Productions Workshop decided to paint an almost exact replica of the SPW's photograph of Mr Haines in the Hugo Ball-ish paper suit. This graced the cover of the 21st Century Man album which was available widely and loved broadly in the dusky nights of the latter part of 2009.

We see the lonely Mr Haines staring out, music stand by his side, into the dark recess of a century in turmoil. He emits, blankly, and stands for another five minutes.

In this solace, we notice contemplation and meditative numbness that has been previously denied to us on more vigorous album covers such as this:

If you are totally sane and want to build up your collection of likeable artworks which are a great investment and look very hunky, then the Superman Production Workshops will paint just TWO of these (ie just one more) and sell them to you for the lowly price below.

Get in, before you leap out. Or similar.

NB Word has it the paypal button below is sometimes blocked with some browsers' adblock. Please consult your butler to try and unblock this to make a payment, if that at all makes sense. Or contact me direct via email or comments below.

Outsider Dad's Coffee Cream Liqueur

2011-10-19T12:03:00.000-07:00

Sometimes art is not art without a little liquid liqueur to go with the froideur of arms and legs and paint and canvas.

This is my Outsider Dad's special recipe. My dad is not a traditional artist, but he knows how to rock a party. He makes all his drinks very strong. Here is the top section of his drinks cabinet (plus books):

And that's only some of it. My dad has various potions he experiments with and one is his Coffee Cream Liqueur. As winter approaches, and all the squirrels die in tiny tins, I propose that you warm your cockles with this recipe. Unlike wine or beer, it needs no time to ferment its magic booze and can be drunk immediately. It lasts for about a decade and can be given to babies*.

*Not true.

The recipe:

1 tin of evaporated milk

1 tin of condensed milk

half a pint of whisky

half a pint of strong coffee

1 teaspoon of vanilla essence

1 teaspoon of almond essence - (these are my Dad's own additions - "maybe not necessary" he says but I would disagree)

Tiny bubbles of fun in the glass.

Try it, let me know. How does it smell? How does it taste? What colour is Tuesday? If you do share, then one day I may recount the day I drove a cat in a car through North London while he sat on the dashboard. Even though that particular story has got nothing directly to do with my Dad.

Thanking as ever, yours and the art world.

New Painting - Punk Rock Retro

2011-10-11T09:51:00.000-07:00

From the famous painting by a Mr Tretchikoff - of 34 Acacia Avenue, Surbiton - comes the outsider art version of Chinese Woman Thinks About Stuff. Consider, if you will, the original. Worth thousands. Millions. Billions. Delighting people who like '50s thingibilia, all over this globe we call "the globe".

The original.

Consider again, a print. A bit of paper that has been printed on. OK, but there you go. Throw it in the dustbin, son.

Now take a painting, a well good painting of a painting. It's original but a copy - and yet it's genuine, not knowing. It's painted in the Outsidery, Spidery style of one of the world's most Outsidery artists. And it's unique! See with yer eyes, it has the words "punk rock" painted on the right shoulder.

Detail of special bit.

This is not an ironic piece, a po-mo slow-mo, but an item of work and graft. This could make you faint with delight. Every home should have one, but every home can't have one.
The canvas measures 30cm x 40cm.

If you want to buy it there's a handy button over there....

New Rock Paintings for Sale

2011-09-06T10:02:00.000-07:00

Aloha, and welcome to the Autumn days of Insider Outsider Art, where the winds blow wild about the countryside and large snogs of rain lash flirtatiously on windows. People sit inside, Britishly, Europely, Americanly, Chinesely or rest-of-the-worldly. The weather haunts us all, rainy or not, and now our thoughts turn to the dark sanctums – dark dark and more dark – the place we call home.

Home.

It's usually got a telly in it and maybe sometimes an oven and, hopefully in a different room, a bed.

That sort of thing. And of course the home has walls which may or may not have Outsider Art on them.

To commemorate the Greats of Rock, in a paintishly sort of way, Insider Outsider Art proudly presents the Rock Series. Two pictures, one depicting the brooding gorgeousness of Mr David Bowie in his Aladdin Sane mode but – this time – eyes open.

Bowie detail

And thence to the brooding etc. Marc Bolan, cheekily depicted in animal skin jumper, waiting to woo the gurls and also get some boys excited too. He lingers, lingeringly.

Bolan detail

Each painting measures 24cm x 30 cm and is painted thudding in acrylics. Each Bolan and Bowie is limited to just five paintings each - yes, a mere and nudey five - so perhaps you would like to rush along here. Fiendishly cheap, buxomly priced. A Paypal button awaits us below:

**UPDATE - SOLD OUT - WAS "Art Still Left!"

2011-08-25T09:18:00.000-07:00

SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD.

Just wading through the endless trinkets and stuffed pythons that litter the work room only to find this little gem, sitting alone. It is infinitely masterful - and rather tasteful - and would suit a discerning front room or maybe even the inner sanctum of a shed. It is, especially at a few months old, more outsidery than ever. If you missed the Post Everything paintings this could be the one for you... go on, it is. It is you know. There is only ONE of these in the entire world. Savour the exclusivity. Marvel at the grain.

This features our fiery fiend as a disembodied head, one filled with menace and sarcasm – a gigantic two fingers [not pictured] to the world. “Bad Vibes” is also its name and such is its game.

The painting is in acrylic paint, on canvas, and measures 16" by 12". Maybe iconic.
I've decided to offer this at the NEW 2011 knockdown rate of £80 and that includes UK postage n packing. Anywhere else in the world, £90.
[PAYPAL BUTTON REMOVED BY AN OFFICIAL]

PAINTINGS SOLD OUT

2011-08-13T01:52:00.001-07:00

All paintings sold.
Thank you.

2011-08-10T09:21:00.000-07:00

This is a short film about going to the Post Office to post some Outsider artworks.

Why not watch it.

Post Everything Paintings

2011-08-09T10:28:00.000-07:00

A mysterious man peers through the bubble wrap of an island-like existence.

An Outsider Artist wipes a glossy brow.

Outside, some things have been on fire.

What this means is that seven paintings in the Post Everything series of ten have been completed and are due to be sent out tomorrow. Would have done it today but the Post Office was closing early for

Obvious Reasons.

Hold on - seize that palette once more young buck! - two more to be painted by a trembling hand and no. 10/10 is yet to be purchased.

By whom? And why? And what. If you would like to be that What, that number ten, that bastion of all that is last-ness and you are safe and warm, you can buy it now. Or in a minute.

Post Everything Painting - ONLY ONE LEFT

2011-07-21T03:29:00.000-07:00

News update - only ONE painting is left in this series of ten of Luke Haines' Post Everything book jacket. Get in quick, sirs or madam.

Post Everything published book jacket

You may be familiar with the Art Event of Summer 2009 - which wasn't the Royal Academy Summer exhibition oh no - but where the world of British Outsider Art was turned on its head with the sale of Bad Vibes multiple paintings. Many were bought, all were loved. Some were even displayed on walls, in homes, and probably provided excellent subject matter when the conversational ball was close to dropping like yer proverbial rock.

And so now, Summer of 2011, and the grand mass of Outsider Art and Haines and Superman fans have finished the new Haines memoir Post Everything and are twiddling their collective thumbs, wondering just how to fill in those awkward pauses in social situations without a new painting to incite discussion, ignite passion and formulate New Ways for Living.

Original painting commissioned for publishers William Heinemann

And so I am selling ten - and no more - multiples of the above image, each hand-painted lovingly onto pure, fresh canvas, based on the original painting commissioned by publishers William Heinemann. As you will note, it varies slightly from the published jacket in composition. The works will measure 30 x 40 cms and will be painted in acrylics. You may have missed out on the original Bad Vibes paintings, you may have seen your conversational ball with unwanted visitors plummet at regular intervals.

(example of the Bad Vibes painting)

You may even have felt morose and dead inside because you did not have a painting of your own. You may even have a Bad Vibes painting and want a loving little canvassy companion for it. Now, esteemed person, here is your chance.

Please choose correct posting option. One painting per person.

Thank you very much.

Post Everything Book Jacket

2011-07-20T04:53:00.000-07:00

This is the jacket to the Post Everything book, the second memoir by Luke Haines. Mr Sian Superman was asked to paint the cover of the book and thus it was so. It's a very good book. Why not buy it? Click here if you think it's your cup of tea. You might have read the first book, Bad Vibes, and liked that. You might want to read this one first, as you are the type who has no truck with sequential narratives. Maybe you just like the cover and are indeed 'judging a book by its cover'. And why not? Thanks.

Bad Vibes Painting - update - NOW SOLD

2011-06-23T12:16:00.000-07:00

THIS PAINTING HAS NOW SOLD.

THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST.

If you remember, and maybe you bloody well don't, that it was two lovely years ago when forty Bad Vibes paintings were sold by me, Sian Superman.... Multiples of my husband's - L. Haines' - book jacket. The paintings, which were 30x40cms and painted in acrylics, went far, they went near. They were posted and they arrived. They were hung on a wall, or hidden in a cupboard, or burnt in a satanic pyre by naked people with bananas on their heads. One cheeky type even tried to sell his "extra" painting on eBay and was - alas - not successful. Well, not when I looked anyway. Not the TWICE he put it on there.

And thus it is - Superman Towers has found an extra! A Bad Bad Vibes, one which was lurking near a pile of empty polystyrene packing, which once housed some jointed rabbit.

It is here, smiling, un-lurking, glistening even. But it wants a new home. It is going to growl at you, oh yes, if you don't buy it. It might even eat a plate of spaghetti and invite some mice round to share some garlic bread.

Art.

Outsider Art.

This one is number twelve and if you're dead fast you can buy it for £110 inc postage ANYWHERE.

That means, acquaintances, that if you live on the actual moon, Superman will try and get it there.

Try, though. Not expecting that to happen etc.

Let's go. Let's Art.

Art Gallery - "Dog" Artwork on Show

2011-06-21T02:40:00.000-07:00

NEWS FLASH - Pop Up Art Gallery

2011-05-27T04:58:00.000-07:00

From tonight, ie 27th May 2011, a pop up art gallery is showing Sian Superman's Outsider Art, including Georgia May Jagger (above), Britney and John and Edward.

This is a rare opportunity to see these 'mazin' things in actual real life

and not on the internet, oh no not at all.

It's at 19 Swains Lane, London N6 6QX. Open weekends, mainly.

I don't think the place has a name yet, it's so new and unformed and potentially potential.

But if it does, I will find it out. Probably.

Tonight there is booze and cake at least, and lots of work by other artists too including quite a good raven scultpure.

A Drink's Too Wet Without One

2011-05-20T05:46:00.000-07:00

In response to the really good Eddie Argos 'Ignorance is Bliss' paintings of Marlboro packets, I painted this. I was tempted just to copy Eddie's, and become a painting tribute act called Addie Ergos, but he might sue me.
I once smoked Craven As for a college play, in the days you could smoke anywhere.
It was great.

Direct Value

2011-05-10T10:36:00.000-07:00

I kept the Local Pound Shop flyer for a few years.

Many years.

Too many years.

Because I didn't want to throw it away. Then I wondered how it would look as a painting, especially if some young girls bling-ed up from French Vogue were painted quite quickly (and not very well) at the bottom of the painting.

And they looked like they might go to the Pound Shop in Fortess Road.

Or they might go for about a pound if they got in with the wrong crowd.

Direct Value.

Direct.

Finally Got the Plasticine Model to do Karate

2011-04-06T03:40:00.001-07:00

The Plasticine Luke Haines does karate to celebrate playing at the QEH, Southbank, July 13 2011.

And why not.

Kate Moss - Acrylics on Saatchi Sensation Catalogue 1999

2011-04-05T06:01:00.000-07:00

Beverly Callard Multi-Tych

2011-03-21T10:33:00.000-07:00

Today, let's hark to the early renaissance and the two dimensional portraits artists made of Christian deities. From Giotto and his beatific St Stephen [above], to other ones and their triptychs of the Virgin Mary etc.

Then, to hop nimbly over to digital portraits taken from ITV's This Morning.

Beverly Callard talks to Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby about her brain tumour.

Bev goes into quite horrific detail about her brain on the programme, but here rendered in photographic stills she seems close to God.

A bit.

Estate Agent Art

2011-03-08T06:58:00.000-08:00

Art that used to hang in an estate agents...

Art that also used to hang in an estate agents....

Sometimes, that's just what art's about.

Latest Artwork - Ikea Bistro

2011-03-01T01:32:00.001-08:00

It's a put-anywhere, do-anything, constant Outsider Art reminder of the furniture store's special food bit when you get to the exit and the car park.

Feel free, feel breezy, feel Bistro.

Rendered in the exact colours of the Ikea Food bit, it is joy and laughter, chips 'n' hot dogs, melamine and glue.

Look out for other versions in different colours, to follow.

Here it is without the daffodils:

If you would like one let me know. They measure 24x30cms. They are painted in acrylics. They are probably quite cheap.

Luke Haines Portrait - Around the World #2

2011-02-08T08:08:00.000-08:00

Haines' portrait plus superman art in Los Angeles.

Luke Haines Portrait - Around the World

2011-02-04T11:24:00.000-08:00

This is one of the Outsider Art Luke Haines portraits of - yes - 2009.

It reached all the way to Portland, Oregon and this is it, on the mantelpiece.

At Insider Outsider Art, we feel that no portrait is complete without a nearby wild boar's head, so if you did buy a Haines "Bad Vibes', you will need to get down to the local taxidermist pronto. And red wine, you need that too.

(Thanks to Miss Velvet via Twitterpops.)

Outsider Music 51 - An Appraisal with Pictures

2011-01-29T11:25:00.000-08:00

And so... Mr Haines plays the guitar and sings to create Outsider Music Vol 51, live at the London Hoxton Pony venue, 19 January 2011. Sian Superman paints along, acrylics drippin' and canvas splinterin' in the blistering heat. 40 minutes later an historic gig is born. All those (mainly) unheard songs etc.

And an historic portrait of the bard himself is born. By the wife. All those unseen colours and thematic groupings.

Apparently, I got in the way of a woman in the audience who could not see the Haines 'cos of the picture, and thus decided to get a pre-prepared bagel out of her bag and eat it in defiance. Many apologies, woman who decided to eat a bagel.

Outsider Bagel no 1.

A nice man called Simon, I think [that he was called Simon, and that he was nice], won the picture in the raffle at the end [below]. He is on the right.

I spoke to him afterwards, ill-advisedly, telling him the paint might still be wet and I think he thought I was being nosey.

[Many thanks to GD Preston for the photographs.]

'Fuck Off (Lovely People Who Really Care)'

2011-01-28T06:07:00.000-08:00

Yes, even with a migraine I could knock off this limited edition juvenile artwork. Have a bon weekend.

OUTSIDER MUSIC LIVE - Art Update

2011-01-17T08:09:00.000-08:00

NEWS JUST IN
To accompany Mr Luke Haines on his one and only Outsider Music concert at the Hoxton Pony, January 19 2011, Siân Superman (that is me, the wife) will be painting LIVE on stage.
30 golden minutes of Outsider Music - 30 treacherous, vodka-sodden, paint-splattered, 100% figurative minutes to paint a complete canvas artwork of Mr Haines' a-singin' and a-strummin'.
In case you have forgotten, Superman's outsider portraits of Haines were made for sale in a limited edition of copies of 40 in May 2009.

Click here to go to the Ticketweb site, if you need to buy more tickets, or indeed less.
The painting will be raffled off/thrown into the baying crowd at the end of the evening.
DISCLAIMER: If the easel I got off of Freecycle falls apart and spears anyone in the head legal complaints will not be upheld.

Happy New Year of Hangovers

2011-01-07T10:08:00.000-08:00

Although someone has already called him 'adorable' this horrendous creature will actually puncture your insides with gloom as a hangover guy. His sprightly tance (sic) will hook into your eyes and could bring his friend, the horse migraine, with him.

Not that I am wishing hangovers on anyone this year it's just they are inevitable and actually quite good when you get into them. So, maybe I am wishing hangovers on everyone I know and that's just that - it's ok, keep quiet, enjoy it, it won't last long.

Merry Christmas

2010-12-22T09:33:00.001-08:00

Merry Christmas 2010 from Sian Superman.

Larkin Madonna News Story Mash Up

2010-12-02T10:56:00.001-08:00

(Click on it to make it bigger.)

Wedding Announcement/Howard Donald Outsider Art

2010-11-17T04:35:00.001-08:00

It's not often a Royal Wedding is announced, even rarer that a Super Injunction is lifted from a member of senior boy band Take That. But yesterday, that happened: Kate 'n' William; Howard Donald 'n' the Law. Here is thoughtful Howard, thinking about his bad deeds, as HRHRHRH William and Kate Moss frolick sensually in the background. Congratulations to all.

OM - Promo Film

2010-08-20T07:39:00.001-07:00

A stop-motion short film to promote Luke Haines' Outsider Music. Watch the plasticine figure fly.

Sex Dog etc.

2010-07-17T10:05:00.000-07:00

Trawling through the detritus - well, a spare drive - I found some images of very old artwork.

Obviously deranged, but temptingly so and delectably stoopid. A rock n roll sex dog and a really odd nudey lady. What larks indeed in the troubled mind of a youngish person. And that's just the lady in the picture, eh. ONE DAY THIS STUFF WILL BE KNOWN. Ish.

A Bookmark, Blogged

2010-07-17T10:00:00.000-07:00

Click here for 'Knit for Victory' blog about a bookmark I made a very long time ago....

"love"

2010-06-27T08:33:00.001-07:00

Would You Like A Job?

2010-05-18T14:02:00.000-07:00

The latest in the moveable world of pen 'n' ink to canvas, ie the smooth-swiftly version of 'would you like a job?' picture which was a special commission for this outsider artist. Thanks to Glenn! It's in the post.

cheryl cole II

2010-05-13T10:30:00.000-07:00

This is the second in maybe the pointless cheryl cole triptych. See her gaze out in designer clothes, into the eyes of the viewer, who may or may not be interested.

First in the Cheryl Cole Triptych

2010-04-29T05:09:00.000-07:00

In Dylan Thomas' words Cheryl Cole raged against the dying of the light last year - the death of a marriage - even though it was a crap marriage and did "die" anyway. Cheryl is constantly striving, raging, yearning... releasing singles which end up as 'hits'. Downloads even. Selling calendars too. Cheryl Cole truly rages in a very modern way. She is also very thin.

But now she looks forlornly near an urban landscape, the one she left to move into that country seat with love rat Ashley. Where does she now go? Back to the urban sprawl, maybe LA... maybe Edinburgh.

Will Cheryl ever go back to the dark Satanic-ish mills of Newcastle. Even if that little fella from X Factor wot won it in 2009 still lives there. No, Cheryl has left her home and now must be left to wander - and rage - until she finds somewhere else.

migraines

2010-04-17T12:05:00.000-07:00

i have drawn my hangover, now these are two migraine headaches.
the first is quite horrible and spikey, but invariably enthusiastic.

the second is evil but thankfully short:

i'll let you know if i develop a brain tumour.

Underneath Art

2010-04-14T11:51:00.000-07:00

Art found underneath black card in a secondhand frame.
Look at the wonderful boats, the sense of longing, the vast island in the background which speaks of yearning and destruction.
Time to put it back in its frame and herald its mastery.
I am now on the look out for more 'underneath art'... watch this space.

Found Art in Street

2010-03-11T02:03:00.000-08:00

Framed Rothko print (unless it was a well-disguised original) this morning, in quite a decent frame, NW5. Almost quite unbelievable that the person should have thought this please-all piece far too much for their home. Or perhaps they thought that the colours suited the outside on a shitty March morning much better. Which actually makes it - Outside Art. Needless to say, within moment (ie when I went back for it) it had gone - to become Inside Art once more, I presume.
Two days ago I found this:

...on a wall in NW3. It still had canvas board, turps and old tubes of paint and charcoal in it, from 1809. Or something. I don't think they put the word 'Amateur' on art sets anymore. Puts the paying public off.

New Painting of a Hangover

2010-02-27T13:07:00.000-08:00

The first hangover painting, rather than sketch, is here - like a beacon of portent on a Saturday night, speaking -like a ghoulish monster of dreary headpinchyness - of the ills of the Night After. That is, Sunday - and the Sunday hangover (which will actually go if you keep drinking all day until, preferably, Tuesday). But anyway, it is Saturday at the moment here in London town and here it is, this picture. If you would like to own this totally original piece of art, wot like no one has ever done before, it will cost you £80 plus very moderate p&p. [Acrylic on canvas, 30cms x 40cms.] You can contact me here for all enquiries. I'm off down the pub.

Another drawing of a hangover

2010-02-26T07:57:00.001-08:00

Outsider Art in Bin

2010-02-16T03:37:00.000-08:00

So, Michael Landy and your Damien Hirsts in your so-called art bin. This is real art, in a real bin, in London NW3 - discovered moments ago. It's a piece of Matisse-inspired art, maybe taking in a bit of Chris Ofilli on the way - and surely a comment on the role of women, and apples. Or are they pomegranates? The piece is unsigned and still in the bin on top of a carton of strawberry Yazoo milk, in case you want to get it, near Parliament Hill Fields tennis courts.

Meals

2010-02-05T03:44:00.001-08:00

Drawing a Hangover

2010-01-28T10:28:00.000-08:00

Sometimes I draw my hangover. This was a particularly nasty one in Wales, last year:
This was a bad one in Starbucks where I was quite confused:
This one is actually a headache:
This one is the hangover I would have had, if I'd been bothered to drink the night before:

Prada Girls

2010-01-15T11:43:00.000-08:00

Seeing pictures of thin children with back-combed hair and tomato-coloured lipstick for the new Prada S/S 10 collection, inspired me to draw them. They look like kids on holiday - gawky, inexperienced, prone to falling over very suddenly, sulky if they don't get an ice cream in the next ten minutes. Contrary-wise, I like it. A lot. They is rockin' a good look. (Even though in all reality, older women who sit in Highgate cafes talking about their loft extensions buy Prada. I think.) So I'd better draw those types too, then. Soon.

Georgia May Jagger

2009-11-10T13:05:00.000-08:00

Photo (not scan) of Georgia May Jagger from a Vogue photoshoot. Made with watercolour and Indian Ink. I like quick photos of pictures, which are not quite representational, to scale and therefore not professional. The contrast is low; colours dimmed. It could be scanned, but at the moment I'm not going to do that.

JOHN AND EDWARD REMAIN KINGS OF OUTSIDER ROCK

2009-10-10T13:35:00.001-07:00

I just love John and Edward from X Factor, I can't help myself. I think it's the quiffs. Or the fact they are obviously outsiders in the school playground... in the library... in everything. They are also twins.

The Best Art I've Seen for.. a While

2009-10-07T13:43:00.000-07:00

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's new website has revealed some wonderful outsider art. Lou Reed, Bono, Yves Saint Laurent [who looks like Max Wall], the Obamas [pictured] and many more are cleverly disguised by a talented Outsider artist who claims to be someone other than Carla, but who might just be Nicholas' missus filling in the down-time between visiting boring embassies. This is exceptional stuff and needs to be given a, erm, smaller audience. Oh.

Madonna for Louis Vuitton

2009-08-29T08:00:00.001-07:00

After seeing the commercial advertisements for Ladies Outfitter Mr Louis Vuitton, I was inspired to paint a watercolour of Madonna... as she might look had she come from Bognor Regis and had dressed up in the garb just because it was a Thursday night.

Latest Nixey - NOW SOLD!

2009-07-21T11:31:00.001-07:00

More static elegance and timeless mystery in the form of Sarah Nixey painting two. Standing tall, Sarah gazes out fondly, and yet with glacial remove. The second portrait carries more allure, and more enigmatic knowingness than ever before. The art is painted in acrylics (24cms x 30 cms) and is £80 inc. UK P&P if you're interested. Email here for Paypal details and even worldwide shipping prices. [Numbered 2 out of 2.]

Eddie Argos Painting Unveiled

2009-07-12T14:26:00.001-07:00

Aha! Fresh from the brush, is the latest in the Insider Outsider pantheon (or panther) - Mr Eddie Argos from Art Brut and a lion. Painted in the style of something, this picture captures the essence of man and beast. The man, alone - contemplates the big cat - also alone. But the man has one cry - 'eddie argos'. For it is he.
If you are interested in owning this work please contact me here... it is £100 inc. UK P&P, by Paypal if possible. It is 30cms x 40cms and painted in acrylics.
As with the "Bad Vibes' paintings, I am painting 'readymades' [copies] of up to 40 - each is original (not a print etc.)

"Its making me wish I owned a Lion": Mr Argos.

Exciting Offer

2009-07-10T10:26:00.000-07:00

Exciting ebay offer, re: Mr Luke Haines

Offer closed...

2009-07-04T01:42:00.000-07:00

On all Luke Haines artwork. Thanks for your support. Watch this space.

Last Orders

2009-06-29T10:21:00.000-07:00

Thanks for all the orders of the MR LUKE HAINES Bad Vibes pictures.
As these works are 'limited edition" you will need to place your Last Orders 11.10pm UK time, Friday 3rd July. Please email me if you would like one. (NB It will not actually say "last chance!" on it unless required.) There will be no more in this series after this point.
Watch our for further artworks - including Eddie Argos and a lion - and many more to be announced.

Important News

2009-06-22T10:39:00.000-07:00

I am so proud to announce that the newest rapscallion in the Pantheon of Insidery, Spidery, Outsidery Art will be Eddie Argos from 'mazin' punkies Art Brut. Eddie has personally - and advancingly - approved to have his portrait painted standing next to the King of Roarers, a lion. This painting has not actually been started yet but it will be soon. Come back to find out more.

The Countryside Scares Me

2009-06-21T11:45:00.000-07:00

Just thought I'd mention it.

This is Outsider Nixey

2009-06-08T09:32:00.000-07:00

The restless Sarah Nixey - the golden-tonsilled chanteuse from Black Box Recorder, gazes out and meets the viewer's eyes. Square on. Undeterred and powerful... yet still wanting.
Inspired by Chaim Soutine, this acrylic painting (24cms x 30 cms) captures the Outsider Nixey from the album cover "The Facts of Life". BBR logo in corner. So far, 1 of 1. May stretch to 2. £80, Paypal is the option. Email here for details.
As approved by Miss Nixey herself.

We Told You The Truth About Rock n Roll

2009-06-06T10:42:00.000-07:00

Here is a small selection, just to tantalise, of four different visions of the enigma that is so often our bard Luke Haines. Picture 1 sees him smart and noble. The next shouts a contrary tale. Another sees a cheeky lean towards the viewer and the sky darken accordingly while the next shows our hero relaxing - buttonhole in place - enjoying the view. Every painting is more placid and yet momentous as our story unfolds.
As one happy customer across the pond puts it: "the eyes are little pools of contempt, but his humanity is also there, in the pant leg".
This art is selling like proverbial Outsider hot cakes - warm too - and if you don't snap yours up while the paint is still drippy on the canvas, then it may be too late. These works will not be around forever.
£100 each inc. uK p&p. Paypal preferred. Email here for more glancey information.

Normal Service Resumed

2009-05-24T23:32:00.000-07:00

"John Superman" had a few good days but Sian is back. However, watch out for JS paintings on the site in the future.

Change of name

2009-05-23T07:48:00.001-07:00

I was looking at some photographs of CBGBs today, on the web, as there is some sort of Proud Galleries exhibition coming up in London. Half of these people were called 'Johnny' [Thunders, Blitz, Ramone etc] and then there's Patti Smith's 'the boy looked at Johnny'. Well, I thought. New York in the 70s. Interesting.
The anglicised version, of course, is John. And as I have a head cold and am feeling rather peculiar I came round to thinking, hm, John Superman may just be a good name for an artist. So today I am going to refer to myself as John. John Superman, Outsider Artist.

New Artwork

2009-05-03T11:32:00.001-07:00

Hello, my name is Siân Superman and I am an outsider artist. Outsider art means pictures with no formal technique, no acceptable lineage, no shop-bought aesthetic. The wonderful Stella Vine, for instance, is an Outsider artist. Banksy is not. The paintings “by” Tony Hancock in the best film of all time The Rebel are Outsider Art. The stuff of Damien Hirst is not. It is important to be an Outsider. It stops you being an asshole. (Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.)

And thus onto the subject of today.
You may have heard the work of a gentleman called Luke Haines, the notorious songwriter, with bands such as The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder, Baader Meinhof and of course, by his own nom de non-plume, Luke Haines. He is known throughout the world as a despot, a soothsayer, a perspicacious visionary. (By the way, I am married to this man.)

And so, as if pushed into a corner by a very large baboon, I have new paintings for sale, inspired by the cover of 'Bad Vibes', Haines’ memoir. The “dark destroyer” is portrayed here in all his brooding glory, with the heavy clouds of doom in the background and a martini in his hand. He glowers with knowing nihilism as the shutter clicks, and paintbrush flicks and a new artwork is borne. Therefore, here is picture 1:

Picture 2 features our fiery fiend as a disembodied head, one filled with menace and sarcasm – a gigantic two fingers [not pictured] to the world. “Bad Vibes” is also its name and such is its game. Here it is:

The paintings are in acrylic paint, on canvas, and measure 16" by 12".

Copies will be limited up to 40. Each one will be slightly different, not intentionally, but rather sensationally. (Outsiders have no truck with things being exactly the same.)

The paintings are £100 each and that includes UK postage & packing. Anywhere else in the world, please email for a postage price. Paypal works best. Click here to email.