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Billy Childish

Vibrant, melancholic vignettes of a self proclaimed outsider

Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper, 1 December 1959 in Chatham, Kent) is an English painter, punk rock icon and poet. At 16 he left school to become a dockyard stonemason apprentice, was expelled from St. Martins School of art for outspoken political views and lived on the dole for 15 years. For 35 years he has been prolific in creating music, writing and visual art.

Swirling patterns and forms are effortlessly produced from thick and lavish paint on canvas. Childish's artwork is almost sculptural in its attempts to create form and substance. His obsession with colour stands in contrast to the melancholic and stoic subjects he paints. Drawing on influences from French and Dutch Impressionists and Expressionist painters like Van Gogh and Edvard Munch, his honest and unpretentious approach to beauty and story telling underlies all of his work.

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Billy Childish


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Billy Childish

Man Seated Oyster Catchers, Thames Estuary 1932

24.5 x 40.5 cm

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Billy Childish

Edge of the Forest

Limited Edition Print On Paper

23 x 30 cm

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Billy Childish

Man Leaning On A Boom (Oyster Catchers, Thames Estuary 1932)

Limited Edition Print On Paper

41 x 25 cm

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Billy Childish

Under Old Juniper Tree

Reproduction archival print

23.5 x 31 cm

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Billy Childish

Serenity Of Stillness

Reproduction archival print

23 x 38 cm

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Billy Childish

Self Portrait With Spotted Hanky

Limited Edition Woodcut Print On Paper

33 x 21 cm

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Billy Childish

Self Portrait With Daughter

Reproduction archival print

41 x 24.5 cm

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Billy Childish

Scouts First Summer

Reproduction archival print

32 x 26 cm

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Billy Childish

Moose

Reproduction archival print

30.5 x 23 cm

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Billy Childish

Man Stood On The Ice Holding A Dead Duck

Reproduction archival print

38 x 25.5 cm

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Billy Childish

Man Reclining on a Willow Tree, Kroonstad 1901

Reproduction archival print

30 x 21.5 cm

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Billy Childish

Man On Icy Sea

Reproduction archival print

26 x 38 cm

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Vibrant, melancholic vignettes of a self proclaimed outsider

Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper, 1 December 1959 in Chatham, Kent) is an English painter, punk rock icon and poet. At 16 he left school to become a dockyard stonemason apprentice, was expelled from St. Martins School of art for outspoken political views and lived on the dole for 15 years. For 35 years he has been prolific in creating music, writing and visual art.

Swirling patterns and forms are effortlessly produced from thick and lavish paint on canvas. Childish's artwork is almost sculptural in its attempts to create form and substance. His obsession with colour stands in contrast to the melancholic and stoic subjects he paints. Drawing on influences from French and Dutch Impressionists and Expressionist painters like Van Gogh and Edvard Munch, his honest and unpretentious approach to beauty and story telling underlies all of his work.

"It's an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw"

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