Erazed Work

This is a series of paintings that I did most over the winter of 2011. I just felt like doing something a bit different. The oils were hung in Cleo's, The Helen Joyce Gallery in Kenmare, and I got some great feedback on them. Prints of some of these are now available, please see below each for link Many of them I have painted over, as I felt I had made my statement

Red Light District

'Next'

12x16 inches

Waiting to see what the next man would be like

'Contemplating going out'

12x16 inches

Thinking about returning to the pavement again

'Sleeping it off'

16x12 inches

The police, the johns, the pimp, drink, she was knackered

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'Long Night at the Docks'

16x12 inches

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'Working Late 3'

8x24 inches

Alone on the street in the big World

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(Close up below)

'Heaven'

8x20 inches

She is appearing to offer heaven, what she is really doing is something quite else

'Working Late 2'

The eyes of the world she lives in are upon her

'Docks'

Business was slow enough without the competition

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'Waiting'

If he didn't show up soon she knew she'd have to go back on the cold wet pavement to make ends meet

'Alone in the alley'

A dangerous place to wait

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'Alley Girls'

Passing time

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'Having a break'

'Which Side?'

The only interest to the girls was which side the ship would dock

'Bar Girl'

'When she was in this frame of mind not even her pimp would talk to her'

She deliberately chose the higher stool to sit on to get drunk

NFS (not for sale)

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The oils below I have painted over, so they are here for posterity sake

'Bar Girl 2'

I got the detail behind the bar better in this one, but painted over it when I needed a canvas for something else

'Saviour'

The idea for this one was the 'tart with a heart' story, she is selling herself to keep the tramp fed and because he is stuck in his ways she will keep looking after him as an excuse to keep whoring

'The Alley'

She is seeking refuge in the alley while she thinks things over

'Working Late'

The lone whore out in a dangerous murky world, having to wait somewhere the police don't find her but her customers do. So she chooses a spot near the docks