A snap on your iPhone taken during your busy day, sits in your phone's memory and not in yours. If you have truly lived a moment, and take the time to reflect on it, especially with a sketch, it sits in a special part of your brain and will live there forever. When you look at it. years later, it will take you straight back.
]]>Hello everyone. Hope you are all managing the situation as best as possible. I know I do it for a living, but many of us have been turning to our music for comfort. Sharing what we love with our families and friends. We can't plan anything so we're all either living in the now or remembering another time and place and taking comfort in that.
I'm lucky enough to have had my book to work on. So here we will have 95 of my pieces, beautifully printed and bound in a tome along with some fascinating observations from customers and celebs, all sized to slot in with your records collection. There's an interview by Dominic Mohan and a proper insight into what I do, why and how. And it's under £40 quid.
The book is currently in production with a September Launch Date in the U.K. and March the following year in the U.S.
So if you'd like to know what the likes of GQ's Dylan Jones, Al Murray, Mark Radcliffe, or Piers Morgan have on their walls...
My publishers are Black Dog Press and the book can be pre-ordered here:
https://www.blackdogonline.com/impo…/morgan-howell-at-45-rpm
Of course you could wait until launch and buy it at Waterstones.
]]>In 2018 I met all of the above, though asking PW for a selfie is a ridiculous notion for me. I'm hugely proud to now offer Wonderboy, Time of the Season and Town Called Malice in a promotion. It's a good old fashioned 3 for 2 offer. In fact while we're here you can choose any other 3 prints. Just pay for the 2 and namecheck the 3rd in the comments. The promotion is for my Limited Edition unframed poster prints only. This will be offered to 45VIP Club members first, so get in while you can. Thanks for reading and your continued interest, Morgan x
]]>This year, off the back of a couple of great collaborative shows with Chris Barton and Horace Panter in Dublin and London, I've managed to address one of the barriers to the above - cost.
For our #Cassettevsvinyl shows I produced a set of 20 postcards. Initially just to support the shows. These are now available to buy online. I have also just added a further 20 titles. There is even a 'pick and mix' option (£12 for 6) The perfect secret Santa gift. They look great framed up in groups. https://supersizeart.myshopify.com/products/copy-of-postcard-set-ssa-pc-3
As many of you know, all my prints are hand made by yours truly and there are a few slots remaining pre Christmas if you get a move on. All will be discreetly packaged to keep your secret safe. The larger pieces personally delivered if I can get there and back in a day.
I also have a number of framed pieces in stock. Notably a series of Box Framed 50 x 50 pieces produced for the gallery shows (see above) These are £350 each and not listed on the website so please contact me if any are of interest.
See Emily Play - Pink Floyd 6/75 £350
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones 4/75 £350
Ghost Town - The Specials 6/75 £350
Walk On The Wild Side - Lou Reed 8/75 £350
Baggy Trousers - Madness 1/75 £350
Town Called Malice - The Jam 12/75 £350
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen 6/75 £350
Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan 5/75 £350
Rebel Rebel - David Bowie with Black Star Stamp AP 2/7 £400
Finally I have just one remaining slot for a commissioned piece. Last year that was filled around this time with Imagine by John Lennon. These are bespoke hand painted pieces onto a canvas sleeve with a grooved vinyl disc and a hand painted label. And for the first time this year, the marks on the run off will be engraved into the vinyl. All in a bespoke Art Glass frame. UK only on these I'm afraid.
As ever for 45VIP Club Members there is a code for discounts on the site, But also 15% applies to any orders taken from the stock listed or any commissions pre Christmas. Please use Code: C-Word 15
We chatted for a couple of hours over a cuppa tea.
]]>Over the Christmas break, I woke up with a start one morning and had seemingly decided in my sleep to produce a Life On Mars piece to donate to MacMillan Cancer Support. I knew that Rick Wakeman, who played the piano on the song, was going to perform again on the Simon Mayo show on the anniversary of Bowie's passing, the 10th Jan, and I had already decided that my Black Star stamp was going to stop on that day. So I arrived at the BBC on the 9th with the piece and a hopeful letter for Mr Wakeman... anyway for those interested the unique piece is up on eBay and fingers crossed it does OK. Heartfelt thanks to everyone who has bid so far and to Messrs Wakeman and Mayo for signing it.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/282324028527
So dear 45-ers a whole compilation album of new Art is in the store and here is an offer to tempt you, well the first 50 of you anyway (I should be so lucky). A whole 20% off when you use the following code. So if you've been putting off a purchase or would like to add to your collection this might help. The new works since my last blog include: Tumbling Dice by The Stones, 20th Century Boy by T.Rex, Both sides of the first Beatles single on the glorious harlequin Parlophone sleeve, Love Me Do/P.S. I Love you, which is really a diptych, All Right Now by Free and lastly for Bowie, Life On Mars. Just paste this code in when prompted at the checkout. IA2IWBK23DMB
There’s a lot of 45s on the site now so the best way to find what you are after is to search the artist, it’s what I do anyway.
Thanks
Morgan
]]>Back to 'Tin Soldier'. We covered it (badly) in our band when we were kids. That intro is still the greatest in my mind, and the stop... before the power chords and wailing vocal... magical. So when I was thinking about what British tunes to paint and ship to L.A. for our show in October, it just had to be this. I always just loved the 'Immediate' bag with its Mod arrow and simple black and white aesthetic. My original painting, along with 'Ghost Town' will be hanging in the BBC Radio 2 Green Room for the next couple of months but both pieces and prints thereof are available as ever.
There are also seven Artist's Proofs outside the limited edition of 75 which are only available to 45VIP Club members - all in a 50x50cm Box Frame. Please email me on morgan@supersizeart.com if these are of interest. These are not available on the website. Thanks all.
Morgan
http://supersizeart.myshopify.com/products/copy-of-tin-soldier-by-the-small-faces-limited-edition-print-of-original-painting
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So I was confident when I wheeled my flight case into the legendary Studio 1 that I had something good to show them. I wasn't really prepared for their reaction, you forget when you live with the pieces all the time, but they had never seen anything like it and all got very excited. Internal calls were made and I soon had quite an audience. Had I ever painted Sinatra?, what about Blue Note etc etc. All fabulous to hear. I was then whisked away on a tour of the amazing record stack of a building. They are rightly very proud that it is now listed and protected from ever being turned into a luxury hotel which until quite recently had been threatened. So much of the World's great music was born here, it's unthinkable that it could have all been torn down.
We walked passed Sinatra's vocal booth, Nat King Cole's piano and Nelson Riddle's orchestra stand through to the control room and the beautiful Neve 88RS-72 desk. Next, on to the tape library where I was handed Capitol's Beatles masters including Yesterday and Today, Revolver and Rubber Soul. Are you all envious yet?. And then I was taken up on the roof - wow !! Just behind me top right you can make out the Hollywood sign. And yes I am posing (come on who wouldn't).
They wouldn't let me take the piece away so it now sits in the studio. And I'm happy to report that we are in discussions about working together to celebrate 60 years of the iconic building on 2016.
Since my last email I've also been busy with a number of commissioned pieces which are now available as prints on the website. Once again you can take advantage of the 15% discount code which you paste in when prompted at the checkout. BWV1ZYSATV7W
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This year marks 60 years since the release of Elvis' very first record on the Sun label, 'That's All Right'. It has been on my list of great Elvis songs to paint (it's a long list) for some time. While I was painting, it got me thinking about that date back in 1954. We are preparing to celebrate my Mum and Dad's 60th wedding anniversary later this month. My partner Jacquie and I are very lucky that we have both sets of parents still very much with us but there is a marked difference in them, as something monumental happened in the summer of 1954. My Mum and Dad were married at 19 and 21 so had finished their courting, just before Rock 'n' Roll was to change the World. At their wedding the most daring song played was 'I Remember You' by Frank Ifield. I inherited art from my Mum and Dad so there are no complaints.
Whereas Jacquie's Mum and Dad, were just a few years younger and as Rock 'n' Roll made its way to Britain over the next few years, they danced together with a new, energised generation as they courted. Many of the records that I've painted are/were theirs, with their names neatly written in Biro on the sleeves and the labels. You can argue that there were earlier Rock 'n' Roll songs, but come on…. Elvis had changed everything. Each of my Original paintings is a one off. Once created it is crossed off the list and it doesn't matter who you are, it won't be done again. So if you are in the market for something truy unique – please get in touch. Each Original piece is carefully photographed and then reproduced; as an Edition of 9 Supersize 3D prints, the same size as the original Painting, as an Edition of 9 Oversize 3D prints at roughly album size, and as an edition of 75 prints on fine art paper.
The No.1 Oversize Print of 'That's All Right' has already been snapped up by comedian and long term customer Al Murray. A man of great taste and judgement.
If you are familiar with my site you will notice that the larger prints and originals are now listed. Keep an eye out for new works which will be added as I paint them.
Thanks
Morgan 12th March 2014
]]>Here at last we have an affordable range of prints which are available framed or un framed. The editions are just 75 and more titles will be continuously added as they are painted.
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