After a successful tour across the UK presenting his forthcoming collection, we’re delighted to present the latest chapter in Billy Connolly’s Born On A Rainy Day collection. Featuring six vibrant silkscreens alongside two stainless steel sculptures, one of which is of monumental size, this collection is a must-have for any Billy fan.
BORN ON A RAINY DAY
BILLY CONNOLLY
The artist celebrates ten years with Castle Fine Art – and his upcoming 80th birthday – with six new eye-popping limited-edition silkscreens and sculptures as the latest instalment of his acclaimed Born on a Rainy Day collection. the new pieces pop with dynamic colours, making them just as colourful as the personality who created them. There is also a new table-top sculpture of his drawing ‘Hang Gilder’, and in a first for Billy, his ode to the Clydeside welder, ‘And on Monday, God Made The World’ will be available in a monumental 1.7 metre-high sculpture Castle Fine Art launched Billy’s first collection, Born on a Rainy Day , in 2012, after he took up drawing whilst on tour in Canada, and has found himself an acclaimed artist as well as a comedian, author, musician and actor, creating works at
his studio in the Florida Keys. “The things I choose to draw, I don't choose to do them before I sit down and do them. they come alive on the paper. It's always been like that, and it's very comfortable. “It's a strange position to find myself in, as for 50 years I've been confident in my comedy, then suddenly, along comes this thing and I'm not confident in it because it's somebody else's field. But I'm getting used to people liking it”. ‘Hang Glider’, Billy’s drawing of a winged, seated figure is reinvented as a silkscreen with a pop of lilac, as well as in the form of a tabletop stainless-steel sculpture which Billy describes as “almost Buddha-like – and it’s floaty, so that’s why I called it ‘Hang Glider’. It’s a thoughtful, meditative pose.”
Blue Angel
Two Colour Silkscreen on Deckle Edged Somerset Satin 410gsm Paper Paper size 76 x 102cm | Framed size 86 x 112cm Edition of 195 | Framed £2,950
Pink Tie & Hanky
Two Colour Silkscreen on Deckle Edged Somerset Satin 410gsm Paper Paper size 102 x 76cm | Framed size 112 x 86cm Edition of 195 | Framed £2,950
And On Monday, God Made The World Two Colour Silkscreen on Deckle Edged Somerset Satin 410gsm Paper Paper size 102 x 76cm | Framed size 112 x 86cm Edition of 195 | Framed £2,950
On display at Caslte Fine Art Manchester
“Using colour really bought the pieces to life and they took my breath away.” – BILLY CONNOLLY
Featured artwork Walkies
Walkies
Two Colour Silkscreen on Deckle Edged Somerset Satin 410gsm Paper Paper size 102 x 76cm | Framed size 112 x 86cm Edition of 195 | Framed £2,950
Wading Bird
Two Colour Silkscreen on Deckle Edged Somerset Satin 410gsm Paper Paper size 76 x 102cm | Framed size 86 x 112cm Edition of 195 | Framed £2,950
Hang Glider
Two Colour Silkscreen on Deckle Edged Somerset Satin 410gsm Paper Paper size 102 x 76cm | Framed size 112 x 86cm Edition of 195 | Framed £2,950
Born on a Rainy Day - A Collection of Six Silkscreen Editions
Two Colour Silkscreen on Deckle Edged Somerset Satin 410gsm Paper Unframed £13,500 | Framed £15,950
“Some of the drawings just tell you that they would be good as sculptures. They jump from the paper into the three-dimensional.” – BILLY CONNOLLY
Hang Glider
Polished Stainless Steel with Black Granite Base Height 36cm x Width 46cm x Depth 23cm | Edition of 195 £7,500
On display at Caslte Fine Art Mailbox, Birmingham
On display at Caslte Fine Art Mailbox, Birmingham
“I just want to keep honing the thing that I’ve got and make it better and better – that’s all. That’s the only ambition I feel.” – BILLY CONNOLLY
And On Monday, God Made The World Polished Stainless Steel with Black Granite Base Height 170cm x Width 180cm x Depth 60cm | Edition of 19 £150,000
Biography
Sir Billy Connolly [B.1942, Glasgow]
Sir William “Billy” Connolly, CBE is an award-winning Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname The Big Yin (The Big One). His first trade, in the early 1960s, was as a welder in the Glasgow shipyards, but he gave it up towards the end of the decade to pursue a career as a folk singer. His career as a comedian and actor took off in the 1970s and he went on to appear in over 50 films, including The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies (2014), Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), The Last Samurai (2003), Mrs. Brown (1997) and Indecent Proposal (1993). It was on a rainy day in 2007 that Billy first embarked on his ar tistic journey. Taking refuge from the grey drizzle of Montreal, Canada, he entered an ar t shop with a twinkling curiosity and left with an armful of supplies and the urge to create. Over the next five years, his felt-tip drawings evolved into his debut fine ar t collection, Born On A Rainy Day, which has enjoyed eight successful releases since its launch in 2012.
2001 Awarded an honorary doctorate from University of Glasgow 2002 Presented with a Special Award by British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) 2003 Made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2006 Awarded an honorary doctorate from Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama 2010 Awarded an honorary doctorate from Nottingham Trent University 2010 Made a Freeman of Glasgow with the award of the Freedom of the City of Glasgow
2012 Presented with the Outstanding Contribution Award by BAFTA Scotland 2016 Presented with National Television Awards (NTA) Special Recognition Award 2017 Received a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2021 Presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Edinburgh TV Festival 2022 Presented with the BAFTA Fellowship. Awarded annually, the Fellowship is the highest accolade BAFTA can bestow on any one figure, recognising an exceptional contribution to film, television or games.
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