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.”
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