BILLY CONNOLLY
Billy Connolly returns with six new witty and warm limited editions as the latest instalment of his acclaimed Born on a Rainy Day collection. Castle Fine Art launched Billy’s first Born on a Rainy Day collection in 2012, after he took up drawing whilst on tour in Canada. Now, he has found himself acclaimed as an 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”. The new works are: ‘A Load of Old Bollocks’, portraying a basketful of balls, ‘Headrest’ showing a man relaxing in a deckchair, ‘A Very Humble Goldfish’ – which is exactly that, ‘Helping Mummy With Twine’, which Billy says reminds him of helping his auntie wind balls of wool, and ‘Backseat Driver’, a donkey on a chair which reminds him of one the Connolly family used to own. This means that Billy has put a lot of himself into these new pieces, which have a lot of memories from his past included in them, and are sure to really resonate with his many passionate collectors.
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