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BORN ON A RAINY DAY
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.
Backseat Driver
Double Hit Flatbed Giclée Print on 100% Cotton Aquarelle Arches - Torchon 300gsm Paper size 77 x 57cm | Framed size 85 x 65cm Edition of 295 | Framed £1,250
A Load of Old Bollocks
Double Hit Flatbed Giclée Print on 100% Cotton Aquarelle Arches - Torchon 300gsm Paper size 77 x 57cm | Framed size 85 x 65cm Edition of 295 | Framed £1,250
Headrest
Double Hit Flatbed Giclée Print on 100% Cotton Aquarelle Arches - Torchon 300gsm Paper size 57 x 77cm | Framed size 65 x 85cm Edition of 295 | Framed £1,250
“It’s my own little language and I enjoy it and happily, other people seem to enjoy it too”. – BILLY CONNOLLY
Featured artworks Backseat Driver, Very Humble Goldfish
Very Humble Goldfish
Double Hit Flatbed Giclée Print on 100% Cotton Aquarelle Arches - Torchon 300gsm Paper size 77 x 57cm | Framed size 85 x 65cm Edition of 295 | Framed £1,250
Birds on a Wire
Double Hit Flatbed Giclée Print on 100% Cotton Aquarelle Arches - Torchon 300gsm Paper size 77 x 57cm | Framed size 85 x 65cm Edition of 295 | Framed £1,250
Helping Mummy with Twine
Double Hit Flatbed Giclée Print on 100% Cotton Aquarelle Arches - Torchon 300gsm Paper size 57 x 77cm | Framed size 65 x 85cm Edition of 295 | Framed £1,250
Born On A Rainy Day Portfolio Spring 2023 (6 Editions) Double Hit Flatbed Giclée Print on 100% Cotton Aquarelle Arches - Torchon 300gsm Unframed £4,950 | Framed £6,750
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 artistic journey. Taking refuge from the grey drizzle of Montreal, Canada, he entered an art 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 art 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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