Mike Juggins

Sweet Obsession...

  By: the mighty - Spill

"The Mother" is the name of the painting this drawing of me is looking at.

It was the first time I had worked in oils, way back in 1995 and I knew I was in love.

It became my starting point when I picked up the brush again seriously in 2004 to start the Jazz.

The collection "Visual Jazz" took on a life of its own but as you can see this painting had an influence.

Mike Juggins - Visual Jazz

"The apparently straight forward representation of the visible world is a facade for what lies behind it - intricate patterns shadows which dissolve into cubic forms then simply melt into the background.

The repeated images - a glimpse of a surreal world hiding behind Matisse vases, Picasso doves and Mikes' archways.

The figurative, the cubic and the the abstract, all jostle in his canvasses for prominence. I am fascinated by the result."

Danuta Bird - Art Critic

Top Banna

This is a copy of a large painting I made in 2002

called Top Banna.

I painted over it in 2005 as I needed a big canvas. I wanted to take the Jazz

to full abstraction.

My daughter, Rosie was not happy about this and wished I hadn't...

So I re-painted it for her 18th birthday.

I like pop art...

Celebrating dyslexia awareness week this November. DADA. Devon 08

White gloss paint and black tape...

I made most of these ideograms in 1999 as part of my Fine Art in a Social Context BA degree show.

Please do not be offended, I was only playing with image and text.

Hi world

Life has taught me many things.

None more important than the following 3 pearls:

Treat others as you would liked to be treated yourself.

Be TRUE to yourself and focus on ability.

Always find time to play.

Kind Regards Mike x

The

last of

the grate

modernists.