A canvas by Ptolemy created after he witnessed an accident in Berkeley Square between a taxi and a young woman. Luckily she walked away, the contents of her handbag strewn across the road. Ptolemy represents the fear, the surprise, the empathy in the searing lines of colour that cross the canvas.
An art critic writes…
Simply stunning. Unlike Gareth Southgate, with Accident in Berkeley Square Ptolemy has produced a winner. Personally this work speaks to me more than the Mona Lisa or any of those other renaissance works. Ptolemy is a modern day Michelangelo, anyone who disagrees needs to see a doctor for the head.
What a work! Ptolemy hits it out of the park again, with Feeling like a Marinara pizza, but they don’t sell it. What colors! What size! What a message of peace and love – for the pizza talk is obviously a distraction from his real meaning. Surely what is before us is actually a proto-flag? More than that, a British ensign or an American Stars and Stripes without stripes. Or stars. More than that, the purple of power infuses the rising sense of dread…that off-black line, I can’t look at it without feeling that Ptolemy is ahead of realpolitik, of even politic – he provides us with answers to questions the world is asking with bombs and bullets. I cry out to world leaders, listen to Ptolemy!
Wendell Conference-Jack, art critic and CEO of SpediaXY, the only company trying to put fine art on the moon.
Oh how the world attacks us and lays us low! Lucky I am that I am an artist and can express these terrors in artworks that sell for fortunes! This worry, that I will be hot, bothered, decide to cool my seething brow with an ice cream, only to find that it is…insipid. This is the thing of nightmares, of which Homer sang in his ballad Odysseus gets home after a longish journey and finds the fridge bare. Unlike Penelope, I have been alert, devoting hours a day to developing ice cream recipes. Soon I shall have a formula ready to sell to the highest bidder. Now, a calliope, or rather, a callipo.
Ptolemy Bognor-Regis III is the only son of Ptolemy Bognor-Regis II, the famous philanthropist, owner of Winhampton United and star of upcoming reality TV show, Billionaires in a Boat. He works in an abstract style inspired by the early works of Cedar Compton, Maui Slipper’s portraits of unseeable things and the road signs he claims to have experienced on a gap-year visit to Columbia. “My work is so deep and meaningful that it can only be expressed in abstract paintings. I have not yet found an art critic who understands my work, but I keep battling on, knowing that if there is one thing the world needs it is more abstract artworks.”
A Bank Robbery in the environs of Machynlleth
A surprise win at Tennis whilst playing your great-aunt
A bird on a giraffe’s nose (the giraffe is trying not to sneeze and dislodge his feathered friend)
Ptolemy Bognor-Regis III on his artistic practice-
“In the boundless expanse of our still much un-discovered cosmos, where the ethereal nuances of creativity converge with almost infinite representations of human experience, I am inexorably drawn to the realm of the abstract,a realm teeming with boundless potential and unfathomable depths, the realm that needs to be visited by all if we are to survive as a species. Yes, abstract art is that important. In fact it is more important.
In my artistic practice, I eschew the constraints of representationalism, opting instead to traverse the nebulous terrain of the abstract, where form gives way to essence and color becomes the conduit for political viewpoints, special achievements and emotional expression. It is within this liminal space, this threshold of consciousness, that I discover the true essence of politics, culture, life and artistic liberation,a liberation that transcends the confines of conventional perception and invites the viewer to embark upon a journey not just of self-discovery and introspection but to the very essence of humanity. My artworks are signposts for the world to read, to help them progress from now to then.
My abstract artworks unravel the enigma of existence, plumb the depths of the human psyche, the global political systems and give voice to the ineffable mysteries that lie at the heart of our shared humanity. I can say no more now, I am exhausted with speaking and must return to my studio and the abstract images that speak so much more clearly than mere words.”
At the heart of the composition of this new album cover stands the enigmatic figure of Arthur Dott, a minstrel of the modern age, his soulful visage too strong to be fully realised. Clad in trousers reminiscent of the Oasis, he walks downwards as a beacon of creative fervor, his gaze probably – though we cannot see – fixed upon the distant horizon where dreams and reality converge in a symphony of indie rock.
