I have been dancing, - and drawing The Dance - live at Southport Weekender since I first visited at it’s original location at Pontins, Southport in year 2000, through the Minehead Butlins years, to it’s current location at Butlins, Bognor Regis (via it’s satelite festival Suncebeat in Croatia). That’s 23 years of drawing/painting live on location in real time. What began as a bunch of ‘live art’ experimental drawings has been transformed by the project’s longevity into a robust visual archive evoking the spirit of the musical-dancikal event whilst also marking and celebrating it’s persistence and development.
Natasha Diggs & Co - At Southport ‘22
Rich Medina & Co - At Southport ‘22’.
Drawn/painted in artists pastels straight after Southport Weekender 2022, at Butlins, Bognor Regis, when the Sounds and Images were still fresh. Featuring DJ Andy Ward. Pastel and charcoal on blue Canson Paper 30cm x 21cm. From ‘Secrets Of Southport’, - a series of 8 new artworks exploring and celebrating the Happenings of Southport 2022, - which have not been published or exhibited until now (March 2023). A Ltd number of Pre-order, individual prints are available before this year’s event kicks off on March 17th.