Rob Kirbyson

Fine artist in acrylics and oils with a keen interest in the environment.

Duck Redux

A reworking of 'Duck'. 60 x 60 cm. Group D

Portrait of Evel Knievel (Robert Craig Knievel) 1938 – 2007. Evel was born in Butte, Montana. After being sacked from the Anaconda Mining Company for pulling a wheelie in an earth mover, Evel settled on a career as a part time burglar and selling insurance. Evel did well selling insurance and discovered that mental patients were good customers. Selling insurance didn’t really do it for Evel though and so he embarked upon a career as a motorcycle daredevil. During his many televised jumps, Evel has broken 40 bones. By his own admission, Evel only put his life on the line for the money and the women. In this portrait Evel is around 60. Evel became a Born Again Christian in 2004 and died 30.11.07 while myself and Scottish portrait artist John Boyle were painting him as part of our 'America's Finest' project.... It came as a shock as you form a kind of relationship with someone as you paint their face. Rest in peace Evel. 60 x 60 cm deep canvas. Group D

Ideology Unknown

Sometimes things look inexplicable and there is no apparent meaning to their existence. There again J R 'Bob' Dobbs once said, 'The more stupid something looks, the more important it probably is.' Just because we don't understand something, doesn't mean it has no purpose or is not born out of some process. Sometimes things exist because they are banal or stupid... Reactionary. 40 x 50 cm. Group B.

Mahmoud

Former Mayor of Tehran and now the president of Iran. 60 x 60cm. Group D

Zoinks!

Scooby Doo (1969). 60 x 60 cm. Group D

Gutspan

Full of orangey goodness. 30 x 15 cm. Group A

Four Dollar Option

60 x 60 cm. A painting which encapsulates all my thoughts about spending a month in Florida in August 2004. A surreal place. Group D

Lifeblood

A semi abstract in a photographic context. Water/Rain is the most valuable substance on the planet. Knife and brush. Green abstracts are relatively uncommon so I undertook quite a few. It's either a matter of painting within 'your zone' or trying to evoke something in particular. All my green abstracts or semi abstracts are about jungle and rainforest and their indigenous life and cultures. So don't buy bottled water, it falls from the sky. 40 x 50 cm. Deep box canvas. Group B

Soul Returned

A spiritual anatomical painting. Lots of earthy browns and tonality. 40 x 50. Group D.

Ronald Reagan

Portrait of Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004). Reagan was born in Illinois and found fame as a Hollywood film star, where he also became President of the Screen Actors Guild. Entering politics he became the Governor of California in 1967 until 1975 and in 1981 started two terms as the 40th President of the United States of America. This is one in a series called 'America's Finest' with Scottish portrait artist John Boyle where an agreed subject is painted simultaneously. Group D

Air Rabbit ©

Two women came up to me in a dream and asked me to paint Air Rabbit. 60 x 60 cm. Group D

Ergotism

Surreal oil painting based on Ergotism. A collaboration between Andrea Farmer and myself. 30 x 30 cm deep box canvas. Group B.

William S Burroughs

Portrait of William Seward Burroughs (1914 - 1997). Burroughs was born in St Louis, Missouri. For much of his youth he led a priveleged existence, travelling around spending an allowance afforded him by well to do parents after graduating from Harvard. Burroughs became caught up in drug subculture and spent many years on the run, notably in North Africa. Tragically burroughs only became a writer after accidentally shooting his wife dead (Joan Vollmer). Burroughs went on to write some of the most highly acclaimed and controvertial modern literature of his generation, creating works such as, The Naked Lunch, Soft Machine, Nova Express, The Wild Boys, The Place Of Dead Roads and Cities Of The Red Night among others. 60 x 60 cm deep canvas. Group D

Florida Seascape

60 x 60 cm. George on holiday at Daytona Beach, putting a large one on the expenses plastic. Group D

Man in a Tank

Man in a Tank. 60 x 60cm. Deep canvas. Group D

Medicine Wheel

One of my more spiritual paintings depicting the Native American Indian Medicine Wheel. A pattern created on the ground in sacred places. Part of a running theme of pictures depicting skulls on the ground. 50 x 50cm. Deep Italian canvas. Group D

Lizard with Rocket Lolly

60 x 60 cm. An almost surreal painting heavy with technique and sympathetic colours. Contains vivid lighting techniques and a lizard having a sugar rush... Group C

Alone At Last

Romantic beach scene with clown foreground. Does that look funny to you? 70 x 50 x 3 cm.

The Last Laugh

60 x 60cm. The Last Laugh. Mysterious, sinister and amusing. Group D

Worlds Apart

We all live on this planet yet so often know so little about other species. Species we may be killing off through poisoning and habitat destruction. Coral reef damage is a good example. Part of the 'Blue Planet' series. The fish in this image was photographed by 'Aitch' (Helen Davison) and was reproduced in this painting at her request. 60 x 60 cm. Group D

Different Hymn Sheet (Diet Coca Cola Plan)

60 x 60 cm. Very complex acrylic painting. Group D

Cheeky Red

Kim Jong Il. Supreme leader of North Korea. First man in space and holder of the Land Speed Record in a tank. Kim also invented the secret coating found on Korean Fried Chicken. A little known fact is that Kim is an authority on wine and is the most respected wine enthusiast in Korea. He is also the only person in North Korea to have ever tasted wine. 60 x 60 cm. Group D