Jim Starr

PHOENIX

A bird, the only one of it's kind, that after living five or six centuries in the Arabian desert burnt itself on a funeral pile and rose from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle…..popularly found in movie and pop culture, literature and art.... For example Jean Grey a character in the XMEN who possessed enormous mutant abilities and powers and sometimes took the form of the phoenix…….

PHOENIX AND BEE EATERS

Phoenix I

Phoenix 1. Dreweatts Urban Contemporary Auction. SOLD

PHOENIX LANDSCAPE 2013

Mixed media on canvas.

Private collection Bristol. SOLD

PHOENIX II 2013

Acrylic spray can and mixed media on canvas.

Private Collection. Manchester. SOLD

PHOENIX II

Mixed media on canvas.

Exhibited with the London Westbank Gallery at Urban in Ibiza 2013

SOLD

Mini Phoenix

Mixed media on wooden packing case.

Private collection Brsitol. SOLD

MEDUSA

MEDUSA was the daughter of the sea-god PHORCYS. MEDUSA was created by Athene. She had snakes instead of hair, reptilian eyes and could turn ordinary mortals to stone with her stare. She and her two sisters, also monsters, were called Gorgons. This painting came about in the form of a private commission from a client in Bristol who wanted an absolutely drop dead gorgeous and sexy version of the mythical creature…….

MIDNIGHT BLUE MEDUSA

Private Collection Bristol. SOLD

BLOOD RED MEDUSA

Private Collection Bristol. SOLD

GREEN MEDUSA

Mixed media on canvas 2014

Private collection Paris. SOLD

ORIGINAL MEDUSA

Private Collection Bristol. SOLD

BLUE MEDUSA (medium)

Private Collection London. SOLD

VENOM MEDUSA

Private Collection Windsor. SOLD

MEDUSA ON WOOD

Private Collection Bristol. SOLD

BLUE MEDUSA

Private Collection London. SOLD

MEDUSA 2010

Medusa 2010

Black Screen-print with gloss red lips and hand embellishment with Montana 94 Cans. Hand pulled by the artist on vellum laid, ivory 250 g/m2 conservation paper. Edition of 50 signed, titled and numbered by the artist.

SOLD OUT

MEDUSA 2014

Royal blue screen print with gloss red lips and hand embellished with Montana 94 cans. Hand pulled by the artist on vellum laid, ivory 250 g/m2 conservation paper. Edition of 50 signed, titled and numbered by the artist.

(limited numbers available)

BRONZE AND BLUE MEDUSA 2010

2 Colour Screen-print on Bread and Butter Paper. Framed.

SOLD

LIVE PRINT

Printing Medusa's Live at SEE NO EVIL. Nelson Street. Bristol

VENICE PRINCESS

The first of the masked women. Mulitiple versions of this enigmatic figure have sold. This piece led directly into the Wildthing series…….

VENICE PRINCESS LANDSCAPE II

Mixed media on canvas 2014

Private collection London. SOLD

VENICE PRINCESS IV

Currently on show, [HERE] / Bristol.

VENICE PRINCESS 2017

Detail Shot - personal archive.

VENICE PRINCESS I

Mixed media on Canvas

Private Collection Bristol. SOLD

VENICE PRINCESS LANDSCAPE

Mixed media on wood 2014

Private collection Bristol. SOLD

VENICE PRINCESS III

Acrylic, spraypaint and mixed media on canvas.

Private collection London. SOLD

VENICE PRINCESS 2008

Venice Beach Princess

Mixed media and Acrylic on canvas.

Provenance The David Simon Gallery

Dreweatts Urban Art Auction 26th Feb 2009

Private Collection London SOLD

WILDTHINGS

Phoenix II or Peacock Poppycock

Thank-you to Catherine McFarland for modelling.

MEDUSA II

NEW Medusa for 2015….more info added soon….

BLUE MEDUSA II

Detail crop of Blue Medusa II

Private collection Bristol. SOLD

BLUE MEDUSA II

Private Collection Bristol. SOLD

GREEN MEDUSA II

RED MEDUSA II

MEDUSA II SQUARE PORTRAIT

Medusa portrait on wood. 130cm x 130cm

WILDTHING GALLERY PAINTINGS

Thank-you to Belinda Kirk, Catherine Mcfarland, Rachel Owen, Rachel Hall and Agatta for modelling. A really complete body of work and probably one of my best shows. It's All 2 Much Art Gallery 2012

ENGLISH ROSE

Mixed media on canvas 2012

PEACOCK POPPYCOCK

Mixed media on canvas 2012

Thank you to Catherine McFarland for modelling.

GOLD RUSH (DETAIL)

Mixed media on canvas 2012

STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

Mixed media on canvas 2012

RACHEL OWEN AND HER PORTRAIT

ENGLISH ROSE II

Mixed media on wood.

Private collection Bristol. SOLD

WILDTHING PRIVATE VIEW

BELINDA WITH RACHEL AND HER PORTRAIT

Wildthing Wall

The 5 portraits at It's All 2 Much, Bristol

THE HELLS ANGEL

DARK BLUE HELLS ANGEL

Mixed media on canvas.

Private collection Bristol. SOLD

LIGHT BLUE HELLS ANGEL

Mixed media on canvas.

Private collection Bristol. SOLD

RED HELLS ANGEL 2007

Mixed media on canvas.

Private Collection London. SOLD

HELLS ANGEL

Digital Mock-up and then produced as an original for the TOPMAN / TOPSHOP Flagship store in Oxford Street. London

HELLS ANGEL 2010

Mixed media on canvas

SOLD. Private collection London

BIRDS / NATURAL HISTORY AND LANDSCAPES

I have always been interested in Natural History and have travelled extensively as an expedition artist to four continents, taking photographs, making sketches and adding images to my personal stock. I work on canvas , paper and wood and just about any other surface that is flat enough to print on. Fusing simplicity and chaos the paintings and prints are created using original screenprinted material , photographs , freehand drawings , text and collage.I revel in the interwoven and undefined , the popular and the sublime.

This huge diversity of life and style from around the world is mixed as the figurative and the abstract – stained and distressed canvases are screenprinted or painted with bold images , a flicker of text or the drawn line.

AFRICAN CROWNED CRANE

Detail from section

AFRICAN CROWNED CRANE

Acrylic, spray-can and mixed media on 12oz Indian cotton canvas.

Private Collection - NEW YORK

BALD EAGLE

Detail from section

BALD EAGLE 2016

Acrylic, Spray-can and mixed media on 12oz Indian cotton canvas.

EUROPEAN SPOONBILL 2015

Acrylic and spray paint on 12oz Indian cotton canvas

Featured in the Apprentice House. BBC

Private collection UK.

BBC APPRENTICE INTERIOR 2015

SPIRIT EAGLE

Acrylic and spray-can on Indian cotton canvas.

Private Collection - LONDON.

SACRED IBIS DETAIL

SACRED IBIS

Acrylic on Indian cotton canvas.

Private Collection - UK

GREY HERON 2014

Acrylic and spray-can on Indian cotton canvas

Private Collection - LONDON.

GREY HERON 2014 DETAIL

PURPLE HERON 2015

Acrylic and spray can on Indian cotton canvas.

Private Collection - LONDON.

ROSEATE SPOONBILL 2014

Acrylic and spray-can on Indian cotton canvas.

Private Collection - Kingston Upon Thames.

ROSEATE SPOONBILL 2014

Acrylic and spray-can on Indian cotton canvas.

Private Collection - Kingston Upon Thames.

PEACOCK 2018

Acrylic on Canvas.

Private Collection UK.

HARPY EAGLE 2015

Acrylic and spray can on 12oz Indian cotton canvas.

Private collection, London.

HARPY EAGLE II

Acrylic and mixed media on wood.

Private collection, London

RED AND GOLD HARPY EAGLE

Private Collection UK

GREAT WHITE EGRET 2014

Acrylic and spray-can on canvas.

Private Collection London.

RIVERSIDE LONDON

Acrylic on canvas.

Private Collection London

THAMES TRIPTYCH

Acrylic on canvas

Private Collection London

HUMMING BIRD I 2014

Acrylic and spray-can on canvas.

Private collection Bristol

HUMMING BIRD II 2014

Acrylic and spray-can on canvas

HUMMING BIRD III 2014

Acrylic and spray-can on canvas

Private collection London

RED AND GREEN HUMMING BIRDS

Acrylic on canvas

Private collection Bristol. SOLD ON BEHALF OF TEMWA AUCTIONS

PINK AND RED HUMMING BIRDS

Acrylic on canvas.

Private collection London.

MONTANA STRIPES 98

Mixed media on canvas.

MONTANA ORIGINAL

Mixed media on canvas.

Private collection Somerset

BALD EAGLE SKETCH

DUNLIN

Pencil and watercolour on paper.

BSES Expedition to Svalbard Artist in Residence.

RINGED PLOVERS

Pencil and watercolour on paper

BSES Expedition to Iceland Artist in Residence

GREAT SKUA

Pencil and watercolour on paper

BSES Expedition to Iceland Artist in Residence

SNAEFELL ICELAND

BSES Expedition to Iceland Artist in Residence

RETRO AND AMERICANA

For me - early influences were movies and comics - particularly Marvel and DC. I loved old and new film posters and black and white photography. I was also influenced by such artists as Jasper Johns, Robert Raushenberg, Larry Rivers and later - Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton and Peter Blake……I also admired a group of American designers and illustrators - Bob Peak, Marshal Arisman, and Frank Frazetta. The poster design for Bruce Browns 'Endless Summer' is probably my favourite bit of graphic art of all time.

MARILYN STUDIES 2013

Private Collection Bristol. SOLD

F16 BLUE JET PINUP

Private Collection Bristol. SOLD

FLAMINGO HOTEL

Acrylic and Oil based screen-print with spray can on canvas.

Private collection Bristol. SOLD

POP TRIPTYCH 2010

Acrylic and Oil based screen-print and spray-can on wood.

Private Collection Bristol. SOLD

DESERT TRIP

Acrylic and Screen-print on indian cotton canvas.

Private Collection London. SOLD

FLAMINGO HOTEL

Screen-print and spray can on wooden panel.

Private collection Bristol. SOLD

FLAMINGO HOTEL PINUP

Acrylic screen-print and spray-can on wood.

SOLD

BLUE SWIMSUIT PINUP 2014

Installation at COLAB Bristol

PURPLE AND ORANGE SWIMSUIT PINUP

Installation at COLAB Bristol

PINK TWINS 2004

Private Collection, KENT.

MAN ALIVE I

Screen-print on paper.

Private collection USA. SOLD

MAN ALIVE II

Screen-print on paper.

Private collection USA. SOLD

MAN ALIVE III

Screen-print on paper.

Private collection USA. SOLD

Big Blue

ASIA

GOLD INDIAN PINUP

Private Collection, California, USA

INDIAN PINUP WITH TIGERS II

Mixed media with screen-print and spray-can on indian cotton canvas

Exhibited with FLUX at The Royal College of Art.

Currently featuring on BBC 1 APPRENTICE

INDIAN PINUP

Mixed media on wood.

SOLD. Private collection Bristol

INDIAN PINUP WITH TIGERS I

Mixed media with screen-print on canvas.

SOLD. Private collection London

INDIAN PINUP 2006

Private Collection, KENT.

ANGEL

Angel Designs produced for Award winning musician Sarah Class.

see www.sarahclass.com

Angel

The original Angel produced for Award winning musician and composer Sarah Class

ANGEL II

Mixed media on canvas. 2017

Private collection. UK

ANGEL III

Mixed media on wood. 2017

Private collection. Bristol.

AFRICA

In 1998 Jim travelled to South Africa, Lesotho and Zimbabwe and was an Expedition Artist for BSES Expeditions. In 2004 he visited The Gambia. Some of this work reflects those experiences whilst on those travels.

GOODU III

Mixed media on board.

Private collection Bristol. SOLD

GOODU THE CHIEF 2014

Mixed media on canvas.

Private collection London.

GOODU AND TANZANIAN FLAG 2011

Mixed media on canvas.

SOLD. Thank-you to SERGE from KASABIAN for giving this piece a good home.

GOODU DETAIL

Mixed media with spray paint on wooden panel.

SOLD. Private collection Barcelona

GOODU AND FLAG

Mixed Media and spray paint on canvas.

SOLD. Private collection London

GOODU III

Exhibited with the SEE NO EVIL Gallery at the Paintworks, Bristol.

SOLD in Paris. Private collection Barcelona.

LESOTHO 98

Mixed media on canvas.

SOLD. Private collection Bristol

ABSTRACTS

I have always been interested in Abstract and semi abstract art. I have been recently looking back at the works of Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Clifford Still, Willem De Kooning and Jackson Pollock. I have also been experimenting with large abstracted paintings by removing my screen printed subject matter from the 'top surface'……..

ICONS

Jim’s love of travel and his insatiable appetite for all that is lo-fi flows through his images. East meets West, white trash snuggles up with the glitterati, good battles evil and much more in-between.

Joker Marilyn

Joker Marilyn produced for the Bat Show at It's all 2 Much Art Gallery in Bristol. SOLD. Private Collection, Bristol.

MARILYN STUDIES

Mixed media and screen-print on canvas 2010

Private collection Bristol. SOLD

MARILYN STUDY

Mixed media and screen-print on canvas.

Private collection Bristol. SOLD

MARILYN LANDSCAPE 2008

Mixed media on canvas.

Private collection Bristol. SOLD

AMERICAN ICON

Mixed media on wood.

Private collection Bristol. SOLD

ELVIS CHRIST / JESUS PRESLEY

Mixed media on canvas.

Private collection London. SOLD

ELVIS

Screen-print and mixed media with spray-can on vintage 60's newspaper mounted on wood.

£400

AUDREY HEPBURN

Screen-print and mixed media on canvas.

Private collection London. SOLD

SCREEN PRINT ARKIVE

Artists' Prints

The Screenprints that I produce from my studio in Bristol are all handmade and are not reproductions of paintings. The print is a unique work in itself. The term covers a range of printmaking techniques such as etching, woodcut, engraving, screen print and linocut. Editions rarely exceed 50 in number partly because the materials used tend to wear out. This type of print is sometimes called an 'original print' and that is the type of work I specialise in. All the prints I produce are signed, titled and numbered with pencil in my studio.

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