5/5/2023 0 Comments Fastest portrait painter![]() ![]() Ian’s greatest performance came last October when he was commissioned by Reebok to paint a portrait of Lewis Hamilton to be hung on the Tower Bridge in London. It’s like a kind of street art where you see the image being produced before you I guess it’s essentially a performance!” When asked why the sport has been so forthcoming with commissions: “Mostly I think people like watching the paintings being made. When I met Ian he was painting cars at the Rally Great Britain in Cardiff within a week he was in Abu Dhabi for the city’s first Grand Prix. Ian calls this style PopBang Colour, and for the last eighteen months it has found a welcoming home in the world of motorsport. The first real image I did was Pudsey Bear for the BBC from there I went into portraits, logos and eventually cars.” “I started off just dipping the tyres in paint and doing circles, then shapes, and it grew from that. Now twenty-six, the Brummie’s inventive, perhaps facetious, qualities haven’t been eroded: “I came up with the idea of using radio-controlled cars to paint when my girlfriend bought me a radio-controlled car for Christmas and told me not get any paint on it.” Ex-girlfriend that is.Ĭook, who studied at the Winchester School of Art, has been developing his craft for two years. Presumably at GCSE level Ian Cook was expounding the virtues of Rothko and making sculptures out of cigarettes. This might help to indicate why when I heard about an artist who made his living by driving toy cars across a canvas I was more surprised than most. To add life to the piece I managed to glue a vinyl and some drumsticks to the page, firm in the belief that this exhibition of devil-may-care insurrectionism would turn the art establishment on its head. For GCSE Art & Design I once had to paint a canvas full of things representing rock and roll. ![]()
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