heavydog

Visiting a bank today in the town where I work, it didn’t take me long to notice the line drawing of a naked woman on the wall. It was, however, not a very good drawing (it was black ink on white paper, the artist had made a mistake drawing one of the breasts and subsequently used Tip-ex (Whiteout for the yankee doodle dandees) to correct it) and there was another, equally bad one on the wall next to it. It wasn’t so much the fact the pictures were poor, mounted badly or framed differently to all the other pictures in the bank, it was that the artist wanted £95 for what was, essentially, a childs drawing.

Looking round the bank further, I noticed there were other utterly purile and disingenuos works hanging on all the other walls. Some were oils, some acrylics all atrocious and all had a ridiculous price tag attached to them. Although I am aware of the “one mans meat is another mans poison” analogy, I think these works would poison any viewers opinion of the Reigate Art Society.

I decided to take the issue into my own hands and make a public comment on quite how ridiculous the whole affair is, perhaps greater hubris than should be allowed for such a simple peice. Anyway, et voila: