Geoffrey Stapleton

Some New Work 2013

(a red dot denotes the piece is sold)

 

Fringe Dwellers

acrylic on canvas - 46cm x61cm (18"x 24")

$1100

This was painted on the street in front of The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery at 95A Prospect Rd Prospect S.A. in 2013. I have always felt like a bit of a fringe dweller and there is a bit of the Brazilian influence here as well.

 

Ska Band

acrylic on canvas - 46cm x61cm (18"x 24")

$1100

This was painted on the street in front of The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery at 95A Prospect Rd Prospect S.A. in 2013. I love ska music and i love painting musical instruments. This is where it all came together.

 

The King Was In His Counting House

acrylic on canvas - 55cm x 70cm (21.5" x 27.5")

$1100

This was painted on the street in front of The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery at 95A Prospect Rd Prospect S.A. in 2013. It looks like the king's reign may be coming to an end.

 

Woman With Harp

acrylic on canvas - 46cm x61cm (18"x 24")

$900

This was painted on the street in front of The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery at 95A Prospect Rd Prospect S.A. in 2013. Music paints pictures, and none more so than the music played on a harp.

 

Alice's Restaurant

acrylic on canvas - 46cm x61cm (18"x 24")

$900

This was painted on the street in front of The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery at 95A Prospect Rd Prospect S.A. in 2013. Alice's Restaurant touches on two cultural icons.

 

Mr. SQUIGGLE

acrylic on canvas - 60cm x 76cm (24" x30")

$1200

This was painted on the street in front of The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery at 95A Prospect Rd Prospect S.A. in 2013. Mr Squiggle was probably my earliest artitstic inspiration and has remained so.This is an homage to my hero. God bless Norman Hetherington.

 

Cubist Painter

acrylic on canvas - 46cm x61cm (18"x 24")

$900

This was painted on the street in front of The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery at 95A Prospect Rd Prospect S.A. in 2013. The painter and model live in the cubist world, where as the painting is of the real world.

 

Woman With Vase And Flowers

acrylic on canvas - 46cm x61cm (18"x 24")

$600

This was painted on the street in front of The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery at 95A Prospect Rd Prospect S.A. in 2013. I was very happy with her hairstyle...or perhaps it's a hat.

 

I Married A Bongo Player From Outer Space

acrylic on canvas - 46cm x61cm (18"x 24")

$600

This was painted on the street in front of The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery at 95A Prospect Rd Prospect S.A. in 2013. I'm not sure where this one came from but it seemed to make sense in a 1950's B- grade movie kind of a way.

 

Best Friends

acrylic on canvas - 46cm x61cm (18"x 24")

$900

This was painted on the street in front of The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery at 95A Prospect Rd Prospect S.A. in 2013. Best friends come in all shapes and sizes.

 

When In Rome

acrylic on canvas - 61cm x 76cm (24" x 30")

$1100

This was painted on the street in front of The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery at 95A Prospect Rd Prospect S.A. in 2012 . I always loved the movies set in Rome during the 1950s and ‘60s and in particular the abundance of very cool scooters that populated any street scenes.

 

 

The Fashion Parade

acrylic on canvas - 90 cm x 70 cm (35.5'' x 27.5")

$1,200

This was painted on the street in front of The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery at 95A Prospect Rd Prospect S.A. in 2012 and concerns itself with the sometimes outrageous creativity invoved in fashion design. One of the last times I got to take my mum on an outing was to the Adelaide Royal Show where a friend, Emma Smith, was part of a show which I think was called "Blooming Marvellous". It was a fashion parade with people dressed as flowers with the most vivid costumes. I thought of that a number of times while I put this painting together.

 

North By A Point

acrylic on canvas - 90 cm x 70 cm (35.5'' x 27.5")

$1200

When I was a child, my grandfather L.W. Mcleod owned the local deli called “Mac’s Tuck Shop” on the corner of Balfour Street. and Main North Road Nailsworth. He was a one-eyed supporter of the local Aussie Rules football club, North Adelaide aka “The Roosters”. In 1960, my sister, the artist Jean Gardiner, painted 2 pictures housed back to back in the same frame (made by my brother Bill Stapleton) of a rooster triumphant and the other beaten and bloodied. Depending on whether Norths won or lost, the appropriate rooster would be on show. That’s what inspired this painting and I feel as though this is a bit of a cross between Jean's two roosters ,and it was painted on the street in front of The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery, 95A Prospect Rd Prospect S.A. Australia in June 2012.

 

 

Green Dress

acrylic on canvas - 50 cm x 80 xcm (19.6'' x 31.5")

$1,100

Every now and then a painting comes along and you have no idea where it's come from or what it all means, but somehow it seems to hit a spot. It wan't until the mice appeared that the painting really started to make sense, although I can't for the life of me think why.

 

 

Casino

acrylic on canvas - approx 90 cm x 70 cm

$1200

Painted on the street in front of The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery, 95A Prospect Rd Prospect S.A. Australia in March 2013

 

 

Golden Cage

acrylic on canvas - approx 101 cm x 70 cm

$1100

Perhaps this is about a young woman who manages to escape the confines of her stifling marriage to a wealthy but possessive husband, moves to the city and is free at last to pursue her dream of becoming a fabulously successful model. It was painted on the street in front of The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery at Prospect in 2013

 

 

After The Party

acrylic on canvas - 61cm x 76cm (24" x 30")

$1100

Painted out on the street in front of The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery 95A Prospect Rd Prospect S.A. Australia, it wasn't only an excuse to paint some toys in bright colours, although it was that too. It was also about a tolerant and loving mum who was prepared to play on, even after the party's over and the guests have gone home, just to let fun last a little bit longer. In the background near the castle can be seen "Chickenduck and little CD"

 

 

Flamingos

acrylic on canvas - 50 cm x 80 xcm (19.6'' x 31.5")

$790

Painted on the street in front of The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery, 95A Prospect Rd Prospect S.A. Australia in June 2012, it was inspired by the pink, plastic flamingos that occasionally gather out on the street in front of our local florist “Wild Fusion” at 124 a Prospect Road.

 

 

Blue

acrylic on canvas - approx 101 cm x 70 cm

$900

Painted on the street in front of The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery, 95A Prospect Rd Prospect S.A. Australia in 2013.I planned for this picture to engage both sides of the brain

 

 

 

Inspiration/Redemption

acrylic on canvas - 90 cm x 70 cm (35.5'' x 27.5")

$990

Painted out on the street in front of The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery 95A Prospect Rd Prospect S.A. Australia . I was never sure whether to call this piece "Redemption" or "Inspiration" but then I realised that they can be one and the same. Inspiration has always seemed somehow divine to me. It can be found in the most unlikely places, often in the nick of time and ultimately seems to be delivered by an angel.

 

 

After The Accident

acrylic on canvas - 90 cm x 70 cm (35.5'' x 27.5")

$1200

This was the first painting I did out on the street in front of The Geoffrey Stapleton Gallery 95A Prospect Rd Prospect S.A. Australia .While I was painting it, a number of people stopped and told me what they thought the painting was about, which was helpful because I don't really think I knew what it was about myself. It had come to me in a dream (that rarely happens) and I sketched it out as soon as I got up.An earlier unfinished version appeared in the Seeing Cycles exhibition, but it was July 2012 before it was properly completed.

 

 

Childhood's End

acrylic on canvas - 152 cm x101cm

$1800

Whether the teddy bear jumps or is pushed, at some point on life’s often fraught journey, childhood ends.