Posted on: December 31st, 2008 Ian Francis Simply Kills It (oh, and he’s also in our new issue)
By now, we expect you to have already devoured the current January issue of Juxtapoz. However, we were just again browsing through one of the copies stashed in our offices, while sporting a slight smile and holding back chuckles of delight (kind of like the reaction you get when you discover a new google match for your name) as we re-visited the incredible work of Ian Francis.
This Bristol-based mixed media painter quite frankly kills it. His work is bright, beautiful, complex, and downright sexy. Who else can incorporate sweeping abstract brush strokes into slightly pornographic images of fishnet stocking-clad women and have the outcome make you feel simultaneously awestruck and horny?
“My work is about modern life, particularly television, world events, celebrities, and day-to-day living,” writes Francis. “It’s about pornography and news reports from war zones instead of sex and death.”
Okay, whatever you get from Francis’ work, read his feature in our January issue and then take a gander over to his website at www.ifrancis.co.uk. It’s bloody brilliant stuff.
