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I have had a revelation. I can be an artist.

Richard Mellor

GED/HEO

 

I have wanted for a long time to express myself in art but didn't have the confidence; I was destined to be a ditch digger. I remember when I met the woman who was to become my first American wife and why I am here in the US. She took me to the National Gallery in London’s Trafalgar Square. Maybe I took her to impress her; I can’t remember. At the time she was the girlfriend of a US American guy I had met while hitchhiking around Europe; a good man I am still in touch with 54 years on. She, like he did, wanted to travel in Europe. I met him on the beach in San Tropez in 1967

 

Anyway, we went to the National Gallery. I remember going inside and there was a sign that said there was a Leonardo Da Vinci cartoon on show in a special room. This sounded interesting I said to myself, “I’d like to see a good cartoon”. I was a big Tom and Jerry fan.

 

I walked in to this room that was dimly lit in order to preserve this cartoon. Why a cartoon needed preserving I wasn’t sure. I had in mind something like Tom and Jerry or Mickey Mouse or something like that. You see, my friend has a university education and knew what it was, but I wasn’t too cued in to art. I ended up marrying her and we too are still good friends. I learned a lot from her.

 

It turned out this cartoon was a drawing of sorts. I stood there a bit perplexed. People were staring at it in awe, looking at it for quite sometime. So I looked at this old drawing from some Italian dude from a long time ago, I was aware of who he was but never paid any attention to his drawings. I did know he painted the Mona Lisa. She was supposed to be the most beautiful woman ever but I think Christine Keeler and at that time Hayley Mills beat her out. I spent a lot of time thinking about Christine Keeler at that time. But who am I to judge, an uneducated laboring boy from the UK. I looked at it for 10 minutes and walked out. It looked OK.

 

Anyway, I have come a long way since then. I read about Picasso paintings that my mum used to think were silly and Dali paintings of melting clocks not to mention other such artistic works fetching millions of dollars.

 

Penis meets tomato after a beer

So I have decided it is time I use the skills I have acquired over many years as a blue collar worker to express myself in a way that can add to the great art that human beings have produced over the centuries.Is it possible it is proletarian socialist realism?

 

I have included here two photographs that took a great deal of thought and work to produce; I had to arrange the pieces, get the light right, the composition is exquisite. The titles beneath the images, express the deepest emotions and thoughts of the average US working man.

 

I am hoping that these works of art will sell, I am convinced Angelina Jolie will be interested in purchasing them. I will donate any monies I receive to my union’s strike fund and to the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to hetero sexual Englishmen.