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Untitled (Two hours stuck on a plane at Gatwick with no air-conditioning) A good example of the well-known dictum suffering makes great art. Poor Ptolemy created this work as he sat, roasting, in a plane that had a problem with its engine. The mental anguish of flying in a machine that you have been told … Read more
What a fire cracker of a work! Ptolemy hits it out of the All-England Club once again with his meditation on existence and grass. “July is when I watch more tennis than any other time of the year. Of course I am primed to make art about the daily assault of grass on my eyes. … Read more
A canvas by Ptolemy created after he witnessed an accident in Berkeley Square between a taxi and a young woman. Luckily she walked away, the contents of her handbag strewn across the road. Ptolemy represents the fear, the surprise, the empathy in the searing lines of colour that cross the canvas. An art critic writes… … Read more
Yellow, the universal colour of melancholy since Goethe and Zola, imbues this canvas with a sense of deep alarm and overwrought anxiety. How does Ptolemy keep producing such winsome works? The blotches of greyed-green add an almost regal quality to the ensemble, reminiscent of works by such luminaries as Stubbs, Wilkins-Butt and R.E. Walton. “In … Read more
What a work! Ptolemy hits it out of the park again, with Feeling like a Marinara pizza, but they don’t sell it. What colors! What size! What a message of peace and love – for the pizza talk is obviously a distraction from his real meaning. Surely what is before us is actually a proto-flag? … Read more
Oh how the world attacks us and lays us low! Lucky I am that I am an artist and can express these terrors in artworks that sell for fortunes! This worry, that I will be hot, bothered, decide to cool my seething brow with an ice cream, only to find that it is…insipid. This is … Read more