STUCKISM Charles Thomson paintings

Paintings May 2002 - 2004 here
Paintings July 2001 - April 2002 ('Stella Vine' Paintings) (this page)
Paintings October 1997 - June 2001 here


WOMAN IN NEW YORK The wedding day. Dress: Betty Jackson	THE ORANGE TREE PUB, TOTTERIDGE Venue of several visits	WHITE COFFEE CUPS Stella introduced me to Starbucks	STARBUCKS	GREEN COFFEE CUPS	BLUE TABLE TOP Cafe in Finchley after an abrupt departure of Stella

COMING CLOSER TO GOD	RAINY DAY AT WHITSTABLE Visited for a couple of days	MAN AND WOMAN ON THE BEACH	I NEED MORE SPACE Stella's motto	ALL THE SPACE IN THE WORLD	WOMAN IN THE DARK Stella went off on her own. I ended up having a barbeque with Billy Childish and family on the beach.

SMALL ORANGE YACHT	SMALL PINK YACHT	BIG ORANGE YACHT	WAVING GOODBYE AND SAILING INTO THE FUTURE	SMALL RED YACHT	WOMAN WITH A GAG IN THE SEA


WOMAN IN THE SEA	THE LAUGHING CAVALIER (after Hals)	MRS SIDDONS (after Gainsborough)	THE PAINTER AND HIS WIFE (after Gainsborough)	FACES ON KARL- FRIEDRICHSTRASSE (after Munch)	LIFE IS GREAT from an earlier painting circa 1979 Download on your mobile here - click STILL, then ART


STRIPPER Pose derived from a painting (later destroyed) which Stella did in my studio	STRIP CLUB Getting her stories and An imaginative recreation of Stella's stories of being a stripper	PSYCHEDELIC STELLA	AMERICAN PROM NIGHT Kat, a friend, visiting my then Finchley home. Stella was there and went off somewhere.	MAN WITH YELLOW FACE	SELF PORTRAIT WITH PAINTBRUSH

The Stella Vine paintings
I met Stella in the summer of 2001. We got married in New York three months later and split up two months after that. During that time and its immediate aftermath I did about 30 paintings and 250 drawings (some of the drawings are here). Most of the drawings were done during the relationship and most of the paintings after it. The seaside paintings are all based on a visit to Whitstable for a couple of days, where we also spent some time with Billy Childish and his wife Julie. In 2004 Stella was bought and promoted by Charles Saatchi.

The upper case text under each painting is the title and the lower case a note (and not part of the title).