BILLY Connolly has released his latest collection of limited edition artworks.
Six new pieces from the 80-year-old comic’s Born On A Rainy Day collection are now available to buy, framed or unframed, from Castle Fine Art.
Since launching his first pieces with the contemporary art gallery in 2012, Connolly has incorporated more colour and some of his trademark humour into his designs.
One piece from the new collection, which depicts a series of spheres, is entitled A Load Of Old Bollocks.
“I couldn’t think of a name for the piece I started to draw, so I thought A Load Of Old Bollocks would cover it nicely,” he said.
The worldwide launch of the collection will be on March 30.
The other pieces are called: Birds On A Wire, Headrest, Backseat Driver, Very Humble Goldfish, and Helping Mummy With Twine.
On Backseat Driver, he said: “I’m very fond of him. I didn’t know what it was at first, because it didn’t have legs. It was just a shape.
“It was like a potato scone, and then I got the idea for the horse and I put a head on it, and the legs, but I couldn’t work out a way to put the legs on his back. So I gave it a rest, I put a little chair in.”
He said he “pondered for ages on the title” of Birds On A Wire, but once he finished it the song by Leonard Cohen of the same title kept coming to him.
“The man in the picture is sitting on a seat with his legs dangling over, doing a sort of martial art, and the ball is just a ball,” he said.
“The birds let you know which way is up. If you want to know which way to hang it, the birds are the right way up – my drawings come with instructions.”
