Major league mother trucker 19 by Lee Ellis
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Medium: spray paint and oil stick on paper
Dimensions: 59.4 x 84 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $1700.00 USD
Status: available
In creating "Major League Mother Trucker," I poured my emotions directly onto the paper, capturing a raw, unfiltered moment of chaos and energy. This piece was born in a single sitting, a testament to the immediacy and intensity I felt at that time. The vibrant spray paint and expressive oil pastel strokes reflect a whirlwind of feelings, a cathartic release that I often seek in my work. The bold, contrasting colors and dynamic textures mirror the tumultuous inner landscape I navigated during its creation. The orange backdrop serves as a fiery canvas for the layered blues and yellows, each stroke a visceral expression of my state of mind. This portrait is not just an image but a snapshot of a fleeting emotional experience, preserved on paper. I hope viewers feel the immediacy and authenticity of this piece. It’s a glimpse into the spontaneous and unrestrained side of my artistic journey. I invite you to connect with the emotion and energy, finding your own reflection in its vibrant chaos.
Why collect this work?
A horned, mask-like head is compressed against an abrasive green field, turning a frontal portrait into a tense collision between comic exaggeration and alarm.
- Ellis states that his practice addresses depression and addiction through bright colour, and treats making as catharsis. Here, that intention helps explain the uneasy contrast without determining the figure’s meaning.
- In the photograph, white-ringed eyes interrupt a roughly worked purple face, while the cropped shoulders anchor its distorted head. Repeated vertical marks make the green ground feel active rather than recessive.
- The documented spray paint and oil stick on paper permit broad colour fields alongside opaque, resistant marks. Their different handling supports the friction between flattened silhouette and smeared facial detail.
- Encountered as a portrait, the work tests how little anatomical coherence is needed for recognition. Its humour does not cancel unease, but makes the figure’s emotional register harder to settle.
About the Artist
Lee Ellis
Lee Ellis is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Bristol, United Kingdom.
Nationality: British
Themes I explore within my work are depression and addiction, how they affect people and the ways in which they are masked through 'bright' colours...
