One summer day the artists: Charles Turner, George Belmonte and Keith Malone took an afternoon nap in the soft grass shaded by a linden tree. When suddenly, leaping up with a “Yeeowch” all three found they had been stung by a single bee with a triple stinger!
As is often the case for artists, this experience immediately resulted in an outpouring of creativity and fantastical works which they began without even bothering to remove the venomous barb impaling them.

The resulting paintings and poems will be displayed at the Old Hairdresser on Monday August 25th opening at 6 pm.

Artist Bios

George Belmonte

I enjoy telling strange stories with my paintings that sometimes make you laugh and sometimes make you blink and touch the back of your hand. My motivation in this is only then for a few seconds to erode this modern feeling of cruel superficiality.

Charles Turner

Chairs, vegetables, beasts, wizards, matches, coins, knights, hats, ducks, instruments, and sometimes straw. These things come together in layered, fragmented compositions that reflect how memory, myth, and the everyday all tangle up in each other.

Keith Malone

Keith is an enigmatic artist from the green hills of Ireland. Not one for small talk, he can be observed walking quickly with a cigarette in his mouth and ten brand new paintings tucked under an arm. It was once said he has used enough canvas in his paintings to cover .12 square kilometers, which is the size of the city of Atrani in Italy. Occasionally he can be seen squeezing a lime into a diet pepsi while speaking softly about how lovely he finds tomato sandwiches.