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The Greatest Beard In Football – Olof Mellberg The Greatest Beard In Football – Olof Mellberg Some might take issue with the title of the painting and point to late period George Best, Trevor Hockey, Danny McGrain, Frank Lampard (original recipe) and Socrates. Or even that…
Inevitably The Best Team of All Time Has To Have Not Won The World Cup: Brazil 82 Inevitably The Best Team of All Time Has To Have Not Won The World Cup: Brazil 82 My attempts to capture Brazilian football in paint continue, with this picture of the 1982 World Cup team, specifically Zico, Socrates (I finished the painting a couple of days before…
Wanting to be Rivelino Wanting to be Rivelino When I was five years old I watched a few games in the 1970 World Cup and decided I didn’t care how England got on – I wanted to become…
Bob Latchford – Goal Machine! Bob Latchford – Goal Machine! The Birmingham City years. It actually looks more like my old science teacher from school who, when we were 12, showed us how to make homebrew. Or maybe it's more…
Sepp Maier’s Vast Knowledge of Body Language Sepp Maier’s Vast Knowledge of Body Language In the way that sometimes films get novelised, this is an old illustration that’s been paintingised [barks at PA – “Get that word copyrighted NOW!”]. Or is it called reverse…
Sacre Bleu! It’s Dominique Rocheteau Sacre Bleu! It’s Dominique Rocheteau I knew I wanted to paint a member of the great late-70s/early-80s French team but didn’t know which one, until my hand started swirling around great lumps of brown paint…
Goals, Speed, Big Muscles – Cyrille Regis Goals, Speed, Big Muscles – Cyrille Regis Everyone's favourite WBA player in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In the parallel universe where logic always prevails, Cyrille Regis was the England team's No 1 striker for half…
Dick Krzywicki
 Dick Krzywicki
 From my ongoing Great Lincolnshire Footballers series. Obviously Dick Krzywicki wasn’t born in Lincolnshire – everyone knows he comes from Flintshire. But he played in Graham Taylor’s legendary mid 70s…
I Am Eric I Am Eric This painting attempts to see into the sad-eyed, sardine loving soul of Eric Cantona. With his slightly confusing football-exisentialist philosophy, Eric can be seen as a direct descendent of Sartre,…
Life Lessons of the Utility Man Life Lessons of the Utility Man This is a painting of Leeds United legend Paul Madeley, who was so talented he could play virtually anywhere on the pitch and did so with humility and without regard…
Georgie Best (Superstar) Georgie Best (Superstar) Someone once said that all paintings of cultural icons ought to contain nods to other cultural icons. With this in mind I produced a small series of works on the…
Ooh. Aah... Ooh. Aah... This is the great Paul McGrath mid 90s Villa style in a full body pose so you can get a good look at those legendary knees. To youngsters who don’t…
Barry Kitchener Barry Kitchener Painting of the legendary Millwall defender who died recently. This was a commission taken through WSC.
Smash and Grab Smash and Grab Everyone has their favourite classic football strike partnership – Lineker and Beardsley, Toshack and Keegan, Sutton and Shearer, Niall Quinn and Perry Groves – but none has been as legendary…
Gerry Francis - Captain of England (in 1976) Gerry Francis - Captain of England (in 1976) This was originally yet another painting of Rivelino but I was banned from doing more Brazil pictures by the Institute of Brazilian Football Folk Art in Rio*, who said I…
Jan Pawel II Jan Pawel II This was a commission by someone who wanted to see the late John Paul II in goalkeeper’s gear. Most of my paintings reference Orthodox icons but this is really in…
The Godlike Genius of Tony Currie The Godlike Genius of Tony Currie This is Leeds-era Tony Currie, though some might argue that his classic period was his time at Sheffield United – however, there’s no denying that this late 70s Leeds kit…
Klaus Fischer: Mr Bicycle Kick Klaus Fischer: Mr Bicycle Kick 1970s/80s German striker Klaus Fischer had the ability to hang in the air for what seemed like hours waiting for the ball to come across, before whacking it into the…

The Finsbury Park Institute of Football Art

What I’m trying to get at with these paintings is that it is a kind of religious – or at least, spiritual – painting, hence the reference to Eastern Orthodox icons as well as Egyptian funerary art. If you are under 40 you might not know some of these old footballers – but they were once the 70s/80s versions of superstars.

The Finsbury Park Institute of Football Art is not actually in Finsbury Park – It's about eight minutes walk away. And it isn’t really an institute, at least not yet. It’s just that the acronym (FPIFA) looks remarkably similar to that for FIFA, the world governing body for football. What I’m hoping is that people might be looking for the FIFA website in order to make a hosting bid for the World Cup and end up buying one of my football art paintings or prints instead.

Last summer I did an interview with US Soccer Players blog. They wanted to talk about my football art. I like to think I come across as friendly and approachable when I do interviews but when I saw it written down afterwards I fear I might actually be a pretentious loon.

When Saturday Comes magazine sells these paintings through their online shop – and I do quite a few commissions for this kind of painting.

If you are interested in a painting or want to talk about commissions, email me

 

 

 

  

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