One Step Closer

One Step CloserArtist: Fringe Title: One Step Closer Media: Oil on canvas Size: 100cm x 100cm Authentication certificate included FRINGE BIO Fringe, born in 1976, has used imagery from the mass media, digital media, and cartoons to movie culture, to produce paintings on canvas, figurative plastic and bronze sculptures filled with irony and satire. Fringes story is a combination of high output and well timed solo exhibitions that have launched his signature series.

This intense lion portrait was taken in the last moments of sunlight from a bespoke cage at Kevin Richardson’s lauded lion sanctuary

I just can’t bring myself to drift from my default position of wanting wild west saloon images to be long of menace

That is a tour of duty that currently spans 62 years and there is no sign of an imminent denouement

then so much the better

there were many distractions for them on set and I needed their focus and attention

I was fortunate that through our deep ties in Norway

as did she

We were going Irish and tough

but also in full recognition of Telluride’s very colourful past

one of the world’s most identifiable and revered women

Her default position is to have fun and get into character which makes her easy to direct and the camera loves her

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