This one off artwork has been sold, but if you are interested in buying a print of this or in commissioning a similar painting please contact me.  01268 522973		Title: Paul Weller Size: 60" x 30" Medium: Acrylic Collage on Canvas   This one off artwork has been sold, but if you are interested in buying a print of this or in commissioning a similar painting please contact me.     Buy this image as.   Signed and numbered limited edition print         Card £2.99                 Coaster £3.50                 Coaster set (six) £19.99                 Keyring £2.50                 Badge £1.50                 Badge set (three) £5.99

Paul Weller (born John William Weller, 25 May 1958, in Stanley Road, Woking, Surrey) is an English singer-songwriter.
Weller was the leader and creator behind the formation of two successful bands, The Jam and The Style Council. In the UK, he is recognised as something of a national institution, yet because much of his songwriting is rooted in British culture, he has remained essentially a national rather than an international star. He was also the principal figure of the Mod revival.
At the time of the Jam’s emergance in the latter half of the seventies, Elvis was dead and my interest in all things rock and roll was just igniting, as the mod revival and new wave was taking hold I was having my own personal rebellion, the new music filled the airwaves, I couldn’t ignore it, but I bought old rock and roll records like it was going out of fashion, which of course it was.
How could all these other kids know anything about being a mod when they had no appreciation of musical history other than the last few years, there was no way I was gonna be a ‘plastic mod’. So I became a ‘Ted’, drainpipes, bootlace ties, Tony Curtis haircut and a black drape coat with velvet collars. Of course I stuck out like a sore thumb, and after a few beatings, sore arm, sore legs, sore head!
Although it didn’t last much longer than a year, I felt I’d done the right thing, by the time of the early eighties my musical tastes moved on and I discovered the Beatles, then the Kinks and The Who, by the mid eighties it was Jimi Hendrix and the Small Faces, of course I remembered the early seventies music, so in a sense by the early nineties I had caught up.
The emergance of Brit Pop in the mid-nineties with Bands like Ocean Colour Scene and Oasis helped me to rediscover and re-evaluate and finally appreciate bands like The Jam from that period in the latter seventies, but I also understand there influences such as the Kinks and the Beatles and the artists who influenced them, such as Elvis, Buddy Holly and Carl Perkins . It was a great musical voyage that I am extremly pleased I took.
This painting is a digital image collage with acrylic on canvas.
Finished Jan 2007.

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