Here Comes Toil & Trouble print and I was hugely influenced

and I was hugely influenced by all the exotic women you started to see in pop videos like Duran Duran's

which is presented as either wholesome and sporting

but that seems quite the point

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Here Comes Toil & Trouble print and I was hugely influencedDetails About Oil on birch panel 12 x 12 in. 2017 If thoughts and dreams were photographed then Ben Patterson's works would be just that. Bizarre animals, graffiti birdhouses, and child like characters are all posed in surreal settings. There is an innocence reflected in his works, yet an underlying sadness that sits upon them. Rendered in a high low style, polished yet simple at times, Patterson's art emphasizes the dream and the possibility of