Like a few things in his life, Russell has ended up doing some arts by either default or by accident and finding out he wasn't too shabby at it and going on to make a major dent in proceedings. photography is one such case in point.
It was while married to his pop singer wife Eleanor Rigby who he wrote and produced that he found his knack for photography. After doing shots for her and some years later an iconic shot for Misty Woods (that was nominated as photo of the decade) that he became inundated with requests to do photo shoots but resisted until he needed to pay the rent then did quite a bit. He only really took it seriously when an art curator wanted to featured 6 of his photos in an exhibition The Most Iconic Rock Photography of the Last Six Decades, that also featured legendary snappers David Bailey & Mick Rock. This then led to offers of many solo exhibitions and joint exhibitions in recent years cumulating in 3 last year, including a 6-week solo multi-platform show called The Last Male Geisha Standing (see photo catalogue further down the page) Where he also performed poetry, did a book signing and debuted songs via live performance of tracks from his new Psykick Holiday album called Sensory Art.
Another catalyst to him taking photography more seriously was meeting his French muse Maiko (Aka Aurelie Freoua) who is an established Abstract painter in her own right (often called the John Coltrain of Abstract Art) She encouraged Russ to paint and he came up with the new Sensory Art painting concept. Which was to push each others emotions in multiple ways and both paint onto a canvas at the same time creating a joint work (10 paintings have been done so far).
Russells photo/art journey then attracted world famous Saatchi Art who asked to represent him. He accepted on a non-exclusive basis and you can view much of his work at their website (link below) However, he also wants most of his photo-art to be affordable, so he does limited-edition photo canvases and those images feature in the two videos on this page at very afforderble prices. If interested in acquiring an image on canvas, all you need to do is drop us an email and cite the name of the piece or pieces you want and we will furnish you with a price and more details (They are very affordable)
If you want to be put on the mailing list for the next exhibition, also drop us an email.
Russell also had two limited edition books of photography & song lyrics released Voyeurs Welcome Vol.1 sold out in two weeks and has become very collectible. Vol.2 is now down to its last few copies and can be acquired via the link below.
