Original artwork description:

Urban Pop art in your own home by cult artist Sly.

Grandma's other budgie (on an Urbox) + free poem.


Grandma's Budgie.
by Juan Sly


Grandma had a Budgie, she kept in a cage:
It didn't live to any great age.

It would squawk and scratch and make a mess then drink from a bottle and fall from its perch "a bit like Grandpa", she said.

One night it fell and broke its leg,
so;
Grandma kindly soothed its wounds with liquid paraffin.
And splint its bones, with a match.

She forgot about the sandpaper at the bottom of the cage.

I said it didn't live to any great age.

These are not prints as each is individually done and signed to order and consequently will vary slightly from the illustrated picture. These paintings are sprayed onto canvas 610x760x20 mm and are ready to hang.

(Also available on The Daily Telegraph, an Urbox, watercolour paper or plain paper at various prices if you search elsewhere.)

Juan Sly is likely the biggest seller of original artwork in the UK. An artist exhibiting in spray stencils, newspaper and oils, he has exhibited at the Saatchi (a proper gallery with pillars and everything!) alongside the likes of Banksy, Terry O'Neil, Tracy Emin and Vic Reeves, and has permanent collections in Ireland, Detroit and England, alongside Damien Hirst and some other artists you might have heard of, plus private collections around the globe. His works rock from humour to anti-war, sex to surreal. He is particularly fond of the stencil medium as it allows him to respond quickly to events and ideas and gives his works a gritty, illegal look. The stencils naturally allow the works to be resprayed, and consequently become affordable and disposable. He likes the fact that people can buy art which they like, and not to show off how much they can afford. You can find them in bedsits, legal offices in the Temple or stuck to a fence in Bristol.

Spiel by Steeve.

Materials used:

Spray paint

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