The fabled musician and poet Bob Dylan just cannot put his paint brush down. The folk singer’s art escapades have been well documented, including shows at London’s Halcyon Gallery in 2008 and 2016. Dylan is back on the art beat once more at the same gallery with a show called Point Blank (until 6 July) featuring 97 paintings created between 2021 and 2022. (The works were originally sketches; the singer painted over them in a masterly art move.)
Works on show do exactly what they say on the tin, depicting subjects such as Zurich (Strange Weather), Piano Player and Beans for Breakfast. “They are a masterful expression of a dynamic imagination,” the gallery stresses. Some of Dylan’s drawings have been reworked as blue, red and neutral monochromatic studies, drawing on Picasso’s early Blue Period (1901-04), adds the gallery. Pablo and Bob—peas in a pod.