Author: lemakoo
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LeMakoo Update
Dear Client Lot’s of art for you today, it’s a busy period. First off is a Valletta, a commission. 120x60cm oil on box canvas. The client chose all the colours in this one. Then I have some flowers. Oil on box canvas 51x61cm. And a classic LeMakoo Valletta. 30x50cm Oil on canvas. I’ve always wanted…
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St Paul’s Bay Painting
Dear Client I hope you’re well. Here’s my latest commission, St Paul’s Bay, oil on box canvas, 1.2x.8 metres. The client was delighted. They saw a previous St Paul’s Bay painting on www.Lemakoo.com and wanted a bigger version with more orange. Then I seemed to get into a tree painting 61×50 cm oil on box…
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Ghajn Znuber Tower Paintings
I was delighted to see this news story this morning in The Times of malta about the restoration of Ghajn Znuber Tower Luckily I was able to paint this tower before the restoration and I’ve also found an email to clients that I sent last year in 2011 about it. http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120501/local/restoration-at-last-for-crumbling-tower.417877 Here’s one of my…
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Latest Maltese Landscape
Dear Client I’m pleased to introduce Senglea, a new 80x40cm oil painting. On other news, LeMakoo is participating in The Inspire works of art exhibition for charity. The Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry, on Republic Street, Valletta between Friday 4th and Monday 21st May 9am to 7pm on weekdays and 9am to 2pm…
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Flower paintings
Dear Client Welcome to Spring, it’s flowers time. First off is a commission I undertook, very large, she’s painted on 3 canvases, each measuring 1.2 x .5 metres Certainly destined to cheer a room up, it’s hard to emphasize the 3d quality of this work in a photograph as the paint on the flowers is…
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Nobody in contemporary art museums care about yo yo’s.
A small holiday turned into an art feast in London last weekend as LeMakoo decided to visit the Tate the National and Saatchi Galleries. The newspapers were full of the Damien Hurst retrospective to be opened at the Tate, however, our first museum visit was to the National History Museum which was coincidently full of…
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Venice and Valletta
Dear Client Finally after many delays I have produced a painting of Venice. It’s the view of the church of San Giorgio Maggiore from Piazza San Marco. One of those classic views in Venice from it’s most famous square. I was shocked when I purchased an expresso there for only 90 cents, until I realised…
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Introducing Senglea, oil on canvas
Dear Client I hope you’re well. I’d like to introduce LeMakoo’s latest work Senglea. She’s 60x60cm, Oil on canvas and has just been finished this morning. I’ve had so many requests for a LeMakoo Senglea and I’m happy I finally got around to doing it. She was a lot of hard work. Just getting the…
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Introducing LeMakoo Miniatures
Dear Client Just before Christmas I had a lot of calls for paintings in the 1-2 hundred price range, for gifts etc. Of which I had none so I’ve decided to fill that gap with a new section called LeMakoo Miniatures. In true LeMakoo style these are not tiny (I like to work big) they…
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www.lemakoo.com
Lemakoo’s art is fast, not in technique but in Look. It is modern as it portrays how we see the world today, be it from the back of a car or the window of an aircraft. Swiftly moving skies and quickly moving water views of Malta, as if painted from a speedboat. Skies resonate with…