David Bowie - a Rock Legend

Welcome to the wonderful world of Welsh artist Julia O'Sullivan of Jupigio-Artwork and creator of the Great Welsh Dragon.

The book - 'The metamorphic life of Davy Jones' - The life and music of David Bowie will be available soon.

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The life and music of David Bowie painting

The is a painting on the life and music of David Bowie.

The first canvas was to be the pre-Ziggy era. This canvas portrays a heady giddy time, late 60's feel, a time of great creativity, and a fond era in the artist's life. The window's of Hidden Hall reflect his years as Davy Jones, then we embark on the road to David Bowie. I am in the process of re-writing the book on all the hidden elements of this piece. I will update this site when it come to fruition. As a Bowie fan there are very exciting elements in this painting, and even to this day if thrills me to look at it.

The second canvas would be the persona years of Bowie's life - Ziggy, Aladin Sane and the Thin White Duke. It was a time where he rocketed to stardom. From the spiders from Mars to the coffee shop in Berlin, this was a time of great experimentation and an explosion of creative talent.

The third canvas is his post alter ego years. He ventured into the acting world and who could forget him in Labyrinth! It still haunts me to this day - those pants!

I have no idea whether he would have like this piece of not, but how I loved putting it together, he was one talented individual and rightly deserves the accolade he still gets.

Each canvas effortlessly flows into the next as each stage of the Bowie's life unfolds.

Art for Sale, Welsh Artist Julia's painting of David Bowie and Andy Warhol at Haddon Hall, along with the creature in the tree one of Bowie's lyrics.

​The following are some of the elements included in the painting, there are many more and can be found in the book.

In the little windows we can see David in his pre Bowie years. Things that happened in his earlier years are depicted here.

There are references to his outrageous outfits and his musical lyrics.

Major Tom appears inside the metal Telescope. This points directly towards the planet Earth on the second canvas and is in direct correlation to the Space Oddity lyrics 'Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do'.

This completes the first canvas and the spider is the bridge to the next.

Welsh Artist Julia's Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Painting of the Life and Music of David Bowie, Major Tom is in the telescope direct towards Earth. Halloween Jack plays in New York

The second canvas is all about David's character creations.

Starting with Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

The band members as the actual spiders with their instruments. The metal spider represents David, it has ball bearings for eyes and one is larger than the other.

The story of the Ziggy's character is a tale of a Starman and how the infinites jump from black hole to black hole. Here,  inspired by the unique make up  of his pupils (one is fixed in dilation due to an accident in his youth).The two black holes reflect their composition. At the end of Ziggy's life the infinites rip him to pieces and so we see this  at the end of the yellow brick road.

Welsh Artist Julia's Painting of The Life and music of David Bowie, here is The Tin Machine, the Glass Spider and the little drummer boy.

We now move to the last canvas. This moves past David's facades.

At this time we have allusions to his film and acting career as well as his music.

The clown is dragging a bath with the elephant man in it down the stairs. In the bath are a few phallic images:  When David played the elephant man on stage, in one of the scenes he was naked in a bath. The stage crew (wanting to have fun with David) used to fill the bath with pornography and paraphernalia. 

The many stairs relate towards the film 'Labyrinth' as does the image of Bowie later on, appearing to hold the moon in his hand. For most of my generation we all remember him as the Goblin king.

Welsh Artist Julia's Painting depicting the Life and Music of David Bowie, Earthling is represented here with references to his son and daughter.

Updated book coming soon : The Metamophic life of Davy Jones. The book that explains the surreal David Bowie painting. Complete with up close photos and sketches. Follow the journey I take into making one of my paintings.