David Kaye 'Cookie Monster' (Original)

Artist:  David KayeTitle: Cookie MonsterSize: 59.7 × 49.5 cm Medium: Acrylic on CanvasEdition:  Original  Year:  2022Notes: Signed, titled and dated on the reverse. Acquired from Sotheby’s.  About: Born in Bradford, England in 1986, The time when cartoons were at their best and going to play out in the morning and not coming home till the streetlamps came on was the norm. From an early age I was drawing the cartoons and putting my own little twist onto the things they were doing. Fast forward 10 years and I’m in the middle of Afghan with the British army, I found time to burn in between patrols so started drawing again. I practiced drawing objects that was in magazines that had been send out to us and mixed it with a cartoon aspect of the things I used to draw when I was a child.   When I left the forces, I found myself slightly lost and was told to turn to my creative side to help me. I started painting and this opened a new feeling of achievement and ambition. I took to the kitchen