Today’s Proost advent post is not a video, but an original piece of art by the wonderful Si Smith – a long time contributor and friend to Proost.

We asked him to say something about the work- although artists often prefer their art to speak for itself! In this instance, this is what he said;

….it was made in 2014 (I think) for one of Gav Mart’s Engedi shows in Llandudno, and it was probably the first digital painting that I’d done full colour (everything pre that had been basically greyscale – 40, Raised in Leeds, Advent 25 etc)

So it’s interesting to get it out and look at it again – at the time it felt like a Great Leap Forward for my practice, looking back at it it feels quite clumsy and awkward. That said, I still really like it.

The block of flats in it is down the end of our road – there are a few of these buildings, all constructed to the same plan and when we first moved here I got bit obsessed with them.

So the Virgin Mary of this artwork lives in this one, and Mary Magdalene in Raised in Leeds lives in the block just down the road…

Here is the picture. Spend some time with it!