John Illsley (b.1949)

John Illsley (b.1949)

Still Life with Two Oranges

Signed verso

Oil on canvas

60 x 60cm

Horatio's Garden will receive 100% of the hammer price on this lot.

Since Dire Straits stopped working together in 1993, John has pursued his other passion of painting.

What followed were six solo exhibitions in London, and solo exhibitions in New York, Sydney, Dublin and France, over the last 25 years. "Painting is a kind of dance between reality and unreality, figuration and abstraction, where all this ambiguity leads us, I have no idea only that it challenges painters to produce something that not only means something to himself but hopefully to someone else".

"I know from personal experience about the trauma and life changing effect that spinal injuries can cause when 15 years ago the son of one of my oldest friends was left paralysed from the neck down after a bicycle accident. Horatio's Gardens enable patients with spinal injuries to get out in the open air in a beautiful environment either alone or with their friends and families which must be both uplifting and transformative. I am very happy to be able to help in some way with a painting for the upcoming Art auction."