I am just in awe of this mans work - fine detailed pen and ink drawing is a time consuming art - taking days if not weeks to produce a single composition, yet Finlay managed to produce over 2300 designs in a 35 year career, working 7 days a week to produce enough artwork to cover the pulp-fiction rates. Ironically and perhaps warningly his work shot up in price once he passed on.. great. At least he has left a legacy.
What I respect about this artist was his stubborn refusal to sacrifice quality for speed - something that this digital era seems to have introduced into the arts. As dear old Brooks writes to his inmates in the film Shawshank Redemption; 'The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.' Too right old man, too right.
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