Break The Rules- Lead Balloon

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Break The Rules- Lead Balloon, Acrylic on Canvas 65 x 90cm
Make the impossible possible with this bold and brave painting. This daring Lead Balloon defies and breaks all conventions. Break the Rules with this Lead defying hot air balloon. It went down like a lead balloon well not this one, dare to be different and break the impossible chains. ‘When pigs fly!’, well this Lead Balloon can, this lead balloon not only floats it soars the skies. Element 82 Pb LEAD is on the Periodic Table, Atomic Number 82, this is the purple colour of Lead on the Periodic Table. Plumbum is the material Lead that was once used for water works by the Ancient Romans. The Romans also used lead for the many coins that circulated throughout The Roman Empire.
It went down like a Lead Balloon is also in tribute to Led Zeppelin, the symbol of the Angel of Icarus also defies to Break the Rules, Icarus was the one who flew too close to the sun, the hot sunshine soon melted away his feathers held together with wax.

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Colm Hughes of Celtic Icons

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Who is the artist?
Colm Hughes is an Irish artist of
celtic artwork, painter & designer.
"I am an artist of life! As an artist I am constantly inspired by the world around me, everything from the natural world to the build environment to all things in popular culture. These all continue to give me nuggets of creativity. I take deep inspiration from my Celtic heritage and roots which I try to reproduce continually in my artwork.
Colm is originally from a technical background: technical drawing & construction producing many detailed architectural drawings by hand and mostly with Computer Aided Design (Auto CAD) over the years.
Colm has always had a creative artistic touch, throughout his child hood talking inspiration from Celtic Legends to Early Christian Art to the comic books of Marvel, DC Comics & 2000AD to the very influential Art Deco, Mucca, the Renaissance artist of Michaelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Steam Punk & Japanese culture.
"We came up with the idea of Celtic Icons to create beautiful Celtic art that captured the spirit of Ireland and that embodied all of the Celtic nations." Colm Hughes
Jim Fitzpatrick has always been an inspirational Irish artist for me. His outstanding works always speak for themselves. To Leonardo Da Vinci,
Famous artists to the fashion movement of Art Deco and Art Novaic.... especially the Mucca style of art.

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