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Today was overcast and dry enough to photograph all the Heckel’s Horse Jr. oil on canvas paintings, minus the one I don’t have anymore, as I donated it to the Arms Around the Child auction at Christies.
Heckel’s Horse Jr. is an alias I use for these paintings, as they’re all based on Heckel’s Horse paintings. Heckel’s Horse is an alias Billy Childish and I paint under when making collaboration paintings together. It only occurred to me afterwards that I’m younger than Billy, so am the partnerships junior member, hence Heckel’s Horse Jr. A better reason to call myself Heckel’s Horse Jr. than the real one: because Dinosaur Jr. did it.
It was necessary to have these paintings all photographed by May, as it’s the deadline for having the poster ready for my forthcoming exhibition at Highgate Gallery (details below). These photos will also be used in a booklet I’ll be posting locally and in the wider London area, as well as posters, flyers and whatever other physical promotinal formats are available within my budget.
An old self-promoters tip for making multi-page pdf booklets with free software is to use Google Slides, setting the background to the image, then export the slideshow as a pdf. Once I’ve collated all the data, a Heckel’s Horse Jr. pdf will be available on this site.
Below are all 44 of the Heckel’s Horse Jr. oil on canvas paintings. All are untitled. Some are signed on the front. The one’s not signed on the front will be signed on the back. I switch between signing on the front or back, depending on whether or not I think it looks good. Recently I’ve been feeling more settled than ever, that signing on the front is detrimental to my paintings. I’ll be surprised if I change my mind on this again. I’m quoted in a Stuckism book Stuck Near Tate Modern Shelley Li and I wrote around 2009, that the reason I don’t sign my paintings is the same reason singers don’t shout their name at the end of a song. I’m back, firmer than ever, to this opinion. The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists are always right.
March 2024:
My next exhibition:
Exhibition Title: Heckel’s Horse Jr.
Venue: Highgate Gallery at Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution
11 South Grove
London N6 6BS
Private View:
8th March 2024, 6 – 8.30pm
Exhibition runs until
21st March 2024
Heckel’s Horse Jr. is not to be confused with Heckel’s Horse.
Heckel’s Horse Jr. is an alias used by Edgeworth Johnstone. Under this alias, Johnstone paints works based on Heckel’s Horse paintings in his home studio in Muswell Hill, London.
Heckel’s Horse is a painting collaboration between Billy Childish and Edgeworth Johnstone. Since 2013, Childish and Johnstone have made roughly 200 paintings together, at Childish’s studio in Chatham Dockyard.
Edgeworth Johnstone is Heckel's Horse Jr. 
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