Scottish comic Sir Billy Connolly unveils 4 new drawings on the market

Sir Billy Connolly has unveiled 4 new artworks on the market.

The much-loved Scottish comic, 80, has been a eager artist since 2012, and has unveiled the brand new drawings by way of the Castle Fine Art gallery.

The items have been launched by way of his Born on a Rainy Day artwork collection and are being bought for £1,250 every – although they are often purchased as a set for £4,500 framed or £3,300 unframed.

The items are named Pontius Tries Pilates, One Armed Juggler, Nightmare and Drunk Donkey.

“The Big Yin” stated he at all times wished to offer Pontius Pilate a “keep-fit name”, including the thought got here to him when his spouse joined a pilates gymnasium.

He added: “I said it would be funny to call it Pontius Pilates, then I thought people would be offended by that, so I fiddled around and I got Pontius Tries Pilates.

“He’s only a man making an attempt on the gymnasium, making an attempt his greatest. I do not perceive the entire gymnasium tradition, however he does and he is good.”

On his One Armed Juggler drawing, Sir Billy stated: “He’s an example of the fact that most of the figures in my work are doing things that don’t matter. Just doing the things they do, thinking they’ll do you good – I’ve spent my life doing that.”

He added: “You see guys of their 60s out working within the night and also you suppose: ‘Get a chair. Get a chair and a bottle of beer and swap on the telly; who’re you kidding?’.

“But all my guys are doing that, they’re trying to be part of it wherever ‘it’ is.”

The Nightmare piece is impressed by Sir Billy’s personal dangerous goals, which he says he by no means actually remembers upon waking up.

He stated: “But I’m famous for shouting in the night and singing and laughing; my daughter has seen me; I’ve never remembered it.

“And I used to be directing a play in my sleep. I used to be speaking to the actors after which I might change into the actors, singing songs.”

His Drunk Donkey piece hearkens back to his earlier days when he lived in Scotland.

He owned two donkeys who he says he would let “wander concerning the place consuming grass”.

The comic says the animals are “lovely” and “friendly”, evaluating them to canines.

He added: “They cling to you, they’ve got a real tie to human beings. Donkeys are funny animals but it’s an endearing kind of funny.

“Our donkeys used to flee over the wall of the backyard, run all the way down to the village and the villagers would convey them again.

“Donkeys always look drunk and behave drunk. This one’s a friendly looking guy and I think he’s been drunk a few times because he’s got a beer belly on him. And he’s got the drunk legs.”

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Sir Billy was first impressed to begin drawing whereas on tour in Canada.

He stated: “I’d never drawn in my life until this point, but I just started drawing weird islands and carried on drawing.

“I requested my spouse to inform me in the event that they had been getting higher and she or he stated ‘positively’.

“My manager sent them to the gallery, and now I make pictures and they’re lovely to me.

“And the truth that different folks like them and need to stay with them of their properties blows me sideways.

“To have somebody who wants a part of your mind in their life – I thought my wife had been the only one to fall for that, but it turns out that she’s not alone.”