After spending the best part of week working on a document for my historical research it is nice to get back to some art work. As you may have noticed over the past few days I’ve watched the American House of Cards. I’m still not convinced its as good as it could be and having had time to reflect on why that might be I suspect that the series is too long or put it another way some of the episodes are padding. This was demonstrated to me when I missed by mistake episode 11 and it wasn’t until right at the end I realised my mistake. More pace please in series 2.

I’m also not at sure the new Mrs FU works as she has been written. The original Mrs FU was far more lady McBeth or Thatcher than the latest version. Perhaps she might turn more to the dark side during the next series.

Watching House of Cards inspired me to create a painting of Kevin Spacey as FU. However, having read this morning that an artist has made a painting of Spacey, this time as Richard 3rd (surely the best way to play FU), I’ve had to rethink what I want to create – so as not to be too much of a copy. Anyway, this is the first iteration of the painting.

Simon Marchini
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