Welgemeend August Art Month - 2019

21 ROBERT HODGINS Your Friendly Garage Hand 1999 oil on canvas 90 x 120 cm Private Collection “Your Friendly Garage Hand seems none too friendly and satirically named. The texts in the painting shown as incomplete words, reveal the artist’s feelings about this character. Services is cut off to read as vices, and repairs cut off to read as pairs, in the phrases depicted as “pairs done here” and “vices day & night.” Combined with the image of what Hodgins would have called “a bruiser” leaves us in no doubt as to the nature of the fellow with a spanner in his hand!” Neil Dundas