Here is Volume 2 of Funny Brummie Pictures by Robert
Geoghegan about his home city of Birmingham where he has
lived all his life. His paintings, often captioned, are full of the
detail and colour of modern urban life with a comic twist.
There’s something here for everyone – from punks on a night
service bus to squirrels taking part in ‘Parkrun’. There are football
pictures about Blues, Villa and West Brom and, of course, more
Birmingham bus pictures with zoo animals, the Beach Boys, dogs,
bears, Jim Morrison and Hattie Jacques all aboard. The Peaky Blinders
are included again, this time on a ‘Team Building Day Out at
Birmingham Sea Life Centre’ and Tommy and Arthur riding e-scooters.
Landmark buildings are here – Highbury Hall with a Rebecca twist,
Cadbury’s factory where they’re making dark chocolate on the
nightshift, Sarehole Mill where a school party are causing ‘Trouble at
Mill’, to name but a few. Pubs and chippies also feature, with a
customer complaining of soggy chips outside Kings Heath’s Hi Tide.
The Loch Ness monster, Gandalf, the Owl and the Clocktower and the
Brothers Grimm all make an appearance. Munch’s The Scream appears
on ‘The Ramp’ and Van Gogh paints Starry Night over Birmingham’s
city centre skyline. There are also
pictures of the ‘Mechanical Bull’ in
Centenary Square during Birmingham
Commonwealth Games.