Timing Mark 2016- 55 x 36" PRIVATE COLLECTION
Multi-media: Acrylic & graphics on paper and canvas

This piece exists because of a Forest Fire. Racing colleague Karl Landrus had commissioned me to do a Spark Plug. But a fire swept away his house and all inside. So I created another Spark Plug painting to replace it. But I liked it so much I wanted one for myself. So this one came about.

I had been looking at Robert Indiana's work, which often includes a fat circle, and stenciled words. So, a tip of the hat to him, and playing with what had become a very fat paint-can mark, as though it were a flywheel or the rotation of an engine. Any old school mechanic has seen the steel hammered with a chisel to mark the exact point where the engine should fire.

When a good friend got injured in a racing accident, I put this piece up for sale to try to help.