As a fine art retailer, our passion lies not only in sharing the works of our artists, but also the incredible stories behind them. The new release from our Richard Hambleton collection is taken from his Horse and Rider series, and the original artwork remained in the personal collection of 'the grandfather of street art' for several years before he sold it to a restaurant in Tribeca, New York, in exchange for food.

Originally created in 1985, during the peak of Hambleton's career, the haunting rodeo scene is iconic both because of its role in the tragic downfall of 'Shadowman', and the specialist techniques that have been used to help preserve the traditional silkscreen printing process. Our creative director, Glyn Washington, was personally involved in the creation of the limited edition print, choosing from a selection of canvasses to find the one that most closely mirrored the cotton weave of Hambleton's original painting. Each handmade silkscreen was created by delicately pushing inks through layers of mesh screen, and then proofed by our highly-skilled atelier team to ensure authentic saturation, definition and texture.  

Capturing the frenetic movement of the original work in seven coloured inks, the collectible large-scale print symbolises the lasting legacy of the Canadian-American graffiti artist, who once outsold Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. The contemporary fusion of street art and fine art is faithful to the principles of the artist, who was just as comfortable brandishing his paintings in the filthy subways of New York as at the Venice Biennale. As each silkscreen is finished by hand, every print is inherently unique.