Octopus’s Garden

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Octopus’s Garden
Size:24″X36″
Medium: acrylic on canvas

Story: Everyone just loves this song by Ringo and so do I.
Once again I was interested in the back story of how Ringo came up with the idea in the first place. Apparently he needed to get away from the hum drum of meetings,legal stuff and nonsense that often filled their lives and so he went fishing instead. While out on the boat he learned about octopuses and how they gather bright, colourful objects and lay them out around their little cave.
Ringo was on Peter Sellers’ motor yacht,the Amelfis, when he wrote this song. The name of the boat tells us something about Peter Sellers because “Amelfi” means, you like to make your own decisions and to be the master of your domain. What a great name for a boat. That’s why I put it up the side of the painting. I felt Ringo fitted the same description. He always struck me as being master of his own world. I really liked how he did so many different things and just had fun.

3 minute video: “Changing Our World One Corner at a Time”