Tag Archives: Christian Martin

BRISTOLIAN GALLERY: ‘VLAD DRACUL’

‘Vlad Dracul’

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Councillor Simon Cook, pencil & watercolours, 2013, @guriben

Here’s @guriben’s eerie take on actor Simon Cook, who in his spare time is the yin to Christian Martin’s yang as a Lib Dem councillor for Clifton East, as well as mismanaging the leisure, tourism, licensing and community safety portfolio within Mayor George Ferguson’s Cabinet. Just in time for Hallowe’en!

If Bristol City Council doesn’t snap him up soon as its official artist, then he will likely be snapped up by South Gloucestershire, BANES or – worst of all – North Somerset…

BRISTOLIAN GALLERY: ‘CHRISTIAN OR WHATEVER’

‘Christian Or Whatever’

Councillor Christian Martin, watercolour, 2013, Guriben

Councillor Christian Martin, watercolour, 2013, Guriben

That @guriben is shaping up to be practically artist-in-residence for The BRISTOLIAN – here’s his take on the Lib Dems’ Clifton East councillor, Chris ‘Not That One’ Martin.

As the paint-thrower himself noted:

what was this gel-haired twats name again?