This weeks BLAST is another piece of Kieran Roberts’ great art – Jackie’s Green Hell.
Let’s hear from the artist himself about this piece, this is from his website:
Jackie Stewart on his way to victory in the Tyrrell 006 in 1973 at one of his least favourite tracks, the Nurburgring, which he nicknamed ‘the green hell’, so called for it’s exposed forests and fields around the track. Stewart led the crusade for safer tracks and better first aid facilities after suffering a horrific crash at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit. Stewart has many quotes about the Nurburgring Nordschleife, most of them less than complimentary. However, one of my personal favourites sums up the terror of driving flat out on ‘the green hell’ – “In a quick lap of the Nurburgring you probably experience more in seven minutes, and six or seven seconds, than most people have experienced in all their life, in the way of fear and tension, and animosity towards machinery and a racetrack”.
We will continue to feature more of Kieran’s work over the coming weeks, but you can head to his website www.kieranrobertsart.com to see more, or buy some of his brilliant work.
