Over the last week I have created a selection of new pieces to coincide with the UK General election and for the great project BillBored.org. They have been projecting statement art pieces onto lots of places around london by night including; Tate Modern, Saatchi & Saatchi, City Hall, The Gherkin and last night PARLIAMENT.

My latest piece about the Hung Parliament and the power Clegg holds as third place candidate was loved by BillBored who wanted to end the project with a bang - so they set out on a dark Sunday evening to project this onto the hottest spot in London.

Images courtesy of cakehead

For all those that have been following my Twitter you will have seen some of my updates and pictures of Frank as he progressed from original blank white elephant to his finished glory. Over the three weeks that I spent in the Elephant & Castle Shopping centre painting, spraying and sticking stuff to him I kept a photo/video diary which you can view in it’s entirety below - it’s 7minutes long so stick with it but 3 weeks is a long time to fit into a tiny video:

After 3 weeks of intense painting I am very pleased to announce that my elephant - Frank, which I have been painting for the Elephant Parade London is now finished. He will be hitting the streets of the capital in early May.

I have just found out that my art will be appearing on an elephant in this summers London Elephant Parade. I will be painting the 2m x 1.5m elephant over the next months and will keep you up to date with regular posts on how things are going - should be great fun.

Billed as the capitals largest public art exhibition, Elephant Parade will embrace all that is excellent about London and will highlight every green initiative of the capital’s top businesses.  Decorated by a different artist or celebrity, the brightly painted elephants will help to create a bright new atmosphere in London and beautify each city park, street corner and building they grace. The event has already won the backing of Boris Johnson and the Greater London Authority, prominent artists and well known personalities such as The Duchess of York, Stephen Fry, Joanna Lumley and Michael Palin.

I am very pleased to announce that my art is being featured at ‘Vivienne Westwood’s Active - Resistance to Propaganda’ event at the Bloomsbury Ballrooms, Friday 4th December ‘09. Tickets have already sold out but I will try and keep you up to date as the evening progresses - will be a very interesting evening.

Lovable Boris Johnson with his astute intellect and bumbling persona is seen by many as a friendly and approachable character. A complete contrast to the more serious Ken Livingstone but is BoJo really the face and personality to represent London on the world stage, or does he turn London into a circus in the eyes of many.

A selection of images from Leinz recent exhibition at W11, Notting Hill. Thanks to all those that attended it was great to hear what you thought. More images of the artwork on display will be available shortly.

It’s been a while in the planning but I am excited to announce that my first solo exhibition will take place in London’s West-Eleven Gallery between 6th October - 12th October 2009.

The exhibition will showcase some of my iconic artworks and new, previously unseen pieces. If you fancy popping in and saying hello the gallery will be open daily from 10am - 7pm.

West-Eleven Gallery
5 Blenheim Crescent
Notting Hill
London
W11 2EE

After the walk from Vauxhall tube I was hoping for a lot from the Altermodern exhibition at the Tate Britain, but was left a little underwhelmed by it all - except for a few artists work. But the work that really grabbed my attention was by the German artist Franz Ackermann. His work really took me on a journey of colour and movement, and made a grey and until then pretty quite London day jump around singing in excitement and fun – definitely worth a visit to see his work for yourself.

I am still completely amazed even today – 2 days after it happened. I was in a warm and friendly pub in the safe and familiar streets of Soho on Friday evening with a friend I haven’t seen in a while, deep in conversation and completely unaware of the hideous incident occurring under my own nose when some utterly despicable person stole my book from the table, my book, my copy of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - who in hell steals a book. What has society come to when someone steals a book from you?.

I feel I should report this to the police before some others fall foul to this menace!