He’s won a Pulitzer Prize for his songwriting and is one of the figureheads of modern music. Now US singer/songwriter Bob Dylan is displaying another talent – painting, with a new exhibition of work opening in London’s Halcyon Gallery.
It’s the first time the 68-year-old “Like A Rolling Stone” singer has shown paintings specifically created on canvas, artworks which are based on sketches done while touring throughout 1989 to 1992. Each of the “Bob Dylan On Canvas” works are for sale… that is, if you can afford them, the paintings selling between AUS$170,000 to $803,000.
In typical Dylan form, the icon kept the description of his work to a minimum when asked to describe his latest offerings. “I just draw what’s interesting to me, and then I paint it,” he commented.  “I’m not trying to make social comment or fulfil somebody’s vision and I can find subject matter anywhere. I guess in some way that comes out of the folk world that I came up in.”
Dylan’s most recent album was Christmas In The Heart, on which he covered many Christmas classics.