So glad to have finished this commission of the @TynesideCinema . When I was asked to produce this painting my imagination was fired by not only the challenge in front of me but by my memories of youth. When I was at art college we would go for coffees in the Art Deco surroundings. I remember there was a large print of James Dean walking through the streets of New York in the rain. Those dark winter nights were magical and the world was there for the taking. Not forgetting se