Outside his music, he is most famous for his portraits of his grizzled bandmates.
But on this occasion, Ronnie Wood’s muse couldn’t have been more different from a veteran rocker.
The Rolling Stones guitarist has produced a delicate full-frontal nude painting of a women believed to be his young wife.
Who's that girl? Ronnie Wood has produced a
delicate full-frontal nude painting of a women believed to be his young
wife Sally Humphreys
The
work of art, simply titled Sally, bears a striking resemblance to
36-year-old theatre director Sally Humphreys, whom he wed in December
2012.
The dark-hair women is shown posing seductively on her knees and lifting her arms above her head.
The
painting comes with a £200,000 price tag and is on display at the
Castle Fine Art gallery in London’s Mayfair, where Wood is
artist-in-residence.
Happy couple: The Rolling Stones rocker tied the knot with the striking brunette back in December 2012
The
66-year-old musician trained as an artist before joining the Rolling
Stones in 1975, when he replaced guitarist Mick Taylor in the band.
He studied at Ealing College of Art in London and when he was 14, his music teacher paid him £4 for a snow scene.
He
has since received widespread critical acclaim for his paintings, which
mostly include images of Sir Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie
Watts. He has previously revealed how he listens to Mozart while working
at his easel.
Wood
said: ‘When I get inspired, I get almost possessed and I just have to
paint. There is no kind of therapy like the one you have from starting
and seeing a picture through to the end.’
What a tribute: The painting in question is
titled merely 'Sally' and is on display at the Castle Fine Art gallery
in London¿s Mayfair - with a hefty price tag of £200,000
‘I
get the musical mode when I’m on tour - I might do a few sketches - but
I’m mainly concentrating on the music. Then when the tour’s over I can
relax and I then find myself getting the brush out. Music and art is
very relaxing to me.’
Prices
for Wood’s artwork range from around £1,500 for a signed limited
edition print up to around £300,000, which the star charged for a recent
portrait of the Rolling Stones.
It
was in 2008 that Wood painted a female nude who was believed to be
19-yearold Kazakhstan-born cocktail waitress Ekaterina Ivanova with whom
he had an affair while he was married to his ex-wife Jo.
He
sold the picture for £8,000 in Gallery Number One in Dublin - 20 miles
from the house in County Kildare to which Wood fled with the teenager.
