Apollo 11 Launch
Observers at the Kennedy Space Centre launch of Apollo II, which carried three astronauts to the moon in 1969
This graphic, pop-art series of paintings was started around the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing in 1969. This series of paintings, which shifts between stylised flat colours and semi-realism, is inspired by photographs taken of the dignitaries watching the launch. The event itself is not shown, but instead, the immediate witnesses, gazing upward - people dressed in their best, in the styles of the day. They arrived ready for the moment and were the real holders of the truth.
