Elmo Hood (b. 1989)

Tears of a Clown 

Playing card collage on canvas board, 2021

Unique 1/1

Signed, titled and dated in marker, recto.

Presented on a hand-made hand-finished spiral design custom frame.

Artwork dimensions:  10 x 8 in.  Frame dimensions:  13.5 x 11.5 x 1 in.

Elmo Hood (born Elliot Nicholas Hood) is a British contemporary artist. He works in abstraction, pop art and collage.

Self-taught, Hood used painting as a coping mechanism for grief following a family bereavement in 2011, something he has spoken about in media interviews.  He rose to public prominence in 2013, when a collage of two playing cards The Queen of Hearts went viral.

Hood's has exhibited artwork in the galleries in London, Paris, New York, Ibiza and Munich as well as having his work auctioned off at the Houses of Parliament.  In 2013 he was commissioned to paint a series of murals for the Teenage Cancer Trust at Southampton General Hospital.