Elmo Hood (b. 1989)

Royal Flush / Ghost

From the 13 Ghosts! series, 2022

Unique 1/1

Hand-cut and torn playing cards on wood canvas with acrylic paint and ink sealed with wax.

Signed, titled and dated in mark, recto.

Presented on a rough-hewn, black stained tray frame with warm gold gilded face.

Artwork dimensions:  12 x 9 x 1.25 in.  Frame dimensions:  13.625 x 10.5 x 1.625 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.