After an unbelievable response to his debut artwork assortment in 2024, legendary THIN LIZZY guitarist Scott Gorham is again with six brand-new unique prints, launching April 28, 2025.
The brand new assortment blends unseen items from the ’80s and ’90s with recent creations from the final three years, reflecting Scott‘s journey from life on the highway to private moments of inspiration.
New prints embody:
* Einstein’s Remorse (2024)
* Seed Of Life (1992)
* Candy Give up (2022)
* The Cage (2025)
* Unchartered Universe (2025)
* Virus (1984)
Gorham says: “I’ve been so touched by the help I’ve acquired since I launched my first artwork that it has impressed me to begin drawing once more. It made sense that once we got here to launch the subsequent batch of paintings we launch a mixture of this new paintings with older unreleased items. So, we have blended some photos from the ’80s and ’90s with some from the final three years. I hope you take pleasure in the brand new paintings as a lot as I loved creating it.”
Take a look at the complete assortment at www.scottgorhamworld.com.
When Scott was round fourteen years previous, at highschool in Glendale, California, he took a semester in artwork. It was his first and solely artwork lesson, and a great way to flee the typing course. “I might contact sort — sixty phrases a minute” he reveals. “However I solely received a B within the check as a result of I could not keep in mind all of the margins. However I knew I would by no means need to work in an workplace, so I figured I would strive artwork.”
Scott typically drew photos at house and was accepted after submitting a line portrait of his sister, Vicky. Nonetheless, he was daunted by the competitors. “All the children have been sat round this huge desk, and each time the trainer set us a venture, I’d go searching and assume, ‘God, these individuals are so a lot better than me,'” he says. “However then she would seize my drawing and go, ‘Look, class! Scott understands what I used to be speaking about.” I might see the opposite youngsters all taking a look at me, growling.”
The top of the semester marked the tip of Scott‘s artwork schooling. “I could not keep in mind a factor — possibly some perspective coaching, and a few stuff about shading, however I’ve all the time stated a very powerful instrument in drawing is the eraser.”
By then, Scott was taking part in guitar. “And the guitar all the time got here first,” he insists. Nonetheless, Scott secretly carried on drawing, whereas on the highway with THIN LIZZY and BLACK STAR RIDERS, and at house throughout downtime after a tour.
He simply did not inform his fellow musicians and even his spouse, Christine. Then Christine found a folder containing quite a few drawings, a few of which dated again to the early Eighties. These photographs have been impressed by Scott‘s life on the highway, getting sober, the state of the planet and even the time Phil Lynott took him to his first soccer match.
“However not one of the band, even Phil, noticed any of them,” he says. “I do surprise what Phil would have thought. However on tour, these drawings have been me taking myself away from the music for a number of hours.” Then, 4 years in the past, Scott posted a drawing referred to as “The Fan” on social media to commemorate what would have been Phil Lynott‘s birthday.
“This very private drawing drew hundreds of constructive responses with followers asking whether or not there have been different drawings and the place they may purchase it,” he explains. “It took an extra three years to influence me and conform to introduce a few of my assortment to the general public… I by no means anticipated to indicate them to anybody.”
