Goldie to paint portraits of David Bowie for project
Black Country-born DJ and actor Goldie painting 12 portraits of David Bowie for a new project which will be unveiled to the public.
The 51-year-old recorded a track called Of Truth with Bowie for his 1998 album Saturnz Return.
He also said Bowie, who died in January last year, saved him from drugs by inspiring him with music.
Now Goldie, who was born in Walsall, has revealed he is painting 12 photographed portraits of Bowie.
He said: "It is something very close to my heart and I think David has the characters.
It would be great to do an art show based on all the different characters he had."
In an interview with the BBC, he also described how he was able to get Bowie to work with him on the 1998 album.
Looking at a picture of him, on wanting to record with him, he said: "[I thought] no way in God's green earth, maybe I could work with David Bowie you never know.
"Then low and behold I got a message from Pete Tong saying David loved the album and.... says he wants to work with you and that was my inroad.
"When he came to the studio to record, he's looking at the lines at the top, and it says 'tomorrow for you to know that sorrow hides in sculpture' and he said, 'that line there, where did you get it from?'
"He said did you know Michelangelo said that if you blow the dust away from the marble the sculpture already exists inside, and I went, 'I'll have that'.
"That's been my quote of life ever since."
Following Bowie's death from liver cancer last year, Goldie said the saying 'was affirmation at the peak of my drug use' and it gave him hope in music.
He added: "It was the only thing that was going to save me."
The pair first met at London’s Blue Note club, where Goldie’s label ran a regular night.
Goldie said: "He was just a beautiful soul, a brilliant, brilliant man and he always supported me. We stayed in touch and I love him dearly."
Goldie this year released his latest album, Journeyman.
It is the first album since Saturnz Return.
The star, known also as Clifford Joseph Price, spent much of his youth growing up in Wolverhampton’s Heath Town.
He spent time in children’s homes before finding fame as a graffiti artist and later musician.
