Jinxy who is

He fired up the children's imagination by painting his own favourite landmark of Birmingham, the famous bull of the Bullring Shopping Centre. Paul Parkin, 58, got his nickname when he was just twelve-years-old because he was so accident-prone. He survived a fractured skull at one time, which prompted his friends to call him Jinxy after the cartoon cat shown on TV at the time. Expressing himself with coffee rather than oil or acrylics, Paul Parkin has a studio in Birmingham's Custard Factory.

He discovered the power of a well-brewed cup of coffee on a canvas by accident some two years ago. Since then his paintings have sold for thousands of pounds and he's won world-wide acclaim, including winning the London Coffee Festival Visitor Award for his "Coffee Ballerina" painting. I was invited to show my work at the London exhibition by its curator, Silvia Lioci. I sent my Coffee Ballerina, which has lots of details on the dress.

I got through to the last 10 from entries. I was really pleased. Despite the unusual medium he uses to create his artworks, Jinxy is not just a creator of novelty items. He is a serious artist who is always on the lookout for the next ambitious project. Parkin uses uses cold coffee of different strengths to create his unusual artworks. He's even been approached by an American coffee shop owner who would like to display Parkin's work, using the coffee shop's own specialist roasts.

I use all sorts of coffee — it dries differently on different materials, and that can help create different effects. September 28, Continue Reading. August 29, August 21, It just triggered the idea, so I put down my paint and picked up the coffee, and it worked.

Since then, Paul has continued to create an impressive collection of artwork. Paul said he hopes his work will inspire other local artists to open exhibitions, creating a new generation of Birmingham artists. Artist tells of Strange But True. Birmingham's Custard Factory. Paul, 52, who paints under the name of Jinxy, creates his artwork using nothing but coffee. He works on each piece "seven days a week".