POPEYE AND OLIVE

Popeye and Olive was born out of an exercise in meditation through painting that Richard McGuire undertook a few years ago. By tirelessly repeating shapes on paper, with no intention other than the gesture itself, the silhouette of Popeye emerged one day. From there, McGuire decided to use E. C. Segars character ad infinitum, while bringing him back to his essence (muscle, a pipe and a cap), and then to do the same with Olive Oyl.