Chris Bracey

A unique neon art piece "Lucky" by legendary neon artist Chris Bracey with a gold painted metal horseshoe with painted stars and pink bulbs with neon "Lucky" across the base. A one off unique piece from 2010 Chris Bracey, was known as the Neon Man, sometimes as the Master of Glow. In his famous Walthamstow workshop, “God’s Own Junkyard” he made and displayed his fantastic signs that combined amazing skill with great design and a great sense of humour. In the early 70s, he went to work for the family firm, Electro Signs. Among his more memorable creations was his first, the long-lived “Girls, Girls, Girls” sign outside Paul Raymond’s world famous Soho Revue bar. Following a chance meeting in the 80s with the art director of the film Mona Lisa in Soho, where Bracey was putting up a sex shop sign at the time. he began to make neon props for movie sets. His work can be seen in films as diverse as Batman, Blade Runner and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The Rainbow Fancy Dress and Sonata Jazz Café signs in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut...

An orignal Chris Bracey neon art sculpture of Jesus "I'll Be Back", with fibreglass statue in faded colour resembling an old church icon, but with neon red guns, yellow neon halo and red neon title on the base "I'LL BE BACK" Originally commissioned directly from the the artist in 2010. Chris Bracey, was known as the Neon Man, sometimes as the Master of Glow. In his famous Walthamstow workshop, “God’s Own Junkyard” he made and displayed his fantastic signs that combined amazing skill with great design and a great sense of humour. In the early 70s, he went to work for the family firm, Electro Signs. Among his more memorable creations was his first, the long-lived “Girls, Girls, Girls” sign outside Paul Raymond’s world famous Soho Revue bar. Following a chance meeting in the 80s with the art director of the film Mona Lisa in Soho, where Bracey was putting up a sex shop sign at the time. he began to make neon props for movie sets. His work can be seen in films as diverse as Batman, Blade Runner and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The Rainbow Fancy Dress and Sonata Jazz Café signs in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut...