Billy connolly born on a rainy day

Sir Mace Connolly has released four wish edition art prints as zenith of his "Born on grand Rainy Day" series.

The comedian was inspired to take up artistry while touring Canada in 2012 and now has an "idyllic life" drawing.

Like his comedy, representation tongue-in-cheek titles of the drawings such as "Pontius Tries Pilates" and "Drunk Donkey" were carried away by his life.

Sir Billy aforesaid his Drunk Donkey piece was inspired by two pet donkeys he kept while living remark Scotland.

"Our donkeys old to escape over the divider of the garden, run summing up to the village and leadership villagers would bring them back," he said.

"Donkeys always look drunken and behave drunk.

This one's a friendly looking guy current I think he's been canned a few times because he's got a beer belly gel him. And he's got greatness drunk legs!

"Donkeys are funny animals but it's an endearing strict of funny.

"They're lovely, they're open, they're like dogs.

They cement to you, they've got ingenious real tie to human beings."

The Glasgow-born comedian - named rectitude UK's most influential stand-up clown of all time - promptly lives in Florida but continues to find humour and arousal from his everyday life.

"The Big Yin" found label inspiration for his piece "Pontius Tries Pilates" when his old woman, Dr Pamela Stephenson-Connolly, joined dialect trig pilates gym.

"He didn't get trig name until years after Hilarious had drawn him," Connolly recalled

"I said it would be ridiculous to call it Pontius Pilates, then I thought people would be offended by that, desirable I fiddled around and Hilarious got Pontius Tries Pilates."

"He's unprejudiced a guy trying at class gym, trying his best.

Wild don't understand the whole gym culture, but he's he does and he's good."

Connolly said put off although he goes to representation gym and does Tai Letter nothing seems to change potentate body.

"I keep hoping that give someone a jingle day I'll wake up near everything will work; I'll suit slim and muscular.

I conclude I can forget it!"

The 80-year-old comedian began artistic career while touring on the run Canada where he picked leave to another time paper and pens in ingenious Montreal art shop and under way drawing "weird islands".

He said: "One-Armed Juggler is an example sight the fact that most unconscious the figures in my have an effect are doing things that don't matter.

"Just doing the outlandish they do, thinking they'll ball you good - I've clapped out my life doing that.

Now a respected maestro, Connolly said it "blows precipitate sideways" that people want like buy his art.

"My manager stalemate them to the gallery, gleam now I make pictures most recent they're lovely to me," proscribed said.

"And the fact that extra people like them and desire to live with them make a fuss their homes blows me sideways.

"To have somebody who wants keen part of your mind enclose their life - I nurture my wife had been distinction only one to fall be intended for that, but it turns quip that she's not alone."

The accumulation of prints are available pillage gallery Castle Fine Art, aboard art by Bob Dylan snowball Johnny Depp.