Joe Le Taxi

Joe Le Taxi

Digital sketch on iPad — Limited Edition Print

Joe Le Taxi takes its title from the iconic Vanessa Paradis song — that impossibly cool, slightly dreamy slice of French pop that drifts into your head and refuses to leave. There’s something about it: the rhythm, the romance, the late-night neon atmosphere. This piece plays with that feeling, leaning into the hazy glamour of a city taxi ride, the blur of lights on wet streets, the sense that something interesting is happening just out of frame. The taxi sign glows like a stage light, the world beyond the windscreen slipping into abstraction.

It’s less about the driver and more about the mood — movement, mystery, and the soft promise of a story unfolding somewhere in the dark. A tiny, cinematic moment.

Joe Le Taxi is part of my ongoing series Sketchy Thoughts — a playful, growing body of work that parodies the kind of “art” we see for sale today. It’s a spontaneous visual diary of what I see around me. Created entirely on my iPad, these sketches appear wherever I happen to be — in the bath, on a plane, in the car, or on a beach somewhere — capturing thoughts before they slip away. Each piece begins with a passing emotion, a lyric, or a fleeting idea, turning quick impressions into lasting images.

Together, the works in Sketchy Thoughts explore the immediacy of perception and the humour woven through everyday life — quick, expressive, slightly irreverent, and always rooted in the moment.

Edition details:

• Limited edition of 195, individually numbered

• Size options:

  • Small print: image size 24cm x 24cm, finished mounted size 30cm x 30cm

  • Large print: image size 29.5cm x 29.5cm, finished mounted size 40cm x 40cm

  Both sizes are also available framed in black wood, ready to hang.