Dylan says When I Paint My Masterpiece

BOB DYLAN has revealed a new string to his artistic bow. He has opened his first exhibition of paintings and drawings.

His song When I Paint My Masterpiece perhaps unfairly increases expectations. Dylan sketches what he sees and so there are rather a lot of hotel bedrooms from what he calls his “never-ending tour” of rock concerts, as well as views from bridges and railway lines and glances of half-seen passers-by.

One of the highlights is a painting of a curvaceous woman viewed by Dylan from behind while he was drinking in the Red Lion pub in Blackpool in 1992.

The exhibition, entitled The Drawn Blank Series, features 170 watercolours and pastel drawings and will run until February at a museum in Chemnitz, in eastern Germany.