Pete Doherty has racked up a $2600 bill with a British taxi company and plans to pay it off by splitting the profits he gets from one of his blood paintings. Chartattack reports that Doherty is selling 45 signed copies of his painting entitled “Glastonbury,” which was made back in 2006 and famously used as part of his defense against claims he was injecting an unconscious girl with heroin.
Painting with his own blood has become a trademark of Doherty’s visual art; his blood has been used on most of his paintings and was even added to Alize Meurisse’s painting for the cover of Doherty’s forthcoming album Grace/Wastelands.
Meurisse spoke to NME recently about collaborating with Doherty: “I’ll just be drawing some of the trinkets lying around or ideas I get while spending time with him and give him the drawings which he then add his bit too – adding lyrics, blood etc,” she said.
To view Doherty’s “Glastonbury,” click here, and to view the cover of Grace/Wastelands, click here.