Wot! No Bike. Circa 2015. By Paul Simonon. Whilst critics at the time slated the famed bassist’s paintings as a “gauche biker attempt” to rediscover his working class roots, I thought it to be much more simple than that. The paintings are the visual result of Paul’s life long dream, who once said: “I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.” Paint what you know. There is beauty in simplicity. The finer strokes to life.