Category: painting
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Christina’s World
It must be difficult for anyone born after the 60’s to imagine how important single images could be in forming imagination and memory for someone older.
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Daisy,Daisy
The oxeye daisy is like the English, a perennial survivor with an architectural beauty and determined toughness attractive to others
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End Game?
I have explored techniques like collage and photography but the media themselves have contributed to the failures there. So now I must go down to the studio again, for there my future waits.
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Looking into the light
I go down to the studio with my vision fractionally altered by a morning walk. Seaford’s clear air clarifies and intensifies colour, especially at sunrise. It’s part of an evolution as an artist and the challenge to keep disciplined
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Carafe Colour
Putting red wine in a second hand carafe raised the delight in the kitchen to a new level of pleasure
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A Conversation about Drawing
Drawing processes have changed over time. From cotton grids, camera obscura, photographs and now the computer artists have always used machines to aid accuracy – maybe even Turner
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Turner at the Towner
Without a large oil painting this exhibition seduces, draws in close and gentle, sucks you into the artist’s handiwork. These pieces are precious from Cotman, Girtin, Hind and others, portraying the entrance to docks, ships, storms and pieces of Sussex to strike recognition as well as seducing through the eye. They contrast neatly with the…
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That’s Life
Pleasures must be paid for, and politicians steal other people’s successes to build their own monuments. Many suffered as I did, but I also became an orphan and broke. My marriage broke, my father died, my design practice failed. But the human spirit in an artist is steel, we bend not break, survive and continue…
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Ravillious Revisited at the Towner
There has been a Ravillious room at Eastbourne’s Towner Gallery for quite a long time. Reworking now in a generous and long overdue space liberated by the addition of new galleries downstairs breathes new life into appreciating his short-lived genius.
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The Ponderwall
It started with the weather images. Today I take them with a sophisticated digital camera but I started them in pre-digital times as small gouache paintings done very quickly and very small from my back doorstep
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A Garden Start
The colour flows from the movement of hand and arm allied to brainwork developing the ideas the eye has created in the mind, The gesture with pain carries the unconscious and conscious vision
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Death of a Poppy
I see in my garden testaments of time passing. It is an interplay between a connoisseur’s knowledge of art, a photographer’s searching vision, my aesthetic values and a sense of mortality.
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