Peace March for Gaza, Whitehall 150cm x 120cm with street sketches
Work in progress
Words to paint by from Philip Guston 🎨 💪...
''I feel more as if I'm shaping something with my hands. I feel as if I've always wanted to get to that state. Like a blind man in a dark room had some clay, what would he make? I end up with 2 or 3 forms on a canvas, but it gets very physical for me. I always thought I am a very spiritual man, not interested in paint, and now I discover myself to be very physical and very involved with matter. I want to be involved with how heavy things are, a balloon, how light things are, things levitating, pushing forms, make me feel as if my hand is pushing in a head, bulges out here and pushes there."
"Actually, one of the real problems that always bothers me [in creating a painting] is sustaining a feeling. I mean, when I look at Poussin now, well, I think that's the most incredible thing to maintain the feeling for a year, however long it took Poussin, I'm telling you, to paint this vast structure. But perhaps that is not given to us now."
"When I see people painting quote 'abstract' art, I think it's just a dialogue, there is you painting and this canvas. I think there has to be a third thing,it has to be a trialogue. Whether that third thing - it must be, to reverberate and make trouble, you have to have trouble and contradictions, it has to become complex because life is complex, emotions are complex, - whether that third element is a still life of something, or an idea or a concept, in each case it has to be a trialogue and above all has to involve you....The real thing that matters is how involved you are in that"
#art #painting #protest #resistance #whitehall
Year 7 & 8 @charterschoolbermondsey compositions being drawn out on 70cm x 90cm canvases for our project about school life past and present. The last image is of retired teacher Joyce Trotman, who came in for a life drawing session and to tell us tales of the old Scott Lidgett school, formerly situated on the current Charter School Bermondsey site.
#Bermondsey #artistinresidence #artistinschools #art #socialdocumentary
SATs week may be upon us, but nothing stops Year 5 @boutcher_ce_primary artists. When the people need prints, we deliver 💪 🎨 and these limited edition A2 canvas and paper prints from our recent Southwark At Work project have been very much in demand.
Pictured here are prints of Jaro the Tower Bridge Bridgelift Driver @towerbridge by Olivia, Stacey @curve_pilates Borough High Street by Imelda, Bishop Of Southwark Christopher Chessun by Rose, Inclusive Energy Biogas Startup Bermondsey by Aamira, @boysskevin the Blacksmith Surrey Docks by Eleanor, and Brewing & Bottling @thekernelbrewery Bermondsey by Hazimah.
Further congratulations are due to Evangeline who has been invited to exhibit her painting of Guy's Hospital staff in this year's @royalacademyarts Young Artists' Summer exhibition in August, and to all the others in the art group who have been selected for the online RA exhibition.
We will be building on our Southwark At Work project in the autumn term as we venture out to sketch people at work in Southwark once again.
DM me if you run or work at a local business that you think might like to be involved as we create another collective exhibition of working life in Southwark. We will also be on the lookout for public venues to exhibit our series of paintings when they are all completed.
#art #artistinschools #boutcher #artresidency #primaryschoolart
@charterschoolbermondsey compositions from sketches of school life transferred onto large canvases this morning by year 7 & 8 pupils
#artistinschools #artistinresidence #schoollife #charterschool #art
Fascism arrives as your friend.
It will restore your honour,
make you feel proud,
protect your house,
give you a job,
clean up the neighbourhood,
remind you of how great you once were,
clear out the venal and the corrupt,
remove anything you feel is unlike you…
It doesn’t walk in saying,
“Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution.”
Michael Rosen
Image:
Ode to joy, Old Palace Yard Westminster 2019
Dedicated to the memory of Jo Cox MP
Acrylic paint, chalk and charcoal on canvas
160cm x120cm
/gallery/london/west-end/westminster-old-palace-yard-ode-to-joy/
#odetojoy #art #painting #westminster #michaelrosen
"What is success? A soldier can reckon his success in victories, a merchant in money. But my world is insubstantial. I live in a beautiful, blinding, swirling mist"
A trip across the road with the boy last night to @sandsfilmsstudio cinema club for a screening of one of the best films about an artist that I know of, starring one of my favourite actors. Rembrandt from 1936, was directed by Alexander Korda with Charles Laughton as Rembrandt Van Rijn from Leden. Laughton is captivating as Rembrandt, as he confronts the transience of life, and the struggle to make great art. His descent is told with tender emotion. Gertrude Lawrence and Elsa Lanchester are excellent as well.
Always a pleasure to hear Olivier from Sands Films speak so eloquenly about each film before a screening, but we had to leave before he spoke at the end in order to get the boy to bed.
'Vanity of vanities, All is vanity'.
#rembrandt #sandsfilmclub #Rotherhithe #art #painting
So good this exhibition, Nigerian Modernism @tate . I met up with my brother and fellow painter @chikeazuonye for a visit. Chike was taught by some of the artists in this exhibition, so he gave us a great insight into this work. Last few days to catch it, ends 12th May
Images:
'Nigeria in 1959' by Demas Nwoko, 1960
'Yoruba acrobatic dance' by Akinola Lasekan 1963
'Nightclub in Dakar' by Demas Nwoko 1963
Hammered aluminium detail by Asiru Olatunde
Portraits by Uzo Egonu 1978
#nigerianmodernism #tate #art #painting #demasnwoko
Fortune teller detail from The Old Cape Town Train Station Terminal, Adderley Street Cape Town South Africa
/gallery/cape-town/old-cape-town-train-station-terminal-adderley-street-cape-town-south-africa/
#painting #art #citylife #capetown #edgrayart
![Peace March for Gaza, Whitehall 150cm x 120cm with street sketchesWork in progressWords to paint by from Philip Guston ...''I feel more as if I'm shaping something with my hands. I feel as if I've always wanted to get to that state. Like a blind man in a dark room had some clay, what would he make? I end up with 2 or 3 forms on a canvas, but it gets very physical for me. I always thought I am a very spiritual man, not interested in paint, and now I discover myself to be very physical and very involved with matter. I want to be involved with how heavy things are, a balloon, how light things are, things levitating, pushing forms, make me feel as if my hand is pushing in a head, bulges out here and pushes there.""Actually, one of the real problems that always bothers me [in creating a painting] is sustaining a feeling. I mean, when I look at Poussin now, well, I think that's the most incredible thing to maintain the feeling for a year, however long it took Poussin, I'm telling you, to paint this vast structure. But perhaps that is not given to us now.""When I see people painting quote 'abstract' art, I think it's just a dialogue, there is you painting and this canvas. I think there has to be a third thing,it has to be a trialogue. Whether that third thing - it must be, to reverberate and make trouble, you have to have trouble and contradictions, it has to become complex because life is complex, emotions are complex, - whether that third element is a still life of something, or an idea or a concept, in each case it has to be a trialogue and above all has to involve you....The real thing that matters is how involved you are in that"#art #painting #protest #resistance #whitehall](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6727471135415567336521_0_7a9ea8cf2e49154994a3cc3669053222.jpg?o=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&h=eff5b697d5d054b1c43d07cb5e5ea372)
