ART AND IDEAS Volume 3

 

A short newsletter bringing ideas in creativity, sources of inspiration, galleries and artists + any other valuable snippets on which I stub my toe! 

 

1. Under the Hammer 

e.g. Sotheby’s,  

The big auction houses, Sotheby’s and Christies, send out wonderful newsletters each week. Given their close ties to the USA, they often bring examples and insights or work from that particular part of the world. Consider signing up?

 

2. New Discoveries: Emily Patrick

Every now and again an artist passes my line of vision and things are never quite the same, and life is better. A week or so back I caught the review in The Week of Emily Patrick’s show. The show has ended. Then thank goodness for a wonderful downloadable catalogue. At college we were always encouraged to seek out the work of the artists and make meaning of it for ourselves and in our own practice. Thus it is with Emily’s work. This link might give you some sense of my excitement… https://emilypatrick.com/show.php

 

3. I’m Backing British*

Bernard Jacobson Gallery presents a group show of paintings, prints, sculptures and works on paper by British artists. This gallery/organisation is a powerhouse of all that is wonderful about British art (1900 – year to date) British Art : Part 1  

Enjoy the link…

British Art : Part 1

4. London Boy: Leon Kossoff.

Gallery Piano Nobile have published a fab piece on Kossoff. 

Link: https://www.piano-nobile.com/artists/1165-leon-kossoff/  Frank Auerbach (whom I worship) was a close friend and artistic peer of Kossoff’s over 70 years. They met at St. Martin's School of Art in the late 1940s, both studied under David Bomberg, shared a studio for a time, and were known for their thick, heavy impasto techniques.  Bomberg to be featured here soon.

 

5. Education Slot #self-improvement.

Any artist-printmaker that opens her promotional round robin with 

‘Last week I visited the John Piper exhibition at Wiltshire Museum in Devizes - what a treat! It is a fabulous exhibition and definitely worth going to.’  Gets my attention. I claim bragging rights for knowing and working with hannah@hannahcantellowstudio.co.uk

So here is a link to her programs workshop and such.  

You know what? I might sign on for one of those drawing trips

Hannah’s full newsletter here

THANK YOU  Another issue in about six weeks

What To Look For Winter

Casting around for a theme/ the subject that my group could paint an upcoming class in mid-January I suddenly thought about the lanes in hedgerows hereabouts. How these things might be put together as an arranging to draw and paint. And this prompted to pull that wonderful Ladybird book What To Look For Winter off the shelf. 

Ladybird books were those treasures we used to read before children were given tablets and kindles. Arguably Ladybird books were more fun and nourishing.

 On my walks this week I started looking closely at the colours and shapes of plants and trees. And took these photographs for reflection. The collection is not complete however it does make you think about what is available and how very wonderful it all is in Winter…. 

Translations into watercolour

 

Then I imagined it might be good to see how the snaps translate into watercolour. These treatments might inform how others might, just might, want to consider tackling the subject we will set out on the painting table on January 19^th. 

 

Ladybird book What To Look For Winter by E L Grant Wilson with illustrations by C. F Tunnicliffe, R.A. Published 1959 Ladybird Books Ltd Loughborough all copyrights ownerships or gratefully acknowledged by this author.