Swung by Barbara's as she needs jollying up ... using alot of BLACK at the moe and a making a few trips too many to the dump to get rid of the evidence!
gone mechanical on repeated image!
Dark times
Stunning !!! Want it ...Isle of Skye
Looking at the Isle of Skye beauties !
Mountains ??!! Oh yes !
Barbara found this old photo in her parents photo album while clearing out the house, Quite extraordinary the similarity to one of her old paintings from 2000 . Freaky ! But inspirational... its set her on a new road from the soft blue subtleties of Skye to the hard cold bleakness of the mountain range...
Barbara explaining how she'd ended up scraping off more paint than she'd put on !
Not a good day ...one of the Black ones that didn't get binned
An earlier Skye painting...so different to the misty soft landscape above
She's been working slavishly at a stunning painting of Skye .(4th one down ) It seems Barbara is moving away from canvas at the moment and back towards Khadi Paper ....got to say , love em all but the latest Skye (no4) is on my wish list.
Spanning nearly five decades, and coinciding with the artist’s 80th birthday, Gerhard Richter: Panorama is a major retrospective exhibition that groups together significant moments of his remarkable career.
Since the 1960s, Gerhard Richter has immersed himself in a rich and varied exploration of painting. Gerhard Richter: Panorama highlights the full extent of the artist's work, which has encompassed a diverse range of techniques and ideas. It includes realist paintings based on photographs, colourful gestural abstractions such as the squeegee paintings, portraits, subtle landscapes and history paintings.
Gerhard Richter was one of the first German artists to reflect on the history of National Socialism, creating paintings of family members who had been members, as well as victims of, the Nazi party. Continuing his historical interest, he produced the 15-part work October 18 1977 1988, a sequence of black and white paintings based on images of the Baader Meinhof group. Richter has continued to respond to significant moments in history throughout his career; the final room of the exhibition includes September 2005, a painting of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York in 2001.
Lovers of the epic beauty of Rothko, Twombly and Hodgkin will have much to enjoy, as will those who appreciate striking portraiture or the crystal-clear precision of photorealism.
Gerhard Richter: Panorama is organised by Tate Modern in association with Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Centre Pompidou, Paris
Gerhard Richter Painting Thursday 6 October, Sunday 9 October, Sunday 16 October, Sunday 23 October 2011
Looks like a fantastic exhibition , Barbara loved it , his versitility is extraordinary, want to go with Joel in Jan when London isn't so Christmas Crazey.
13th Oct 11am meeting with Sandra Peaty to discuss Joel's exhibition next year in the Studio at Pallant House . Well what should have been a productive meeting on what dates Joel was to have his show at Pallant House, turned completely unexpectedly into rather devistating news that the studio was double booked so unfortunately Joel would not be able to have his show there .
So we left P H rather dumb founded, but not defeted , we rose to the challenge of finding an alternative venue ... straight down the road to The Oxmarket Arts Centre and chatted to the lovely Sophie at reception , She said it was fully booked for next year but I left our details in case a space became available in the Wilson Room . Next we went to a little inderpendant gallery Pretty Scruffy again in the heart of Chichester, and very helpful delightful little Gallery they could offer Joel the space but sadly it was just too small for what he would need . The Otter Gallery up at the University was also booked up at least a year in advance, So then we went to Havant Arts Centre and picked up all the forms to apply there. I also contacted Art Space in Portsmouth and got on the list there , they have a space in June, so thats possible .
What a day , Joel is very quiet and pensive . I feel for him and so want to make things right. The following week I went to Joel's studio and saw this picture of the swimmer....Joel has removed the water that previously surrounded it, its now left suspended in a kind of silent limbo.. reflective prehaps of how hes feeling now .
