Author: Colin Slater – artist
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Smile Like You Mean It
Portrait Drawing at the National Gallery 2 January 2014 A visit to the National Gallery, with notebook and pencil. A day spent learning from the Masters to improve concentration, the discipline of looking and the nerve of working in a public space. With drawing, there’s no hiding place. (See also ‘Unforgettable’ – notebook drawings of…
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I Like Dirt
Artist in Residence at the Voyager Academy – The Workshops 5/13/20.11.13 An opportunity to work with year 8 and 6th form students as Artist in Residence at The Voyager Academy, Peterborough, with an invitation to lead image making workshops using unconventional materials and concluding by working with students to paint a large ‘cave’ painting. It began…
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Instant Karma!
Titchmarsh Primary/Warmington School ‘Unity & Friendship Sharing Day’ Mural 18.10.13 ‘I wrote it for breakfast, recorded it for lunch and we’re putting it out for dinner’ The words of John Lennon, and the story, as he told it, about how the song ‘Instant Karma’ was produced. It’s slightly inaccurate. It was written and recorded in…
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Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting
George Bellows (1882-1925): Modern American Life 9.6.13 An afternoon with George Bellows at the Royal Academy, and an exhibition of contrasts. Gatherings in open spaces, and in claustrophobic cityscapes and interiors. Freezing winters, suffocating summers. Powerful, stark structures of a city metamorphosing into a modern age. The rural idyll of fields and sea. Urchins bathing…
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Monster……………..the movie!
Fulbridge Reception Corridor – Mission Accomplished! 22.7 – 17.9.13 The Reception Corridor murals at Fulbridge Academy, one wall based upon the book ‘Dear Zoo’ by Rod Campbell and the other The Gruffalo, The Gingerbread Man and Little Red Riding Hood. Fulbridge Academy, Keeton Rd, Peterborough PE1 3JQ
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Monster
Fulbridge Reception Corridor – Stage 2 30.8 – 17.9.13 A continuation of the Reception Corridor project at Fulbridge Academy where earlier this summer I painted a mural based upon the book ‘Dear Zoo’ by Rod Campbell. The painting would illustrate 3 stories within the same composition which the children would be using as reading books…
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Black Night
The Oak and the Reed 20 August 2013 An afternoon visit to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and, as has become habit, after walking up the steps and passing through the swivel door main entrance I immediately made for the first floor galleries. My first priority each time I visit is to find a small painting…
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Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except For Me & My Monkey
Fulbridge Reception Corridor 22.7 – 2.8.13 A corridor mural inspired by the book ‘Dear Zoo’ by Rod Campbell Fulbridge Academy, Keeton Rd, Peterborough PE1 3JQ
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Blinded by the Light?
Artist in Residence Workshop at Titchmarsh Primary School 27.6.13 Blinded by the light? Absolutely not. The children of Titchmarsh School weren’t phased by it at all. In fact, they were all very happy to spend a day painting with it. Today, four electronic painting workshops using the iPad following the same timetable as Monday, and…