Author: Colin Slater – artist
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Travelling Without Moving
Titchmarsh Primary ‘Passport’ Mural 25.6 – 2.7.13 On 26th February, while still painting the Fulbridge Entrance Project, I received an email from Josie Milton, Head Teacher of Titchmarsh Primary School, Northants ‘Hi Colin I would be very interested in commissioning you to come and do a mural at our school or even an artist in…
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Wonderful Life
Return to Loch Craignish 26 May – 1 June 2013 Following a gap of 5 years, a long overdue return to Argyll and a peaceful week spent walking, reading, drawing, painting and beachcombing along the shoreline of Loch Craignish, from the marina at Ardfern to the Point looking across to the isles of Lunga, Scarba…
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A Salty Dog
Sounds of the Sea A collection of North Norfolk seascapes on show at the Right Angle Gallery, Brackley. A distant horizon, the taste of sea salt, the call of sea birds and the running tide, with a soundtrack by Elgar, Debussy, Britten, Glazunov …………………………………… and Procul Harem A Salty DogOil on Board 30 x 61…
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Rock Island
A Postcard from Crete 10 – 17 April 2013 A first visit, a new landscape to stimulate the senses and much to learn. An invitation to visit Agia Pelagia, near Spili, in the centre of the island. A landscape filled with the clamour of goat bells and the ‘singing’ of crickets and cicadas; the dappled…
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Roots to Branches 35
15.3.13 ‘Yes, I have been privileged to know some of the noblest walls in England, but happy fortune reserved the best for my last – the last love of my old age. In form, in surface, in elasticity, in lighting, and in that indefinable something which is, as we all know, the final beauty of…
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Roots to Branches 34
12.3.13 Another chilly Studio Tango work-out. It’s taken a full day to make floor space return in order that I could address the task of wrapping the 7 sections with some protective bubble for their journey to Fulbridge. It’s been heavy and awkward work, but late afternoon all was packaged and prepared. So, it’s job…
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11.3.13 Now the flip side, although the word ‘flip’ doesn’t adequately describe the action and effort required to turn the boards over. Henri once again took on the role of artist’s assistant this morning, so that the sections could be turned with the possibility of damaging the painted surfaces kept to a minimum. With both…
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Roots to Branches 32
8.3.13 There is a small painting by William Parrot, in the Ruskin department of Museums Sheffield, which records my mentor JMW Turner at the Royal Academy on Varnishing Day. Varnishing Day was a special event, when artists could varnish their paintings before the official opening of the Summer Exhibition. Turner not only used this occasion…
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6.3.13 ‘When will you make an end?’ ‘When I am finished!’ Not an impassioned plea from Iain Erskine, but Rex Harrison speaking to Charlton Heston in ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy’. Not a film about drug use, but a drama illustrating the relationship between Pope Julius II and Michelangelo during the painting of the Sistine…