Category: Art History
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Unforgettable
Drawing at the National Gallery ‘Unforgettable, that’s what you are Unforgettable, though near or far Like a song of love that clings to me How the thought of you does things to me……’ (Irving Gordon 1951) Just walkin’, lookin’, learnin’ and takin’ a line for a walk. Making notes. Not copying. Studying. Learning from the…
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The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) Revisited………….the movie!
‘Vivaldi’ Mural at St. Brendan’s Primary, Corby Completed August 20 St. Brendan’s Primary School, Beanfield Avenue, Corby NN18 OAZ
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The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) Revisited
‘Vivaldi’ Mural at St. Brendan’s Primary, Corby 18 – 24 August 20 Following a 5 month interlude, last week I returned to St. Brendan’s Primary in Corby to complete the ‘Vivaldi‘ mini hall mural. On the one hand it felt like no time had passed at all and yet so much has happened. It was good to…
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The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni)
‘Vivaldi’ Mural at St. Brendan’s Primary, Corby Feb – March 20 Once upon a time……. A new location, St. Brendan’s Primary in Corby, and a school with a musical reputation. Therefore when Headteacher Leanne Brydon invited me to design a painting with a collection of children’s book characters in four sections for their ‘Mini Hall’, the…
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Dido’s Lament
Remembrance Mural at Rowlatts Mead Primary Academy, Leicester Sept – Oct 19 ‘When I am laid, am laid in earth, may my wrongs createNo trouble, no trouble in thy breast;Remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate.Remember me, but ah! forget my fate’. (Dido’s Lament – Henry Purcell) Same place, but with a new…
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Reelin’ In The Years
Gruffalo Wood & Art History Timeline Mural at Meadowside Primary, Burton Latimer May – July 19 It was six years ago when I first worked with Josie Garnham. Back then she was Head of Titchmarsh Primary School and had a different name. She then became Executive Head of both Titchmarsh and Warmington Primary Schools and…
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Let’s Work Together
Warmington School/Titchmarsh Primary ‘Monet’ Mural 21.11.14 Four years on from Black Sunday and what better way to celebrate my recovery than by spending the anniversary painting a mural and participating in another ‘Sharing Day’ with Warmington and Titchmarsh Schools. This time there was a French theme, with the children coming together to experience a day…
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Pictures at an Exhibition……….Main Course!
Diner Mural at the Fulbridge Academy July – Sept ’14 The BriefJust over a year ago Iain Erskine, Principal at the Fulbridge Academy, set me a task to consider a design for a mural for the corridor leading to the Dining Hall. He asked if I could produce something with a ‘Healthy Eating’ theme which…
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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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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…