Category: Fulbridge Entrance ‘Bigger Picture’
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I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
‘Studio Tango Revisited’ One week before it was set in place I posted a movie on youtube of the Fulbridge Entrance painting in its finished but unvarnished state. Although staff and children at the school were aware of the design, and informed of the progress of the painting through photographs presented as a visual diary on…
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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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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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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…
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5.3.13 I’ve now reached the tricky bit, making final decisions and pulling the composition together. Today I’ve been working with the child figures, tomorrow will be the turn of the army of Lilliputians. As with any painting I need to be sure that the composition has reached its peak before I can allow it to…
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4.3.13 Many years ago I was talking to a chum about the renovation project we were about to undertake after moving into our home, which we bought in a very dilapidated state. The place required a serious makeover, and because of the cost we had no choice but to do the bulk of it ourselves.…
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1.3.13 Today Fulbridge School became an Academy without a new sign above their entrance, but with black paint now on my brush I’m entering the end game. Large lettering has been the object of my attention and Monday will be more of the same. Then, it’s the army of Lilliputians to tackle, two large figures to…