Tag: Painting
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Take Me To The River
The Art of Poetry Two paintings, ‘Blue Salute Sunset. Turner Speaking From Beyond the Horizon’ & ‘Black Nene Willows’, included in a diverse exhibition of art inspired by poetry and accompanied by the poetry that inspired it. The exhibition, at Obsidian Art Gallery in Stoke Mandeville, will be open from Friday 21 March – Wednesday…
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Doin’ the Mess Around
Image making workshops at Newark Hill Primary 5.3.14 A two week break since my last visit to NHPS, so the priority with today’s session was to pick up momentum again. Not exactly a ‘Mess Around’ but definitely a constructive one in which invention and investigation played a major part. As with any medium I’d always encourage…
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Start Me Up
The Importance Of Being Nobby ‘If you start me upIf you start me up I’ll never stop, never stop, never, never, ever stop………….‘ Many of my paintings have a hidden story and the memory of producing them is often indelible, which is one reason why I find so much difficulty parting with them. This one…
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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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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…