Art
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Zen and the art of watercolour painting at Casale Monticchio
Painting the swimming pool at Casale Monticchio to relax whilst on holiday
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Do Ho Suh at the Tate modern
Do Ho Suh merging his childhood hanock home with a 19th century american townhouse in polycarbonate sheet…
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Are you Good Enough for the Cha Cha Cha? Stephen Willats
I first came across Stephen Willat’s work in the Tate Britain which was showing his piece ‘Living with Practical Realities’ which captured the reality of an elderly lady living in high rise flats. I was taken with the way he presented the information, in a sort of photomontage meets service design customer journey map. I…
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A surprise Giorgio Griffa at the Tate modern
Finding Three lines with arabesque No.111 by Giorgio Griffa in the Tate modern.
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Swimming pool paintings at the Hotel Aequa
For our family summer holiday we stayed at the Hotel Aequa and I relaxed by making watercolour paintings in my sketchbook.
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7 Reece Mews Francis Bacon’s Studio at the Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin
Francis Bacon’s studio at the Hugh Lane gallery.
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Making scenery for the Lion King at St Jude’s
Creating a backdrop and scenery for the St Judes school play.
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The Life and Opinions of John Baldessari, artist
John Baldessari and Laurence Sterne. There is an edition of ‘The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen’, written by Lawrence Sterne, printed by Arion Press with 39 photo-collage illustrations by John Baldessari in his own unique style. Discovered by coincidence after reading Baldessari’s obituary. I have always liked the coloured circles on his photo-collages.…
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Stephen Willats , how tomorrow looks from then…
I saw these photo collages at the Tate modern ages ago and didn’t know what to make of them. Really struck me they were using the visual language of service design. But was very struck by their combination of messaging, diagrammatic structure and provocative text. I have spent a while looking around the internet and…
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Andrew and Hugue
A portrait of my friends Andrew and Hugue who run an amazing holiday let at Casale Monticchio in Umbria. I was thinking about figurative British painting in the sixties and seventies, and had got them to pose in the style of the American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman) from 1968 by David Hockney.
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