Mrs Blacks washing

Many thanks to Josh and Patrica Freeman for taking home to Los Angeles 'Mrs Blacks washing' (1020x760mm) and two other paintings.
Its always nice to see one of your favourite painting finding a good home and Patrica was so enthusiastic about Mrs Black I just had to let it go.
Josh was about to have several of the 'Modernity' series but with Mrs Black on its way, contained himself to the one. But popped 'Janet and John' into the bag as well.

Our first collective exhibition

Its official.
We have our first collective exhibition booked and the Museum in the Park for October 2010.
Our chosen title is 'Crossings' taking the cross fertilization of ideas and connections that are the base of abstraction and inform an new audience of the great possibilities that lie in abstract painting.
The museum is keen that offer a outreach program to schools and the public about our thoughts and process and we intend to do workshops and talks about our work and techniques. A favourite topic of mine is the relationship between painter and viewer, it not being seen as a passive contribution, hopefully this sort of presentation will provoke response from the audiences.
Over the next couple of months there is a great deal to get settled and sorted, allocating tasks to different members of the group will be fun. The sooner this stuff is sorted the longer we have to focus on the truly important task of producing paintings to make the exhibition truly an event.

Tate with Malcolm and Roxy

I had the perfect day with my oldest friend when we visited Richard Longs exhibition at Tate Britain. Before though a show that every one should go and see at The National Theatre, James Ravilious.


(James Ravilious - photographer of rural life 1939 - 1999 ...
James Ravilious was a photographer of rural and farming life in Devon and the west of England, photographs of Devon, photographs of old Devon, ...
www.jamesravilious.com/ ) This man, who was self taught, took intensely sensitive photos in his Devon village the likes are only matched by Cartier-Bresson himself.


Back to the Tate we found to rooms I had not explored before. One an installation of Ian Hamilton-Finlay,
(Ian Hamilton Finlay art, Scotland, little sparta, poetry ...
The art of Ian Hamilton Finlay is unusual for encompassing a variety of different media. Poetry, philosophy, history, gardening and landscape design are ...
www.ianhamiltonfinlay.com/)
A very moving contrast to the adjoining room of the English painters of the 50's like Roger Hilton, Ben Nicholson, Frost and Wynter. All of whom are in my top painters list. The room crackled with life and colour.
Everything though was made more intense through the sharing with Malcolm and Roxy.