Great to be showing alongside Belfast artists Tony Hill, Susan Connolly and Louise Wallace amongst many others at House for An Art Lover, Glasgow. Fully Awake is an ongoing series of painting shows organised by Ian Hartshorne and Sean Kaye.
Friday, 3 November 2017
Tuesday, 15 August 2017
The Painter Pinched Into Action
"Tuesday evening, June 6th
2017
It has been a particularly bad
day in the studio, full of painting problems. I retire for a while and,
aimlessly it seems at first, reach for a book, although when I settle on
Berger’s The Shape of a Pocket, my aimlessness seems to hold the hope of
becoming a deliberate action. Normally in such circumstances, I have habitually
turned to books about painters to find a way around painting problems, but in
recent months it is increasingly the written word- of a novelist, an essayist, or
perhaps a short story writer- that has provided me with solace. Berger’s words
have very often carried me as a painter, so I remain hopeful, this Tuesday
evening, as I decide to turn to ‘A Man with Tousled Hair'."
-excerpt from a paper to be presented at 'John Berger Now' conference at Canterbury Christ Church University, 11th-13th September.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)