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April 26, 2006
painting update
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Not a huge amount different in my life this week than there was last: which means that I am in one of my mindless routines as I work towards completing this series of paintings for the Sarah Wiseman Gallery. They are all trying to use Oxford as a backdrop for thes daft characters to inhabit. There is the giant scotsman as a visitor attraction on Christchurch meadow. And, in another (not detailed above) the same giant scotsman is in disguise as a country gentleman as he must have escaped the park. Maybe King Kong has rubbed off on me more than i imagined. The series of paintings are emerging more surreal than I have done for a while, but hopefully retain some of the spirit of the mundane as I try to convey my own relationship with Oxford over the past year. The colours are very muted and dirty at the moment - which is distinctively different from the Oxford series I did in the Autumn - perhaps because I am using less expensive paint, but also due to the being a very muted and damp time of year here. I have about another 6 weeks to complete them and perhaps do a couple more - but I think I can do that.
The good news is that Catharine put me onto a good framer in Reading who can do it much cheaper than anyone in Oxford. So I have put four of my Cyprus pictures in which are going into the Bristol Affordable Art Fair next month.
This weekend is May Day, and we are going down to Hastings for the Jack in the Green festival (which I painted about two years ago). I cant wait to get my dose of the sea and the madness of Pagan Hastings again.
Till I blog again Robloggers!
Posted by robbie at April 26, 2006 10:15 PM
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