Exhibitions

Elaine Pamphilon has a new exhibition starting on the 20th October at the Adam Gallery in Bath, it finishes on the 12th November.

Edmund de Waals latest exhibition at Alan Cristea is getting good reviews, a thousand hours is on now and finishes on the 10th of November.

                           Edmund de Waal: a thousand hours from Alan Cristea Gallery on Vimeo.

Ruthin Craft Centre

I can't believe it's over a week since my last post, I have hardly done any painting and don't seem to have done anything else either. When I started writing this post I tried to think what did I actually do last week and the result was not very much, it is all a bit of a blur. I did however manage to visit my friend Michele who lives in Wales and we had a lovely day visiting Ruthin Craft Centre and there Japanese exhibition, which features Applied Arts, Architecture, Ceramics, Design and Textiles. I took a few photographs of things I found inspiring.

There were some beautiful ceramics by Takahiro Kondo, small tea bowls made in conjunction with people affected by the earthquake and tsunami. Unfortunately my pictures of these were not very good the picture below does not do them justice.

You can find out more about the exhibition here

Inspiration

Just a few artists that I have found inspiring recently.

Marti Somers, beautiful mixed media paintings exploring the fragility of nature, see her most recent exhibition here

Nicholas Wilton  multi layered paintings in oil and mixed media, he also writes a blog which I found really interesting to read and his method of working is fascinating, constantly painting and then sanding back to reveal the layers underneath.

Ceramicist Elke Sada  has a very painterly style and a fabulous use of colour, each object looks like a mini abstract painting.

Would like to see

The new Grayson Perry exhibition on at the British Museum, The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman. Artefacts made by unknown men and women from the museums collection are intertwined with Grayson's own work. Also visit the very witty blog of Grayson's 50 year old bear Alan Measles. The exhibition is on until the 19th February so plenty of time to fit this in.

Also the new Gerhard Richter exhibition Panorama on at Tate Modern until the 8th January. This is a major retrospective of this very diverse painter and includes his realist paintings, colourful gestural abstractions and paintings that respond to significant moments in history, it looks like there is much to see and enjoy in this exhibition.

BETTY

A couple of smaller exhibitions are:
Elaine Pamphilon and her partner sculptor Christopher Marvell on at the Medici Gallery in London this finishes on the 8th November. I like this more abstract piece of Elaine's.

HERE I AM SITTING ON THE BEACH WATCHING THIS WAVE AND STEVE IS TALKING POLITICS

WINGED BIRD

And Through the Garden Gate is a new Exhibition of paintings by Cornish artist David Pearce, showing at Cadogan Contemporary in London. I really like the limited palette of these paintings, beautiful soft earthy tones and very reminiscent of Roger Hilton. This exhibition finishes on 5th November.

MOOR HENS AND  MUSK MALLOW

AMONGST THE RUSHES

There is not a great deal of information on Roger Hilton but I have a great book called THE FIGURED LANGUAGE OF THOUGHT by Andrew Lambirth published by Thames and Hudson. Also found this great video of Rose Hilton (Roger's wife) talking about  the recent centenary exhibition held at Newlyn Art Gallery. Beautiful paintings and I am a real fan.