Art on a Postcard

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Benjamin Murphy - Disturbing and Overwhelming

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Benjamin Murphy - Untitled 

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Ben Oakley - Crafty Werk Can Machine

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Boo Sze Yang- The Wasteland (1)

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Ben Oakley - Untitled

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Art on a Ukulele

Meet the artists participating.. Louis Turpin was born into a family of artists in Brixton. He trained in Fine Art Painting at Falmouth School of Art and has worked full-time as a painter since 1985 and exhibited widely including at the National Portrait Gallery and The Royal Academy.

"He has long been established as one of Britain's leading horticultural artists. Working in oils, he starts with a brightly coloured semi-abstract ground over which he builds the image in patches. This creates a tapestry-like effect, which suits the Victorian-gothic character of many of the gardens he paints, where rather than standing back to view a grand design, the viewer is overwhelmed by a barrage of subtly differentiated colours and textures. And it's clear he sees the gardeners who create them as kindred spirits, who are in effect painting with plants.'

(Quote: www.telegraph.co.uk/…/Louis-Turpin-the-fine-art-of-an-Engli… Image: http://www.thegardeningtimes.com/article.asp?AR01=1173)

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Meet the artists participating.. Jock Mcfadyen RA is a British Painter living and working in London, Edinburgh and France. Born in Scotland Mcfadyen moved to London age 15 to study at Chelsea School of Art where he earned an MA in 1977. Between 1980-2005 he taught at the Slade School of Art and in 1981 he was Artist in Residence at the National Gallery, London. He then set up Grey Gallery and which he runs with his wife, violinist Susie Honeyman. Jock has had over 40 solo exhibitions.

Jock has stated that his work has taken many stages that occur almost as a reaction to the last. In the 1991 he was commissioned to design the set for Kenneth MacMillan’s last Ballet The Judas Tree at the Royal Opera House and because the dancers were on stage his set featured no people. Since then he has said that his focus on landscapes is due to realising that the people in his paintings were just props ‘a crutch to painting the landscape’. Citing American realist film as an influence, his style is a wonderful blend of photographic realism and his own unique ability to paint the magic and humour lurking within ordinary modern life landscapes with a distinctive painterly style. 

(Image: Tate Moss, http://www.jockmcfadyen.com/picpages/tate_moss.htm)

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Meet the artists participating..Charles Williams studied at the Royal Academy where he was a prize winner for his anatomical drawings. He is a founding member of the first Stuckist Art group in 1999. The stuckist’s were revolting against post-modernist, conceptual art and their aim is to get back to the true-spirit of modernism and to produce works of ‘spiritual value’, with heavy importance put upon painting as a medium. In one manifesto they described their work as ‘anti-anti-art’. Charles’s work is a reflection on modern life, situated in living rooms, parks and dinner tables. However, the perspective and spacing is always warped and sits uneasily, creating almost nightmarishly obscure scenes out of settings we are so familiar with. He has said that his work comments on ‘conformist mundanity’, creating social critique through the use of vibrant and absurdist painting. 

 (Image: On the Way the to Abbatoir, http://www.stuckism.com/williams/IndexLarge2.html#2) 

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In today's blog we meet David McKean. David is an illustrator who gravitates towards the intersection between reality and the imagination. Read the blog in full HERE

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Meet the artists participating.. Peter Messer studied Fine Art at the University of Brighton and has been a regular exhibitor at the RA Summer Exhibition. He works mainly in egg tempera, not to be confused with the deep fried Japanese dish, egg tempera is the historic medium of mixing egg yolk and raw pigment to create an oil-based paint that can be thinned with water but that dries very quickly. Peter has assured his viewers in the past ‘no it doesn’t go ‘off’ and no, I don’t eat lots of meringues’. The outcome of this process is that the artist creates a strong bond with the materials and process of painting as much as the painting itself. In a world where everything we consume is fast and mass-produced, Peter’s beautiful work is refreshingly subtle, still and sensory. His paintings provide much needed space to breathe, to get lost in and to reflect. 

(Image: Peter Messer, http://www.petermesser.com)

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In today's blog we meet PJ Crook. In today’s blog we get lost in Crook’s crowds that brim with narrative, and create a spectacle of modern life. Read the blog in full HERE

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Meet the artists participating.. Eugenie Vronskaya is a Russian born figurative painter whose work has been exhibited worldwide. Studying Icon Painting from as early as nine years old, Vronskaya went on to study at the Krasnopresnenskya School of Artin 1981-83. She then became the first Russian to enroll on the Masters course at the Royal College of Art where she would take portrait commissions to pay her fees. Vronskaya’s work is bold and dreamlike, she uses often harsh and confident paintwork in such a way that captures the mood and likeness of a person or landscape and tells the viewer a story. John Russell Taylor said ‘we only have to look at the drawings and Vronskaya has few rivals in Britain for sheer draughtsmanship’. In 1997 Eugenie moved to the Scottish Highlands where she established her studio at Moniach Castle and has lived ever since. 

(Image: Eugenie Vronskaya in her studio by Nancy MacDonald, www.nancymacdonald.co.uk/the-artist-studio-eugenia-vronskaya)

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In today's blog we meet Glen Baxter whose works are irresistibly funny and often very deep. In philosophy “the Absurd” refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life and our inability to find it. Read the blog in full HERE

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Meet the artists participating.. Michael Kirkbride’s work is a composite of earlier concerns with objects, people and styling at the fore, although the subtlety of gesture and the introduction of surrealistic elements have added a new twist to works which oscillate between observation and imagination. His work is now more a focus on the interface between the banal with the incongruous, where often one scenario is hybridised with another. Above all they are forays into everyday life in which the human figure continues to be the dominant recurring structural motif, whether through the formality of observation or the idiosyncrasy of invention.

(Image – Beach figures 3 http://www.michaelkirkbridefineart.com/michaelkirkbridefineart.com/Michael_Kirkbride_NEAC.html )

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In today's blog Katherine Stewart writes about Bill Jacklin RA whose ukulele is finished and back with Pete Howlett. Bill’s rich artistic training is visible in the broad scope of his work. Over the years he has approached a variety of subjects through a multitude of mediums, such as graphics, painting and 3-Dimensional art. Read the full blog HERE

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Meet the artists participating.. David Mach RA is known for his dynamic and imaginative large scale collages, sculptures and installations using diverse media, including coat hangers, matches, magazine and many other materials. The Scotsman describes his work as ‘big on gesture and big in proportion, it demands you attention and gets it.’ He received an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Dundee in 2002. In 2003 his ‘Arm’s Length’ sculpture of a woman made in coat hangers won The Jack Goldhill Award for sculpture at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. In 2004 he was elected an honorary member of the Royal Scottish Academy and the same year, the University of Dundee appointed him Professor of Inspiration and Discovery. From 2006 - 2010 he became a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery.

(Image – Tiger www.designboom.com/art/david-mach-sculptures-made-from-matchsticks-coat-hangers-and-playing-cards/ )

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In today’s blog Rosa Torr writes about landscape painter David Inshaw. Inshaw is inspired by the works of Thomas Hardy who used the countryside as a metaphor for the human psyche, creating work that holds a dreamlike, surreal quality. Read the blog in full HERE

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