It's always interesting to take close up's of the detail in paintings, like having whole new paintings! This painting, just sold, is entitled Good Morning Waterloo and was painted from a vantage point in a stairwell in an office building at Waterloo.
It was lovely to get an email a few years back from the daughter of a very talented local artist, Rosalind Pope a long-term stalwart of the Bexley Art Group in the 1970's - 1990's. Rosalind painted beautiful delicate watercolours as you can see below...
How fast time flies... this painting of Canary Wharf was painted in the early 2000's, at the time it seemed like a very dramatic skyline.
Belgraves St Ives gallery, Cornwall is hosting...
19th February to 14th March 2022
A selection of paintings by students and teachers at Camberwell School of Art. Includes works by Adrian Berg, Christopher Chamberlain, John Charles Clark, Peter Clossick, Mario Dubsky, Tom Espley, Antony Eyton, Maurice Feild, Terry Frost. Anthony Fry, Graham Giles, Keith Grant, Julie Held, Francis Hoyland, Henry Inlander, Dick Lee, Ben Levene, Anna Lovely, Sargy Mann, Felicity Mara, Philip Mathews, Robert Medley, Alice Mumford, Bernard Myers, Victor Pasmore, George Rowlett, Elliot Seabrooke, Terry Scales, Sarah Spackman, Michael Strang, Arnold van Praag and Keith Vaughan.
CAMBERWELL Teachers and Students - a Personal Selection - Exhibitions - Belgrave St Ives
Wishing You All a Peaceful, Healthy and Brighter 2022
Let us hope that we will all be able to go out in a more relaxed way and enjoy each others company again soon.
In the 1980's the Barley Mow was a thriving local pub in Greenwich with a welcoming atmosphere. Every time the door opened at the weekend the sounds of a piano player, old time tunes and raucous singing drifted out. Sadly the pub closed but the building is now open as a Mediterranean restaurant called The Hill.
There is an interesting website that records 'lost pubs' here;
Barley Mow, Blackheath (closedpubs.co.uk)
More rummaging through the archives.... my first job on leaving National Service in 1954 was as a figure artist at Pulfords Publicity in Fleet Street. Pulfords produced film posters and eventually became Britain's premier film advertising agency.
Here are some early figure studies, can you recognise them?
Message from the Blackheath Art Society;
"We are delighted to announce our upcoming members' exhibition at Blackheath Halls. Running from 17th November - 22 December, this is our first face-to-face exhibition since 2018.
We are thrilled to be back at the freshly refurbished Blackheath Halls and thank them for their generous welcome to our members and the public."
