tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-192769732024-02-28T15:50:36.447+00:00The Opposite of TomatoThis blog's title is based upon the best question I ever overheard being asked, by a young Liverpudlian child to his mother, as in "What's..?".
The answer seems to be something of a creative and cultural nature which, in deed (primarily the making of art) and word, this blog intends to explore...James Rowleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18319921106730333380noreply@blogger.comBlogger1178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19276973.post-61417448227538139402020-03-13T09:25:00.000+00:002020-03-13T09:25:21.593+00:00The Second Half of an Update<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-029192fe-7fff-96ab-4979-e19d4f23abb1" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Liverpool’s reward was to progress to a Second Round meeting with Hungary’s wonderful <b>Ferencváros</b>, one of a number of attractive clubs from Budapest, who had previously eliminated <b>Cardiff City</b> from the competition after a fabulous 4 - 1 victory on Welsh soil (as I was to become a <b>Wrexham FC</b> supporter, historically this defeat of the most despised of rivals is thus doubly enjoyable), and it is the first leg of this match, on Merseyside, that provides the source image for the next drawing, of Liverpool, and Kevin Keegan (again!) in particular, pictured attacking the Ferencváros goal. Keegan scored on the night to give his team a lead they held until the final minute, when <b>Maté</b> equalised for our Hungarian heroes, a goal that ultimately proved decisive as, following a scoreless return match, Ferencváros progressed to the next round courtesy of the ‘away goals rule’ in the event of a tied aggregate, a journey that subsequently continued to the Final of the 1974 - 75 season’s Cup-Winners’, where they sadly succumbed 0 - 3 to the then-Soviet Union’s <b>Dynamo Kiev</b>, one of the great clubs of European football but nowhere near one of my particular favourites, even from the Ukraine.</span></span></b></div>
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James Rowleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18319921106730333380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19276973.post-31326162715379916242020-02-01T09:00:00.000+00:002020-02-01T09:00:12.561+00:00The Seventies Go Up North (For a Beer and a Smoke)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Things have taken something of Northern turn in the Seventies project of late, with a recollection of a particular song from 1979 that us young (post-)punks took to our hearts – </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">‘TV Stars’</strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, the b-side of the </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Skids’</strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">‘Into the Valley’</strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> hit single (which we likewise favoured) – providing the inspiration to source an image featuring the particular one glorified in the song’s chanted chorus, </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Albert Tatlock</strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, the cantankerous old pensioner from the cast of the soap opera that endures to this day, </span><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Coronation Street’</strong></em><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">. The most appropriate image to suggest itself proved itself to be even more for also including the character of </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Stanley Ogden</strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> in the company of Mr Tatlock, as Stan is also celebrated within the lyrics of ‘TV Stars’ along with a pair of other ‘Street’ regulars of the time. The glee with which Ogden (played by </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Bernard Youens</strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">) is regarding the pint of beer he’s encouraging Albert (</span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Jack Howarth</strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">) to appreciate is delightful in this image, the simple pleasure of a working (bin)man sharing his enthusiasm with a neighbour, and formed part of the programme’s charm back in the day when I was a regular viewer, thus there is a proper hauntological aspect and poignancy to processing such a drawing, as well as recalling our schoolboy enthusiasm for the music we were discovering and enjoying (and I still do!).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">More flat caps, beer and fags in a northern setting to follow, with a representation of the Chairman of the Committee of the </span><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club’</strong></em><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> (another Granada TV production), the comedian </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Colin Crompton</strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, in the full flow of one of his interjections – announced by the ringing of a manual fire bell that he had on the top of the table at which he sat – during the course of the variety show based in a simulacrum (a word I wouldn’t have used at the time!) of a typical working men’s club. This was a character I can recall impersonating amongst friends.</span></span><br />
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<span style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">If anything upping the Northern ante yet further, the following pair of drawings represent the former England international cricketer <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fred Trueman</strong>, as I recall encountering him for the first time, during his subsequent media incarnation, as the laconic, cardigan-wearing, pipe-smoking presenter of <em style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘The Indoor League’</strong></em>, a compendium of essentially pub challenge games such as darts, bar billiards, shove ha’penny and suchlike. A man entirely at ease with himself (hardly surprising given what turned out to have been a very successful sporting career), resplendent in the fashions of the 1970s and a magnificent jet-black tonsure, Fred would sign off each programme with a gruff Yorkshire “Ah’ll sithee” (“I’ll see you”) and it is this that I recall most clearly, in fact to the exclusion of all else about the show: that wink in the first portrait surely captures just such a moment of closure.</span></span></div>
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James Rowleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18319921106730333380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19276973.post-83544141320922188942020-01-31T15:05:00.000+00:002020-01-31T15:05:48.228+00:00Seventies’ Comedy Classics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">More fondly-remembered TV characters and programmes form the content of this update, </span><span style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">with representations/remediations of images featuring landlord <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rigsby</strong> (<strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Leonard Rossiter</strong>) and one of his tenants, <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Miss Jones</strong> (<strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Frances de la Tour</strong>), from the sitcom <em style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Rising Damp’</strong></em>, Rossiter in his other iconic comic role of the mid-to-late 1970s as <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Reginald Perrin</strong> in <em style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘The Fall and Rise of…’</strong></em> and the cast of <em style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘The Good Life’</em>, featuring the Goods, <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Barbara</strong> and <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tom</strong> (<strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Felicity Kendal</strong> and <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Richard Briers</strong>), and the Leadbetters, <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Margo</strong> and<strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Jerry</strong> (<strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Penelope Keith</strong> and <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Paul Eddington</strong>), all of which have gone down in the annals of British television history.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The sequence of links here is, obviously, Rossiter – Rossiter and another character, Tom Good who, like Reggie Perrin, opted-out of the stifling 9 – 5 rat race. Interestingly, Leonard Rossiter also has a link to the subject of an earlier drawing in the Seventies project, as he played the role of <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Shadrack</strong> in the original 1960s cinematic representation of <em style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Billy Liar’</strong></em>, although of course the project’s Billy is from the 1970s television adaptation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">During their time in the mid-1970s, prior to the advent of video recorders – or at least these being the norm in many homes – and, now, ‘catch-up’ streaming services and multiple ‘nostalgia’ channels broadcasting such shows in heavy rotation, these programmes were a once-a-week and ‘only opportunity’ treat, an event the whole family would gather before for an amusing half hour and it’s interesting to recall that aspect of society and culture, a significant part of one’s growing-up.</span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"></span></b></div>
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James Rowleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18319921106730333380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19276973.post-71293503365847076942020-01-10T10:38:00.000+00:002020-01-10T10:43:25.027+00:00Post-Yuletide Update<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">One of the benefits of the holiday-from-the-day-job season, at least in academic circles, is a two-week break that, among other things, allows more quality time, some of it even during daylight hours, to get some painting and/or drawing done, and this year I’ve used such opportunity to continue with the Seventies project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The first drawing to be processed follows on from the previous one of <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘The Protectors’</strong> in that it features a pair of representations of the picture sleeves of the 7″ vinyl record of <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tony Christie</strong>‘s ‘<em style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Avenues and Alleyways’</strong></em>, which song provided the memorable theme tune to that particular television series. This still life is in fact something of a concoction, with images of the respective record covers sourced from the internet, drawn from prints of the images and then transformed into objects with reference to an arrangement of two physical 7″ single records in picture covers, the random choice of which, in terms of the music contained within, are individually and collectively about as far from the Christie song and production as it’s possible to imagine, even if all three are enduring classics of their kind!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Following on from the previous entry, the drawing above also features among its cast of human subjects the actress <b>Gabrielle Drake</b>, on this occasion represented in character as <b><i>‘Lt. (Gay) Ellis’</i></b> as she appeared in the early 1970s British television series <b>‘UFO’</b>, which I recall as being a particular favourite of my young self at the time, quite possibly to the point of obsession, as I know I numbered among my substantial collection of ‘Dinky’ toy cars (a definite obsession) the range of three vehicles that were merchandised from the show, including the gold car of the platinum blond '<b><i>Commander Ed Straker'</i></b> (played by <b>Ed Bishop</b>), who forms the central figure of the trio depicted. The portrait to the right is of the magnificently and memorably-named <b>Vladek Sheybal</b>, in his role of <b><i>‘Dr Doug Jackson’</i></b>, who, in a curious coincidence, is recorded as appearing in 10 episodes of the total of 26 produced, as is/was Gabrielle Drake, who I must admit I had no recollection of, unlike her role in the previously-referenced <b>‘Kelly Monteith Show</b>’: apparently, Drake and Sheybal only featured in 2 episodes together, 1970’s <b><i>‘Kill Straker!’</i></b> and the following year’s <b><i>‘Ordeal’</i></b>.</span></span></div>
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James Rowleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18319921106730333380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19276973.post-21806214278936638242019-11-19T09:00:00.000+00:002019-11-19T09:00:00.379+00:00Back in Time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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James Rowleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18319921106730333380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19276973.post-38755481883468498172019-11-18T15:16:00.000+00:002019-11-18T15:16:52.920+00:00Kenny Killed Us...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">A tangible souvenir of the occasion, a portal to a variety of memories, here’s an image of the front cover of the match programme and also the rear, featuring the team line-ups, both full of fine players: if only <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dixie McNeil</strong>, goalscorer <em style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">par excellence</em>, hadn’t been cup-tied and thus unavailable to represent Wrexham, though…(we can still dream of what might have been).</span></div>
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James Rowleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18319921106730333380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19276973.post-32699987655093559672019-11-12T09:53:00.000+00:002019-11-12T09:53:12.255+00:00Film and Football<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">First up are a pair of stills from the film (movie) <em style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Thunderbolt and Lightfoot’</strong></em>, which I recall seeing on television for the first time (it became what seemed like an annual event for a period of a few early-Eighties’ years) in 1979, sometime around the August Bank Holiday which was also the time <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John Peel</strong>, as featured previously, was mentioning his 40th birthday. I obviously enjoyed the film a great deal, enough to return to watch it numerous times, and can remember in particular its sun-bleached aesthetic and those scenes near the conclusion of the tale featuring a car journey between <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Clint Eastwood</strong>‘s ‘Thunderbolt’ and [spoiler alert] a dying ‘Lightfoot’ (<strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jeff Bridges</strong>, who became a real favourite actor of mine).</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Next, a drawing sourced from an original image that graced a number of the front covers of </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Wrexham FC</strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">‘s match programmes towards the latter part of 1977 and which features the central figure of </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Bobby Shinton</strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> celebrating the single goal that defeated </span><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Bristol City</strong><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> in a Football League Cup Third Round tie played at the Racecourse Ground on Wednesday 26th October, a match I attended in the company of my father and more than 10,000 other spectators. Shinton, obviously the goalscorer, is accompanied by a couple of teammates, the late Johns Roberts and Lyons, with the dejected opponent being, I think, Gerry Sweeney.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">These were the great days when Third Division Wrexham were bona fide giant killers – Bristol City were enjoying a brief period in the First Division at this time – and would reach the quarter final stage of both the FA and League Cups during the 1977-78 season, the club’s most successful ever when they went on the be crowned champions of Division Three and earn promotion to the heady heights of English football’s second tier for the first and only time in their history before adding the Welsh Cup to the list of honours. The Racecourse became littered with the scalps of the ‘big’ clubs – Bristol City again and then Newcastle United were both treated to 3-goal drubbings in FA Cup tie replays in the new year – and it took the might of European champions Liverpool and a referee-assisted Arsenal to end those glorious cup runs, memories of which remain vivid, welcome as they are in these times of the club plumbing the nadir of their almost 100 years in the national league structure (I could go on…).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The particular significance of the Bobby Shinton drawing is the fact that I made a version of it back in the day, which was published in the art section of the children’s pages of the local (NE Wales) <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Evening Leader’</strong> newspaper – unfortunately, no tangible evidence of this remains but my parents did retain a cutting of an earlier artistic effort submitted to and published in the same ‘paper, which has subsequently come into my possession and here, accordingly, introduces/precedes the next drawing, one of my then-favourite footballer, <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kevin Keegan</strong>, pictured here representing <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Liverpool FC</strong> in 1976, when the original drawing was made. Of particular and curious footballing interest, 1976-77 was Keegan’s last season at Liverpool before departing for new continental challenges at <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SV Hamburg</strong> – by the following season, he had been replaced by a player who went on to even greater achievements and legend at Liverpool, <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kenny Dalglish</strong>, who downed Wrexham with a hat-trick at the Racecourse, another special occasion I was present to witness (and of which there is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hVNSsAzO1w" rel="noopener" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f68060; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Youtube</strong> footage</a> – never mind the game, look at the state of that vintage Seventies’ pitch!).</span></div>
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James Rowleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18319921106730333380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19276973.post-87502426166971763882019-10-25T13:08:00.000+00:002019-10-25T13:08:54.051+00:00Overdue Update<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Continuing with the Seventies’ project, a selection of nostalgic subject matter represented in the form of graphite drawings, another process of which I’m fond and harks back in particular to the decade in question, when drawing was my creative activity and pencil or felt pen was my medium of choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The first drawing features an action shot from the FA Cup Final of 1974, played at Wembley Stadium in London and contested between Liverpool and Newcastle United, the former running out convincing 3 – 0 winners over opponents who failed to live up to expectations and hype (‘Supermac’ amongst others who proved to be rather ordinary on the day). This in fact was the first live televised football match I watched or took any interest in, the latter to the extent that I made a drawing at the time, in the moment, in felt pen, being also the first drawing I have any recollection of making, in felt pen and concentrating particularly on rendering the thousands of faces/heads in the crowd (the attendance was 100,000 – the capacity of the ground), which obviously impressed/amazed my then 9-year-old self to the exclusion of much else, something borne out by a memory of my father, when appraising my efforts later, enquiring whether perhaps Newcastle didn’t sport vertically-striped shirts rather than the hoops I’d represented!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Anyway, here we observe Liverpool’s Kevin Keegan, probably the star of the match, hurdling a tackle by Newcastle’s number 3 Alan Kennedy (who later played for Liverpool with considerable distinction, including the scoring of two European Cup-winning goals), with the latter’s teammate Terry Hibbitt also in attendance. Admire, if nothing else, the luxuriousness of those sideburns, very much the facial hair <em style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">du jour</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Finally for this update, another figure from the world of broadcasting, and ITV’s Saturday afternoon ‘World of Sport’, the iconic and legendary Dickie Davies, at his dapper and groomed finest. ‘World of Sport’ was something I remember being on TV at my paternal grandparents’ home even before I started watching it myself once I’d quickly developed an obsession with football (see above), beginning as it did with the preview magazine ‘On the Ball’ and covering the afternoon until the final scores were in – as something of a more louche relation to the BBC’s ‘Grandstand’, all manner of more obscure sports were featured, most iconically perhaps wrestling, and these are the memories that resonate down the years, with Dickie the genial host. Of course, many of us British viewers will also recall Benny Hill’s spoofs of Dickie Davies, but here’s the man himself, seated at ‘home’ in the World of Sport studio with its also iconic logo.</span></div>
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James Rowleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18319921106730333380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19276973.post-17272701164895720782019-09-04T12:41:00.000+00:002019-09-04T12:41:06.167+00:00What We Did On Our Holidays<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Today the opposite of tomato is more or less a wide slice of the action.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The circle is not, like Castlerigg, an ancient monument, but, rather, a more modern structure, erected in the 1960s on the top field in Flint, North Wales, to commemorate the staging of the 'Eisteddfod' cultural festival - a feast movable all over Wales - in the town, and is composed of twelve standing stones arranged in circular form with a further collection of stone laid in the centre, in the style of a plinth with irregular 'steps' on all four sides. The tallest of the standing stones (probably the slightly most distant one as represented, at the left-hand edge of the plinth) is perhaps 6 feet in height.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Growing up there, and in the top end of town, it's something - a thing, an object, composed of objects, a static arrangement like a still life in the landscape - that I encountered on very many occasions, indeed daily over a period of years, more often in passing, sometimes to stop and contemplate. At various points, I photographed and drew the circle, and it is these records as they exist that inform this particular painted image, which thus embodies both specific and more general memories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">The size of the painting is rather smaller on this occasion, a deliberate attempt at experimentation with questions of scale, and, whilst retaining evidence of its brush-marked, hand-made nature, has less thickly physical a surface than the larger Castlerigg predecessor, not least in an attempt to communicate something of a 'spectral' nature which is an idea that I'm considering exploring as a theme from an interest in the nebulous concept of 'hauntology', something introduced into my frame of reference via music and related artwork (primarily the wonders of the <strong>Moon Wiring Club</strong> and the <strong><a href="http://www.blankworkshop.co.uk/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Blank Workshop</a></strong>) about ten years ago and which continues to exercise a particular fascination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Returning to the subject matter of the ‘Homepride Fred-the flour-grader’ compositions, this one again featuring an arrangement of all three of the iconic figures in the collection, arranged against a ground of a hand-drawn-and-painted approximation of a <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dekoplus</strong> fabric design of 1960s vintage that might be said to make a nod toward the similar device of the representation of bold wallpaper patterns employed by <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Patrick Caulfield </strong>as an element of the complex visual language of his paintings: the ghost of <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Euan Uglow</strong> always haunts the painting of the ‘Freds’, of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">As always, the play of natural light over the plastic surfaces of the objects and the manner in which fleeting little ‘pings’ of reflected colour occur, with the challenge of recording them, is a constant delight in the process and reason enough to continue mining this particular seam of pictorial interest. Additionally, <span style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a little light research has unearthed the discovery that the Homepride ‘Fred’ character – advertising icon to-be – was ‘born’, being the idea of Bobs Geers and Gross, in 1964, the very year of my own birth, so that feels like another connection, however tenuous and arbitrary.</span></span></div>
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James Rowleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18319921106730333380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19276973.post-82753900542853080332019-05-03T14:36:00.000+00:002019-05-03T14:37:08.552+00:00The Past Revisited<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Something of a deviation from the habitual roster of visual
subject matter in this instance, but the resultant painting came from something
of a need to return to a past concern via the medium of a specific drawing.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Going back the better part of 30 years - before, indeed, I
even embarked upon a programme and process of formal art education that took me
from foundation to postgraduate level - I’d been interested in the recording of
stone circles, initially inspired by the fact that one such was present and often
walked past in the town in which I ‘grew up’, Flint in north Wales. This
particular monument had no ancient provenance, as a number in the British Isles
do, dating rather from the 1960s when it had been erected to acknowledge the
fact of a cultural event (the Welsh National Eisteddfod) being staged locally,
but still it became an object of fascination purely in itself and material
fact, it’s ‘being there’. Accordingly, I stood and drew and photographed the
circle and its individual stones on a number of occasions, into my foundation
year - where such preparatory material was developed into at least one painting
- and, having discovered the existence of another Gorsedd circle at Bailey Hill
in the neighbouring settlement of Mold (curiously the ‘county town’ of
Flintshire), which subsequently became the subject of some sketches and a large
painting completed in the unintentional ‘gap’ year between foundation and
undergraduate courses. Relocating to Manchester to pursue what soon become an
abortive initial attempt at the latter, during what transpired to be my first
and only term there, there was presented the opportunity to go on a few days’
field trip north to the southern Lake District, being based in Keswick, and,
from there, to visit the <b>Castlerigg stone circle</b>, a genuine, bona fide ancient
site (as described on the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/[https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/castlerigg-stone-circle/]" target="_blank">English Heritage website</a> for readers who might wish
some background information as to its history), which naturally was appealing
given my ‘previous’ with the subject matter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">An on-site sketch duly took place and it has become this
record, almost 25 years hence, that forms the basis for the painting
(re)presented today, the reconnection with inspired as it has been by an
‘archaeological’ dig through the archive of sketchbooks (recalling its
existence as a fact) itself initiated by the recent discovery of another
Gorsedd stone circle in Acton Park on the way into Wrexham, but a couple of
miles from where is now home (it transpires that north Wales, and indeed the
wider country, is dotted with such formations), which has duly been visited and
photographed and is consequently on the back-burner as potential grist to the
drawing/painting mill. I might add that stone circles disappeared from the
artistic horizon after the curtailment of the Manchester enterprise and have
featured only to be photographed on a few occasions when revisiting Flint since
(blogged <a href="https://www.blogger.com/[https://aesthetesfoot.blogspot.com/search?q=stone+circle]" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So to the painting and the process of its making.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It was decided that the single drawing made in situ at the
Castlerigg circle would serve as the point of departure and, essentially, the
sole reference: I took no photographs on the occasion of being there and,
although there is a multitude of photographic evidence of Castlerigg available
online, not one image seemed to capture the scene from the viewpoint I’d
assumed to observe and draw. Such an image was sought so that it might support
the evidence I’d collected on the day, although photography, of course, that
monocular beast, will never (be able to) offer the same binocular visual
experience (let alone the multi-sensory one) of being present before the motif,
as was the case in this instance. Subjectivity is obviously also a factor,
however objective one might intend to be in the recording of such empirical
experience, in the act of drawing (whilst looking), thus my ‘memory’ of the
experience could be regarded, particularly allowing for a time-lapse of 25
years, as having only a limited reliability.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This being the case, it was taken as a positive that the
drawing and nothing more of real substance (save a glance at few photos
illustrating a sense of the general environment) would provide the means from
which to create the painting, that it would be the physical instantiation of
‘memory’ upon which I’d have to rely in the absence of any other recollection
(of which there really was none, specifically, other than a general knowledge
of the extreme mutability of the Lake District weather/light conditions and so
on that could be gleaned from memory and other drawings made during the field
trip).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>'Castlerigg Stone Circle, 4pm, 26/10/94'</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">charcoal, watercolour and pastel on 2 x A3 sheets of paper(landscape)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">At first, this seemed daunting - as readers familiar with
this blog and my work will know, paintings are habitually made from either
close, constant study of an arrangement of still life objects within a defined
domestic space, or otherwise from reference to life and familiar, lived
experience, supported by drawings (with the occasional photo as supporting
evidence or compositional inspiration), as in the ‘woodscapes’ I have
periodically painted over the last few years and to which I can refer either as
I paint or otherwise pop into as and when required to confirm certain details
of form, texture, colour, space, etc, as they are literally beyond the garden
fence at home/studio and accessible at all times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I decided to paint over an existing ‘failed’ canvas (this
one), another novelty, using its texture as the first physical layer, and
proceeded accordingly, to this end, a painting of a drawing of an empirical
experience, the making concrete of a memory of sorts, which might have a
certain ‘hauntological’ aspect (?).</span></div>
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featuring such objects as standing stones, seems a most appropriate vehicle to
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Following the previous entry, the latest painting to be brought to a conclusion features a different composition of the same subject matter and context, with but two of the collected 'Homepride Fred' figures rather than three and a slightly more 'measured'/geometrical approach applied to the representation of the patterned wallpaper and consideration of the placement of the objects in relation to (the figure to the left might be observed to be 'pinned' at the shoulders within the confines of an aspect of the pattern, for example), all being a bit more 'Uglowian' in conception, perhaps, which returns us to the original image to feature the Freds dating from almost two years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Again, the active observation of the play of natural light upon the surface of the objects, those fleeting, momentary 'flashes' that enliven the whole set-up, describing aspects of their form and nature, is <em>the</em> motivating factor in engaging with such a challenge and the hoped-for result is a convincing pictorial representation of such, a record of the environmental activity, the time spent looking and painting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Following the short interlude of the most recent pair of paintings (those based on the vintage Pifco electric hair trimmers packaging), we return to the familiar ground of the ongoing compositional exploration of selections from the stock of sawn cylinders of silver birch – again looking to the work of <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Edmund de Waal</strong> for a little inspiration – and the ‘homely’ environment of the still life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The particular objects selected on this occasion were from a batch not previously utilised and contemplated, being a little slimmer and in some cases shorter than those used up until now, thus more have been accommodated within the relatively compact dimensions of the 20″ x 16″ canvas, which represents a more-or-less life-sized arrangement of shelves and objects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Regular readers may recognise that I have long been enamoured of the work of <strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Edmund de Waal</strong> and certain of my paintings have reflected the influence of this artist on my own process of thinking and making (some of the ‘white pears’ series make this explicit, for example).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Thus the most recent painting to be brought to a conclusion, (re)presented here, can be said to be haunted by a de Waalian spirit. Another still life, it yet incorporates a significant element from subject matter explored in what essentially constitutes my alternative painting practice, i.e. the world of objects and forms in spaces beyond the domestic realm, in the form of a collection of cylinders of silver birch, between about 12 – 18cm in height, sawn from a length of discarded trunk found in the woods close to home. Such ‘white’ cylindrical objects pay a certain homage to de Waal’s familiar white porcelain pots and are arranged within a shelving unit that in effect resembles the vitrines in which he exhibits such collections of handmade objects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">That’s the background, anyway. What follows is the habitual process of ‘active contemplation’, first through a pencil drawing and subsequently, with slight compositional modifications in the interest of achieving a more harmonious visual balance (the sketch made obvious what wasn’t working that hadn’t occurred to the eye), in oil paint on canvas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The usual rules apply, of the communication of the physical nature of the objects and ‘tactile’ space and the making of the painting though the materiality of the medium, paint as paint and the painting itself as a discrete object before it resolves itself into a representation of the observed world. Far from being white, of course, the cylinders of silver birch each display shared and their own particular characteristics in terms of subtle earthy colouration (greens, ochres, siennas, umbers), as distinct from the purity of de Waal’s white porcelain objects, and light and shadow describes and differentiates the form of the shelving unit on and in which they stand, but it is to be hoped something of a dialogue is at least suggested with the influential source. Furthermore, by introducing such barely-modified natural objects into the realm of the still life, a dialogue is opened-up between the two genres of painting that effectively constitute my practice and continuing areas of exploration, the woodland, albeit mediated, encroaches into the domestic environment, outside meets inside.</span></div>
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