Colourscrape Blog

New series of work coming out encorporating industrial paints and metallic surfaces titled "Remescrape" to be exhibited on December 1st at Adam St Gallery, Charing Cross, London WC2N 6AA. All invites to the event contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Am safely back from Australia with a load of good ideas to channel into the work. I gained alot of inspiration from different colours and textures in the rock faces which occur naturally.The biggest piece of news i have to share, is that i am booked in to the Kerri Lowe Gallery in Sydney for a joint exhibition in July 2012. The gallery is a ceramic based gallery which hosts painters and sculptors. Its location is next to Sydney University in Newtown, about a 10 minute walk from Central Station and opposite "Goulds Books".Email me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to get placed on the invite list for the night.

Ebbisham Cente Epsom; September 27th; Joint exhibition

Caterham Open; September TBA; Joint exhibition

Food and Funfest; Ewell court house; Sunday October 3rd

Lots of new works will be exhibited at the events, all the work will be for sale on the day. I am going to use several new photos and one off prints. Hopefully i will have a series fom Australia ready to go also. Possibly  black and white charcoal series returning to my original landscape roots, I intend to try and incorporate some Aboriginal culture into the colour works which i will do over there. I have looked at several Aboriginal art galleries over there and have lined up a day with some artists over there, hopefully with the intention of exhibiting next year in Sydney.  Also in September i will do some more live painting stuff and risk getting physically assulted in the community, either that or some more "aren't you ashamed" comments

Stratford Fringe Festival

 

Painting live is something iv'e never done before. Suprising really. The exhibition had ran all week in the Civic Hll and had several visitors come and have a look around, i had my sister help me hang it which was lovely as i don't get to see too much of her. The work was the bulk of the "colourscrape" series, lots which is not on this website as it hasn't been photographed yet......So on the Friday me and Ambs travelled up on the rattler from Marylebone to Stratford nice and late with tons of stuff, we definately need a car. Stayed in a guesthouse and got picked up by Marion the organiser in the morning ready to get painting in the Town Square. Realised later that we should move down to the main square as that where all the action was happening, lots of interest straight away and loads of questions. My favourite being the one about wether i was ashamed of myself for painting in an abstract fashion, when finding out the man who was asking worked for the council and picked up dog shit for a living. I guess art critics come in all shapes and sizes. I did however sell a painting at the show and got to show all my Black and white sketches off. The best hing that came out all of this is that me and the collective will be organising all the visual art aspects for the show next year. So will be looking for artists who can't afford the big money lots of venues are after, and to get involved next year, especially those from the local area. So get in touch if you are reading this and in due course i will send you a pack. On a final note, i need to mention how dedicated Janey and Garrick are alongside Marion in organising all of this and letting me into their lives.

Sam

The Stratford Fringe festival is up and Running this weekend. Head to the Civic Hall and you can veiw the majority of the Colourscrape series. Then on Saturday 12th June, im exhibiting in the Town Square and painting "live" for people to see. look at www.satratfordfringe.co.uk for updates

All steam ahead now to get ready for the Stratford fringe festival. Am really excited about this happening. I intend to be there paintng for the public to observe and ask questions. I am exhibiting severl of my new pieces along with sketchbooks and drawings. I am also hopefully going to do an interview with Sratford Radio on the weekend. I think i will take my CD player with me and play some music to work to in the daytime and head to the bar in the evening.

Some photos of the Exhibition. The restaurant was quite busy at the time so i did not get everyones photos in.

The exhibition is now up showing works from Christian Doubble, Eddie Aidoo and Chris King also. Tiffinbites is closed at the weekend and can only be viewed in the week. Its address is Russia Row(off Cheapside) St Pauls is the nearest tube. I also have a page now on the Saatchi website at www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery look for Sam Peacock

Exhibition up and running. Have also got a page on the Saatchi online gallery. Look at www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery and type in Sam Peacock. Exhibition at Tiffinbites is not open on the weekend however. So if your planning to go its weektime only.

I thought it was time to update the site for what has been a busy month. Four artists Eddie Aidoo, Chris King, Christian Doubble and myself are exhibiting at Tifinbites, which is a contemporary asian eatery and drinking venue a stones throw from St Pauls Cathedral for a month beginning Monday 12th April and finishing Friday 12th May. From there we are being joined by other Artists when we will exhibit and attempt to sell work in Brick lane market on Sundays. I believe we are going to sell a mix of A5 prints and cards along with originals. All together i believe there are going to be Se7en of us forming a small collective.

Over the summer i will be exhibiting at the Stratford Fringe Festival, although tht is not completely confirmed as of yet. That will run for a week beginning the week of 7th June running until the 12th June.

 

Have uploaded some new images to the website. There are 19 images in all on there now. All telling a different story. A massive thankyou to Chris King for all his help on this. The next thing is now to exhibit these as a retrospective of sorts, as they are all different sizes and some are on steel sheets. Should look quite interesting. The profile picture here is the most recent photo anyone has of me.

 

The beginning of the new painting, as the conversation takes place. lots of new ideas appear. You could quite easily liken the creation of a painting to the construction of a city somewhere, lots of layers are applied and throughout the city, you can still see the origins of what was there before. Lots of these colours and imges will still be there at the end.

Had a cracking evening with a photographer friend last night discussing possible opportunities to expand the empire. Am blessed with knowing so many good people through painting, Christian Doubble, Eddie Aidoo, Amy Cokerton, Chris King, Kelly Black to name a few. Began working on a new piece today, just layering some different colours on top of one another, watching patterns develop within the composure, that conversation which takes several dips and peaks throughout its formative existence.

 

Was trying to do some prints of this the other day but havent found a good supplier yet.

Would love to know how to upload photos to this

 

This will be a blog page to update visitors to the site about what i am currently doing regarding painting. At the weekend me and my good friend Christian Doubble, another Artist from South London went to Dungeness on a painting expidition. We spent the day in the rain and driving winds before heading to the nearest pub for a pint. Christian asked the bartender "can i have a cappucino please" the bartender retorted "erm, nah sorry, we only do coffee here....your from London aren't you?"