Rickshawhouse Exhibition

Taken from the Rickshawhousegallery exhibition "four corners of the world" on March 17th in Southwark SE1. Nice to see lots of peope at the gallery on the night. The works are the most recent of all work produced recently. Not the best of photos however, It looks a lot better in the flesh. Materials are a mix of oils on steel sheets measuring 60cm/100cm except the 2nd and 4th panel which are on plastic.

 

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

 

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?"