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Framed Allergy

I have just collected a painting from the framers. “Allergy #11” was started in November 2003 and completed in April 2011. This painting was originally created for a solo exhibition in The Queen’s Theatre during 2003 but was not exhibited due to lack of wall space.

20110720-085405.jpg1978: I once had a girlfriend called Anne who wore ‘Charlie’ perfume. Every time we came close I sneezed. This was not conducive to a passionate affair. Her ‘big’ permed hair and ‘page three’ figure was always out of reach, until we discovered I was allergic to her bottled smell….later we discovered I was allergic to latex.

Two 40?x30? paintings for £300.00  A chance to acquire two paintings for £300.00.  These images were feature in National Publications and were exhibited and painted in 2004 Both paintings have been professionally framed. ‘Allergies 2? Following on from the ‘Allergy Series’ I began to think … Continue reading ?

Painting Charity Auction

Lot 1 : The choice of one of three paintings or drawings by Gerald Moore. (These will be exhibited in St. Peter’s Church, West Buckland from 15th August until 11th September 2011.

Minimum Bid £200

The three paintings are part of the unique Collection of the Works of Gerald Moore and are due to be exhibited permanently soon in a London Gallery. Read more…

Gerald Moore‘Dog in Landscape’


Yahoo is dead long live the Bing There is something about the Yahoo’s Site Explorer that makes me feel comfortable, like a pair of well worn slippers. It is with great sadness that I read this great optimization tool is to be given the bullet. If you compare Bing’s equivalent set of tools – quite frankly there are massive gaps. Yahoo is dead long live the Bing.

North Devon Art Exhibition

Being the ‘Festival Director of Art’ means that ultimately I will offend someone when I don’t select them – who needs to be popular? I would prefer the title curator, which is technically what I have been for over three years.

From the Archives: Your Art at the West Buckland Festival (Thursday September 18th and ended on Sunday September 21st) began with an evening preview on the Thursday in St Peter’s Church. There were dozens of works of art – paintings, sculptures, photographs, … Continue reading ?

In contemporary art, the title curator is given to a person who better produces knowledge and better picture of any situation. This might involve finding a strategy for display. Thematic, conceptual and formal approaches are all prevalent. In addition to selecting works, the curator often is responsible for writing labels, catalog essays, and other supporting content for the exhibition.

I am slowly getting the list together of artist who will be invited to exhibit at the West Buckland Festival in September 2011.

The aim of the The Gallery exhibition, which runs during the West Buckland Festival, is promote selected, amateur and professional artist living within the dispersed communities of North Devon and beyond. Past exhibitions have received critical acclaim and have been remarkably successful for artists and visitors. Diversity has been the success of these exhibitions, with entries ranging from textiles, painting, carving, printmaking and ceramics etc.

Exhibitors are all artists and crafts people from North Devon. Artists are invited to enter Works of Art that are new or that have not been exhibited before. We expect that there will be up to 100 Works of Art to view and enjoy. Many Works will be on sale and can be acquired during the Preview and throughout the Festival weekend.

Devon Artists DirectoryNormal Conditions of The Gallery ExhibitionWest Buckland Festival reserves the right to hang the exhibition as they think appropriate and to refuse to exhibit a work if it is regarded as being unsuitable.West Buckland Festival cannot be held liable for any damage or loss, so those exhibiting are exhibiting at their own risk.West Buckland Festival have prioritized original work over prints.Work is offered for sale but a commission of 20% will be charged (deducted form sale price). The total cost of work must be paid to the festival who will issue artists with the balance less commission.


For a full list of exhibitions, workshops and evening performances please visit: It’s Cabaret Time! An all star cast hosted by your MC JONATHAN RALPH 7:30 -10:00 pm in St Peter’s Church with HARRY THE PIANO ‘‘the best pianist in the civilized world’ – Jonathan RossContinue reading ?


This Window – ‘Cassette Culture’: Notes on exhibition of paintings and prints: “Where are the references for my next exhibition? Action Painting – Pollock . Print dribbled paint. Soft pink landscapes (1980 ) Richard…”

Links to paintings for sale

Detail of paintingThis is a detail of a print/painting from the June exhibition at West Buckland School. This is from the ‘Beauty and the Beast’ series.

Sometimes it is difficult to work out when a print is a print or a painting is a painting. There are painters who use printing techniques and processes in their work – so what is the definition?

Below are links to paintings for sale on Morgue Gallery

Guy the Gorilla – painting for sale

Whatever Happened to the Space Age £51.12 Original painting by Peter Bright. Media: Painting and Screen Print on canvas, signed and dated 2011. Size: 400mm x 400mm Buy here ARTIST + S T A T E M E N T … Continue reading ?

Nancy Spungen – painting

Whatever Happened to the Space Age £57.17 Original painting by Peter Bright. Media: Painting and Screen Print on canvas, signed and dated 2011. Size: 500mm x 400mm Buy here… ARTIST + S T A T E M E N T … Continue reading ?

Painting – Sid Vicious – Man on Moon

Whatever Happened to the Space Age £57.17 Original painting by Peter Bright. Media: Painting and Screen Print on canvas, signed and dated 2011. Size: 500mm x 400mm buy here… ARTIST + S T A T E M E N T … Continue reading ?

Sid Vicious painting

Whatever Happened to the Space Age £57.17 Original painting by Peter Bright. Media: Painting and Screen Print on canvas, signed and dated 2011.Size: 500mm x 400mm buy here… We are in the top 5 blogs We  ( Sitemaps_xml ) are … Continue reading ?

Guy the Gorilla – painting for sale

Whatever Happened to the Space Age?

Whatever Happened to the Space Age

£51.12

Original painting by Peter Bright.Media: Painting and Screen Print on canvas, signed and dated 2011.Size: 400mm x 400mmBuy here

ARTIST + S T A T E M E N T …
Guy the Gorilla (May 30, 1946 – 1978) was a Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) which was London Zoo‘s famous resident, something of a celebrity in the 1960s–70s and was often profiled on kids TV shows and natural history productions. Guy the Gorilla was one of London Zoo’s best-loved animals.He arrived at the zoo on 5 November 1947,  Guy Fawkes Night, hence his name. He was a tiny baby, weighing just 23 lb (10 kg) and holding a small tin hot-water bottle. Guy was the replacement for the zoo’s previous gorilla, Meng, who died in 1941. Guy was captured in the French Cameroons on behalf of Paris Zoo and was traded for a tiger from Calcutta Zoo. It was organized that London Zoo would have Guy. The Paris Zoo Director sent instructions to their game department in West Africa to find a suitable female to mate with him.London sent a request to a variety of animal dealers and zoos worldwide to find a mate, and in 1969 the zoo was offered Lomie, a five year old female who had been living in nearby Chessington Zoo. She lived in the old Monkey House in London Zoo for a year before being introduced to Guy. When the new Ape and Monkey House, the Michael Sobell Pavilion, was opened in 1971, Guy and Lomie were finally introduced. However, after 25 years of isolation, it was too late; they never produced any offspring.Lowland gorillas are the world’s largest primates. Males can weigh between 140 and 275 kg. His dimensions as silverback were measured in 1966 and 1971: he weighed 520 lb (240 kg), was 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) tall, and had an arm span of 9 ft (2.7 m). His upper arm had a circumference of 23.5 in (58 cm), his thighs 28 in (70 cm), and his neck 36 in (90 cm).His appearance was fearsome, yet his nature was very gentle; when small birds flew into his cage, he reportedly lifted them up on his hands and examined them softly. This gentleness is said to have been a major part of his great popularity.

Statue of Guy the Gorilla in London Zoo

Image via Wikipedia

Guy died aged over 30 years, in 1978 of a heart attack during an operation on his infected teeth. By this time he had become an icon. Public awareness of animal behavior had been growing, thanks to the ever-improving natural history programmes on television, while studies of wild apes by scientists like Jane Goodall, Biruté Galdikas and Diane Fossey were changing the public’s attitude towards primates.The Natural History Museum head taxidermist at the time, Arthur Hayward, was given the task of modelling and mounting Guy’s skin. After nearly nine months of work, the magnificent re-creation of Guy was put on display at the Natural History Museum in November 1982. Years later Guy was taken out of public display and moved into the scientific study collections. As of October 2006, Guy is on display in the ‘Weird and Wonderful section’ of the redeveloped Weston Park Museum, Sheffield.In 1982 he was commemorated by a bronze statue by William Timym,  located near the main entrance by the Michael Sobell Pavilion for Monkeys and Apes, where Guy spent his final years.

Guy the Gorilla. (2011, February 25). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 09:37, April 3, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guy_the_Gorilla&oldid=415896833

London Zoo page to the memory of GuyI was rummaging through old boxes of stuff and found the newspaper cutting of an astronaut on the moon – yellowed and faded – it still makes my heart flutter. I wish I’d been to the moon.

‘BOLD and arresting artwork will catch the eye at West Buckland School this month. The striking exhibition of prints, drawings and paintings is by Woolacombe artist, Peter Bright.In it, Peter revisits images and ideas from his past and re-execute them in print and paint. ‘ 
The picture of the astronaut inspired the paintings on canvas, on the theme of What Happened To The Space Age?

Entertainment North Devon I was really pleased to see that  an article(?) about the next exhibition and printmaking workshop was featured on to the website arts and entainment…