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Broomhill exhibition extended

Topiary for Beginners

Following sales, this exhibition has been extended

Address: Broomhill Art Hotel, Barnstaple, Devon, EX31 4EX
Website: www.broomhillart.co.uk
Email: info@broomhillart.co.uk
Telephone: 01271 850262
Access: Good

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Painting for exhibition

Painting for Broomhill exhibition, 55″ x 55″ oil on canvas

‘Walk Away or Jump’

Inspired by a cliff walk with one of Robert Rauschenberg’s assistants in 1979. During 1979 I was in a band called ‘The Urge’, who were discovered by an A&R man from Beggars Banquet Records, who saw us play at my degree show at Exeter College of Art. We ended up supporting ‘Bauhaus’, ‘Adam and the Ants’, ‘The Pack’ and many other Post Punk heroes. We were offered a record contract and the A&R man became our manager and Rauschenberg’s former assistant also became an important member of our team. Read more…

My Big Day Out

Country Mouse is going to the Big City tomorrow!
I’m really looking forward to the BBC Writers and Agents Party at Skylon – it’s always good fun and great to catch up with old friends and colleagues from the various shows I’ve worked on over the years. Last time I caught up with David Nicholls, and hope he’s there – I don’t know anyone who hasn’t completely fallen in love with ‘One Day’.

On my way I’m hoping to dive into the Fiona Banner installation at the Tate which has had a mixed reaction – a huge Harrier Hawk hung in the Duveen gallery. ‘At the time harrier jump jets were at the cutting edge of technology but to me they were like dinosaurs, prehistoric, from a time before words’ says Fiona. Whether you are into this kind of art or not, you should still take a look – it’s free, after all.
Now, all I have to remember is wine, water, wine, water …

Chablis Diaries

The Orion Publishing Group and Hotel du Vin/Malmaison hotel are delighted to announce their collaboration on a “Writers in Residence” project that will run from July through to November 2010.
The tour kicks off with Veronica Henry who will be in residence at the Hotel du Vin in Poole and the Hotel du Vin in Brighton. She says, ‘I’m absolutely thrilled to be writer-in-residence at the Hotel du Vin. I remember going to the first Hotel du Vin when it opened in Winchester: I was enchanted, and have remained a huge fan ever since. We both strive for a similar style – quintessentially English escapism with a touch of wit – so I think it will be a very productive collaboration, and the perfect environment to find inspiration.’ Her current project, THE BEACH HUT, is published as an Orion paperback original on 22 July.

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Old Paintings for sale (?)

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The constant questioning and declassification of what art is and what the content is has lead to this so called crisis in painting (there as always been a crisis in painting) – Painting is dead – the exponents of Conceptual Art tried to destroy the art object but failed – thought and the idea is the object. The primary aims of Conceptual Art in the 1960’s was to carry out a theoretical examination of ‘art’ and through understanding propose ‘concepts as art’.

In all cases the created image lies about its representation. A representation/illusion takes on more realness than the actual physical object, the object then becomes a metaphor for the created illusion. This in turn creates an additional reference for the object, an extra visual adjective eg. ‘The sky was very Turneresque.’ Turner’s illusion becomes a metaphor for the real thing, which vividly describes [in words] the actual sky. The concrete object cannot say everything about itself – it has a limited vocabulary and is unable to say what is required of it, it is on many levels mute. Read more...