Category Archives: painting

My paintings are breeding

My paintings are breeding by This Window
My paintings are breeding, a photo by This Window on Flickr.

They just keep happening. In reality these have taken me weeks to produce but at least the walls of the gallery will be covered! Maybe?

I have begun a series of paintings (screenprints) ready for my exhibition in the ‘Long Gallery’ (West Buckland School, Barnstaple, North Devon). The loose idea for these images is based around the title ‘Beauty and the Beast’ – the ‘beauty‘ will be a large ape. This will coincide with a workshop I am giving on how to create woodcuts.

Beauty and the Beast – painting 2011, a painting by This Window What is the relationship between the woman and the ape? Who is the beast? …

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 Hamilton A landscape of soft focus and toilet paper – a turgid landscape. Collotype and Screenprint – text and image. A  remembered exhibition.
  • Rediscovering the printing process after nearly 40 years has been an interesting process – disappointingly modern inks are not as rich in colour (earthy colours are very plastic like) and modern waterbased inks don’t become part of the surface, they sit on it, which is incredibly frustrating – the reason I took up printing in the first place was because of the absorbed flatness of the pigments.
  • I have also had the urge to do a series of paintings based around the title ‘In God We Trust’ but that will have to wait.
  • The act of being creative is a love hate thing – The Beauty and The Beast
    someone fetch a priest (ref. David Bowie)

    Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête) is a traditional fairy tale. The first published version of the fairy tale was a rendition by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune américaine, et les contes marins in 1740. The best-known written version was an abridgement of her work published in 1756 by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, in Magasin des enfants, ou dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et plusieurs de ses élèves; an English translation appeared in 1757. The tale has perhaps been made most recently famous by the retelling in the 1991 Disney film.

      In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. liberated 12:47, April 7, 2011, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beauty_and_the_Beast&oldid=422255721

  • ‘Stoned Moon Series’ was Rauschenberg’s ambitious response to the American space program and the landmark Apollo 11 mission that put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface in July 1969. At the invitation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Rauschenberg witnessed the momentous launch of Apollo 11 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.’

     

  • Last November I had some simple answers to a few simple questions I’d asked Lidwine returned – I was forwarded this YouTube video a few days ago and decided to give it a polite nonchalant glance (I’d had a few beers and was a bit bored and thought ‘Entertain Me‘!) – I began to listen and guess what it was charming (a pretty naff word to use) I was captured. The interview…
Nonsense by This Window

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Screenprint - 2011 by This Window
Screenprint – 2011, a photo by This Window on Flickr.

Exhibition of Prints, Drawings and Paintings by
Peter Bright (aka This Window)
150 Building, West Buckland School

Monday 6th June – Friday 1st July (open 0900 to 1600 Mon. to Fri.)
Old images and ideas revisited and recycled – re-executed in print and paint. A body of work based around “Beauty and the Beast” a classic tale of love, rejection and prejudice, where the beauty is the beast and the beast is the beauty.  An  allegory, a symbolic representation or a metaphor for my feelings towards ART.
Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête) is a traditional fairy tale. The first published version of the fairy tale was a rendition by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune américaine, et les contes marins in 1740. The best-known written version was an abridgement of her work published in 1756 by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, in Magasin des enfants, ou dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et plusieurs de ses élèves; an English translation appeared in 1757.
Variants of the tale are known across Europe. In France, for example, Zémire et Azor is an operatic version of the story of Beauty and the Beast written by Marmontel and composed by Grétry in 1771. It had enormous success well into the 19th century. It is based on the second version of the tale. The tale has perhaps been made most recently famous by the retelling in the 1991 Disney film.

Beauty and the Beast. (2011, April 4). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 12:47, April 7, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beauty_and_the_Beast&oldid=422255721

 

Extraction now on iTunes

‘Extraction‘ was recorded for EE-Tapes of Belgium in 1989; the version available on iTunes, Amazon, Napster etc. is a remix by Jake Bright. Part of the original recording was made in a bathroom and features Nicola Mumford (the vocalist from Finish The Story) …
http://thiswindowstuff.blogspot.com/

Combine Painting

What happend to the space age? by This Window
Painting and print on canvas 16″ x 20″

The term mixed media has always made me want to reach for the puke bucket – I prefer the expression ‘Combine Painting’.

I have always been a hoarder, newspaper clippings, postcards etc. It is only now that I have decided to recycle them. After finding a yellowing newspaper cutting I had saved in 1969 I have decided to do a painting about it.

Juxtaposing images, either as a collage or printing is not simply a decorative process it is a complicated exercise. The mind always tries to create a narrative between images. The juxtaposition of arbitrary marks, color, photographs etc. will always tease and trick the mind into rationalizing what it is trying to process and attempt to make physical world references – in other words make sense of what it is trying to analyze. Continue reading ?

Exhibition of Prints, Drawings and Paintings by
Peter Bright

150 Building, West Buckland School

Monday 6th June – Friday 1st July (open 0900 to 1600 Mon. to Fri.)
Old images and ideas revisited and recycled – re-executed in print and paint. A body of work based around “Beauty and the Beast” a classic tale of love, rejection and prejudice, where the beauty is the beast and the beast is the beauty. An allegory, a symbolic representation or a metaphor for my feelings towards ART.

Quotes: “Take up a radical position with Peter Bright, who is borderline anarchic in his thinking and equally bold in his art.” Andrea Charters … Continue reading ?

This exhibition will coincide with a printmaking course I will be giving. Read more…

Contact me for more details.

‘Stoned Moon Series was Rauschenberg’s ambitious response to the American space program and the landmark Apollo 11 mission that put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface in July 1969. At the invitation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Rauschenberg witnessed the momentous launch of Apollo 11 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.’

What happend to the space age?

What happend to the space age? by This Window
Painting and print on canvas 16″ x 20″

The term mixed media has always made me want to reach for the puke bucket – I prefer the expression ‘Combine Painting’.

I have always been a hoarder, newspaper clippings, postcards etc. It is only now that I have decided to recycle them.

Juxtaposing images, either as a collage or printing is not simply a decorative process it is a complicated exercise. The mind always tries to create a narrative between images. The juxtaposition of arbitrary marks, color, photographs etc. will always tease and trick the mind into rationalizing what it is trying to process and attempt to make physical world references – in other words make sense of what it is trying to analyze. Continue reading ?

Exhibition of Prints, Drawings and Paintings by
Peter Bright

150 Building, West Buckland School

Monday 6th June – Friday 1st July (open 0900 to 1600 Mon. to Fri.)
Old images and ideas revisited and recycled – re-executed in print and paint. A body of work based around “Beauty and the Beast” a classic tale of love, rejection and prejudice, where the beauty is the beast and the beast is the beauty. An allegory, a symbolic representation or a metaphor for my feelings towards ART.

Quotes: “Take up a radical position with Peter Bright, who is borderline anarchic in his thinking and equally bold in his art.” Andrea Charters … Continue reading ?

This exhibition will coincide with a printmaking course I will be giving. Read more…

Contact me for more details.