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Framed


Postcard for exhibition
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“Take up a radical position with Peter Bright, who is borderline anarchic in his thinking and equally bold in his art.”  Andrea Charters

“I keep thinking about George Braque who learnt artificial wood graining from his time as a decorator; the story goes that he taught Picasso and these painted renderings of wood surface became a staple of cubism”     John Myers
Yesterday was the last day for getting my work to the framers. I have woken up this morning and completely changed my mind about the whole exhibition – oooops!
‘Beauty and the Beast’ an exhibition of prints and paintings by Peter Bright. Monday 6th June to Friday 1st July 2011 in The Long Gallery, 150 Building, West Buckland School, North Devon. Exhibition open 9am to 4pm Monday to Friday.
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Print on paper of gorilla and church part of the work to be exhibited in the Long Gallery at West Buckland School…Continue reading ?

drawing for allergy exhibition 2004

Fish can kill me.

When I was very small (maybe 3 or 4 years old) my grandfather, who lost the sight of one eye from a bullet fired by a German sniper (fortunately not a very good one) during the Battle of the Somme in World War 1, wiped my face with the corner of his apron, an apron he had used to wipe his filleting knife on. He was a grocery shopkeeper who specialized in wet fish.

I can remember the instantaneous pain and swelling in my eyes, the panic-driven breathlessness, the weeping blindness.

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Screenprint – 2011


Screenprint – 2011
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I am slowly getting to grips with the images I need for my exhibition in June – it is slow but I am getting there.  I have already taken three canvases to the framers – the three are going to be joined together to create a triptych.

The painting illustrated was begun in 2003 as part of an exhibition I did based on allergies – I am allergic to flowers and certain perfumes. This is slightly ironic as I am suffering with hay fever and as a result have managed to get an eye and throat infection – antibiotic tablets for the throat and antibiotic drops for my eye.

Evolve 150 @

West Buckland School, Barnstaple, Devon EX32 0SX

Saturday 11th June 2011 – 10-1.30pm

Room: Print Room in the 150 Building

Tutor: Peter Bright

Course Aims:

A hands on introduction to woodcuts and how to create a series of prints. Within the time frame it is hoped that each participating member will be able to create a finished image. The techniques shown will be simple ‘kitchen table’ processes that will be easy to replicate at home.

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Equipment needed: All materials are provided.

Additional costs: No additional costs.

Refreshments: Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided.

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Location: West Buckland School, Barnstaple. As you turn onto the school site, take the left turning to the car park. The 150 building is located adjacent to the main car park, and the front door is at the far end of the building as you walk towards it.

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Cost: £28.75. There is a 15% discount to current WBS parents and staff, and would ask that all course places are pre-booked.

Drawing from life

Abstract painters should never underestimate the importance of drawing from life. The rules for form, proportion, scale, composition are the same in every painting discipline.
There are various ways of making Paintings to recipes, each becoming a question of process and discovery, controlling chance, arranging colour with simple brush strokes, dragging or pouring paint across the surface to reveal a vast range range of effects. The act of painting can be reduced to its most simple and material elements, new materials can be discovered and played with……Is this really painting?….. what is the process/purpose of the creation? Behind the rheteoric and bullshit there must be a reason….otherwise YCRE8.

Tuesday 17th May 1977

“which will show me I can work from the landscape. This is something that I have felt is too over powering, too difficult for me to undertake but even after today I’m picking up little tricks. Tricks are I’m sure what landscape painting is all about.”

 

Going back to the basic skills of drawing is an interesting excursion – a journey I’m not sure I will complete. Drawing a life model for the first times in decades was a bit daunting but old tricks and shortcuts were soon remembered and in many respects drawing is a bit like riding a bicycle. Read more…

Gauguin, Bernard, Cage, Richter

Here we are sat in the the cafe at the Tate waiting for lunch before going to see the Gauguin exhibition – only 30 years late for my thesis!

There were many artists who were trying to claim freedom from nature, to allow themselves the pleasures of more self expression but who were held back by the simple fact that man himself was tied down with his links to nature. A break from naturalism was not to materialize until some twenty years later with the birth pangs of abstract art. The steps these artists of the 1880?s were looking for was a break from observed representation. Paris was a hotbed of ideas within the young educated (or being educated) middle class. Symbolism and its search for new the boundaries of creativity within literature and poetry began to point the way for these young men, their almost post modernist approach to their art looked to steal ideas from every form of intellectual discipline. These painters were a clique and were accused by their contemporaries of being too intellectual to be serious painters.  Gauguin meet one of these young mavericks (Emile Bernard) in his Pont Aven period and embraced the younger mans theories.
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As much as I am a massive fan of Gauguin the highlight of my visit to Tate Modern was looking at the six Richter paintings, ‘John Cage’.
The urge and joy of letting paint drag n drop is…?
The Cage Paintings were conceived as a single coherent group, and displayed for the first time at the Venice Biennale in 2007. Their titles, Cage (1)-(6), pay homage to the American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912-1992). In his ‘Lecture on Nothing’, Cage famously declared “I have nothing to say and I’m saying it.” Richter is equally suspicious of ideologies and any claim to absolute truth. He shies away from giving psychological interpretations to his paintings, preferring to allow viewers and critics to make up their own minds.