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Nancy Spungen – Screen Print

Nancy Spungen - Screenprint

The Screen print above was selected for an exhibition at the ASWARA Gallery, National Arts & Heritage Academy (ASWARA), Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA during February 1 – 29 2012 and is now part of their private collection.

Prints dispatched will be similar to the one illustrated – each print is original so variations of size (approximately A3) and colouring will occur. Each print will be signed by the artist Peter Bright (aka This Window).

Screen print over ink wash. Cost (postage free) £15.00




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.

Press cutting below about similar works. (click on image to read article)

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Painting out is painting in. #printmaking

I have begun to work over a screen printed canvas (the painting below is the one I have reworked) in the studios of West Buckland School, to illustrate/show a student how to edit a painting. It is important to remove all the noise from a image to get to a meaningful statement – too much clutter, to much overkill detracts the eye from the real deal.

The image above is a photograph I took with a Pentax Spotmatic 35mm camera using ‘old stock’ (March 2000) Agfacolor HDC 200 film. My current preoccupation with 35mm film photography as taught me to look at things again – capturing the odd moment or peculiar juxtaposition. The colours and layout are similar to the painting I have created from the screen printed painting below (I will post the finished painting image soon).

“Reflections Ilfracombe Harbour Jubilee Day 2012?

The composition of this painting is based on a Union Jack and is a combination of screen printing and painting.

The reflections in the harbour in Ilfracombe always amaze me – the dirty sea water mixed with the vivid colours of the reflected boats, the bobbing flotsam and jetsam, the sunlight and oil spills.

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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? …

Number 2 in the charts!

This site (thiswindow.org) is now  Number 2 in the Technorati Top 100 Arts blogs  and  Number 46 in the Top 100 for Living. This is fantastic news and thank you for finding time to visit!

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) …
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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.