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Gallery of crap

Images and photographs are memories of what was and can no longer be.

Samuel Underwood 1881 – 1939

Samuel had a milk cart, which was pulled by a faithful horse. He was an asthmatic and Mary was always concerned when he was over due home. On one occasion he was terribly late and panic set into the Underwood … Continue reading ?

Carol - Scilly Isles beach 1977

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Allergy – Napalm Exmoor

Over the next few days there will be some paintings added to our catalogue based on Allergies. These are new paintings painted during 2011 by Peter Bright.

The poastcard above is from the exhibition at the Landmark Theatre, Ilfracombe, Devon in 2007 and included the paintings Napalm Exmoor National Park. The six landscapes that form of the core of this exhibition were painted from memory. I tried to execute them ‘en plein air’ but it was the gorse season – no sooner was my easel erected … Continue reading ?

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Exhibition hung – North Devon Journal

I can’t believe how long it took to hang this show – 21 paintings, prints, woodcuts and screen prints. It is always one of those moments when you have your pants down and think “Why do I do this?”

‘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, pictured above, on the theme of What Happened To The Space Age?’

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My Next Exhibition

These Are the Exmoor Landscapes I Couldn’t Paint

(Oil paint on board)

The six landscapes that form of the core of this exhibition were painted from memory. I tried to execute them ‘en plein air’ but it was the gorse season – no sooner was my easel erected than I fell prey to a severe asthma attack. After several puffs of Ventolin I gathered up all my paraphernalia, shoved it into the back of my Landrover and returned to the sterile safety of my own home, where I finished them off. My original idea was to follow the Monet concept and paint the vista at a given time (so the light, shadows etc. are time specific) – but I would be dead by now. So I gave myself a time limit of 90 minutes to complete the six indoors. I’m not a lover of landscape paintings – these images are a reaction to the environment, physical and visual. In truth I would be happier if Exmoor was concreted over and turned into an out of town shopping complex – I would get more pleasure from the space if it was.

Weedkiller Over Clematis

(Oil paint on canvas)

The fashion for gardening, for an asthmatic, is a cruel joke. We have been ‘doing’ the garden at our home and I made the mistake of planting several climbing plants – I now know I have another contact allergy! Yet again concrete is the only true solution to my problems. The larger paintings in this exhibition are based on the colours these climbing plants go when you spray them with weedkiller.