Winter Art Expo Dorset 2020

Winter Art Expo Dorset 2020 Winter Art Expo showcasing 15 international artists, painters, sculptors and photographers. All work is for sale and 10% goes to the charity Koestler Arts.

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'Falling Light' by Nigel Slight. Exhibited at WinterArtExpoDorset2020.My interpretation: golden book, thinker's chair - ...
16/02/2021

'Falling Light' by Nigel Slight.
Exhibited at WinterArtExpoDorset2020.
My interpretation: golden book, thinker's chair - the book is full of all the best questions ever asked and all the best answers ever tried and tested. And it's still hanging......a multitude of possibles, time and space entwined, the swing unstoppable. Gilles Deleuze's fold, 'le pli', always comes to mind.
But today it hit me in quite a different way. Today it's pure gold and it represents kindness. Kindness is priceless.

My biggest igam-ogam.Blame my older sister (I am utterly grateful).On the matter of how to educate her children, she tra...
09/02/2021

My biggest igam-ogam.
Blame my older sister (I am utterly grateful).
On the matter of how to educate her children, she trashed out theory and counter argument over more than a year, exchanging with David Deutsch and his educating philosophy Taking Children Seriously (TCS). Now considering life without school she had, to that point, like most of us, imagined an (uncomfortable) wooden desk and chair was the place where children must be to learn, with an adult dispensing knowledge of their choice (or worse, as in the UK, as laid down by a National Curriculum!). David Deutsch engaged generously (he met his match) and she subsequently sailed through Fabric of Reality (while I....err).
Moving swiftly on: when I started exhibiting at England&Co Gallery, I was struggling to write my artist's statement. My paintings, it was said, were 'outsiderish' and had a 'childlike' quality. Both compliments, I'd found a way to write my piece.
So why, if I am to take 'childlike' as a compliment (Picasso saw it as a thing to aim for creatively), do we continue to coerce and assume adult power over children? We can't have it both ways. 'Childish' or 'childishness' are often used as an insult. Language needs to develop in line with respecting childhood. 'Childism' is a relatively new word....
David Deutsch lays it all out with fine Popperian argument through TCS.
Pictures are recent occupations by our unschooled 13 year old.
Letter to a Friend. Stamp(fairly confident it's not me).
Beanbag Hat.
Valentine Flowers (an order nearly completed for delivery soon!)

Cadmium red oil paint - the very best quality which I usually can't afford - is one of my favourite colours to work with...
06/02/2021

Cadmium red oil paint - the very best quality which I usually can't afford - is one of my favourite colours to work with, but this post came about because we had big fat chips for supper.
Reaching for the plastic bottle of ketchup brought up memories of some smart red design.
1. 'Double Ketchup', (detail)by the photorealist painter Ralph Goings.
If you like vintage cars or condiments, check out this artist!
2. Argosy Ware Melamex small red plate (with dachshund playing rugby and Private Eye?) 1960's.
3. Plastic red stacking chairs - (from 1970's?), photograph by Lyn. Anybody who came to our art sessions will know these chairs well. They were never meant to be sat on in a rain soaked, muddy garden.....

I've always liked this Dürer painting of Christ (c.1500) - the way he's looking straight out and painted himself to fi...
03/02/2021

I've always liked this Dürer painting of Christ (c.1500) - the way he's looking straight out and painted himself to find the image. It holds so many possible emotions. Some see it as confrontational, possibly because it was quite a dare to paint yourself as Christ - you were in danger of blaspheming! With my 21st century eye I see openness, directness, trust - something thoughtful as if much thinking has brought a slight sheen to the surface of the skin, a tension in the right temple. I see him as earnest without being sombre, youth's touch of longing with a kind of, 'Here I am'.
This post is a cheer to the wonder of youth and shows David, Reuben, Willow and Theo, one or two of the incredible young people I am lucky to know.

'Megalopolis V. (Future Proof)'Artist: HodieYear: 20901967Photograph by Brendan Buesnel A favourite piece from WinterAr...
01/02/2021

'Megalopolis V. (Future Proof)'
Artist: Hodie
Year: 20901967
Photograph by Brendan Buesnel
A favourite piece from WinterArtExpoDorset2020, a nest of the future. When the eggs crack, what will come out.....? A further heart-in-mouth moment is seeing one's own reflection, warped and buckled - shifting in the surface of the eggs.
The square nest was extracted from an ancient Rayburn!

Seedling thoughts.I first saw these gouache paintings, 14x18", some 15 years ago. Then I thought of them as quite primor...
30/01/2021

Seedling thoughts.
I first saw these gouache paintings, 14x18", some 15 years ago. Then I thought of them as quite primordial - as if the artist was asking me to see the instinctive, tentative movements an early human learned to make. I saw human emotions laid bare. In front of them I moved differently.
Stop. Pause. Restart. In retrospect, a rhythm....
Now I'm imagining these pieces projected onto a 12 foot screen and taking to the stage with living, breathing dancers!


I sent this to a new home yesterday. A monoprint, oil on a metal plate (which was then squeezed in an old book press), ...
30/01/2021

I sent this to a new home yesterday. A monoprint, oil on a metal plate (which was then squeezed in an old book press), from a series of 10. I shared another from the series recently here in pink.
Sometimes I hope my work can say thank you to people who go the extra mile.

This is George Frederic Watts c.1854. My mother, now 95, and yesterday reading about a show of his work at The Tate, re...
28/01/2021

This is George Frederic Watts c.1854. My mother, now 95, and yesterday reading about a show of his work at The Tate, remembered walking along the lane (early 1930's) to visit the Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey. With Mary Watts, GFW had founded the in 1904 to house a substantial collection or paintings and much else.
I'm interested to think of my mother, a little girl, walking into the world of two Victorian visionaries - a world completely unlike her own practical, pretty stoical daily life. I imagine her looking up at one of GFW's large paintings, 'After the Deluge' or 'Found Drowned', perhaps Mum was used to a few scary Victorian stories, or even at his precocious self portrait, painted when he was just 17. Did she think he was handsome?
I wonder if she met Mary, symbolist, designer, writer, Suffragette. Perhaps mum was inspired by Mary - both brave women who stepped off the expected path.

25/01/2021

Here is 'PetVac5' by Nigel Dawes in conversation with a painting by Sue Phillips - sculpture and canvas exchanging ideas and space. I've long been frustrated by how we label for our convenience...and to our detriment. It starts at school - as if physics and art, or sport and maths are entities to be considered separately. Arthur Ganson https://www.ted.com/talks/arthur_ganson_moving_sculpture... puts that to bed here quite neatly!
This film on vimeo is a dream come true
https://vimeo.com/193562626
A further project in the making: paintings, film projections, dancers. Can't wait.

At our art workshops (mainly for home educated children), we often played about making things for the 4th plinth in Traf...
24/01/2021

At our art workshops (mainly for home educated children), we often played about making things for the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square, London. It was a chance to discuss much more than art/public sculpture/design. You can't, after all, ignore the large column rising up in the middle of the square just a few meters away - power, hierarchies, fallacies, phalluses, we gave them a good dressing down. A favourite design was a stick figure simply drawn in pencil of a friend, who embodies the opposite of those things a plinth often exalts and neatly labelled 'Lyn'.
Dr Seuss takes a satisfying look at this in 'Yertle the Turtle' and yes I have inserted DTrump into that muddy swamp on the last page.
I set out this morning thinking I'd embrace the mud up the hill, rather than fight it. I found a 2nd century map of Roman Britain inscribed in the mud. Nice place for over reaching power to rest.

Brendan's speeding rooks landed me here - in a point of contrast - in stillness. An old, small monoprint, one of a serie...
20/01/2021

Brendan's speeding rooks landed me here - in a point of contrast - in stillness. An old, small monoprint, one of a series of doves set on top of, (I wish), my head.
Years ago I fell in love with Piero della Francesca's stillness - his Virgin of Mercy, Baptism, Madonna, you name it. I wanted that stillness for now. His figures didn't need to be asleep (guards in the Resurrection) to stop me in my tracks and hold my breath.
I guess that's what you'd do if a turtle-dove landed on your head!

'Home with a spotted turtle-dove'
by Gigi Sudbury

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I have been missing so many of the pieces we exhibited , among them this photograph by , 'Rooks, Abbotsbury'. I was rem...
19/01/2021

I have been missing so many of the pieces we exhibited , among them this photograph by ,
'Rooks, Abbotsbury'.
I was remembering how one day I was looking up close and I burst out laughing. I should avoid anthropomorphism but honestly I saw the look in the lower rook's eye, resignation, as if he'd just been overtaken again, and then the expression of the one above, 'Hell yeah, I've got this. Nice try loser!'
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