THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 7

 IN THE KARDOMAH WITH FLASH AND LIZ

it's 1968 and after school..

a young artist has made new friends..

since being taken up by Flash..

Liz and Julie and their crowd..

are putting the world to rights in the Kardomah cafe..

another up market joint..

Petey paint is happy here with these popular people..

he will hanker after these moments all of his life..

girls are noticing him..

and they like what they see..

this gang are all with him at the Saturday night parties...

that best of the year 11 experience..

he has a trendy haircut..

short but perfectly formed..

and new clothes..

some parallel trousers that..

Docile and Bruin helped him buy..

BTW

Docile was actually a rocker I believe..

he was a tough guy..

 meanwhile..

 back at the Kardomah..

Liz is radiant and painty is attracted to her..

a lot..

ROBOTS READ MY BLOG

 yo!.. come all ye bots.. innit!

here in palookaville..

viewing traffic has gone apeshit..

google stats show viewing spikes..

all over town..

I SMELL A BOT

when you get 82 visits from Japan in one day..

or 199 from singapore all in a day..

you know the bots are back..

TEACH YOUR CHILDREN

instead of teaching our children..

we are training machines how to say and write and draw..

dumb stuff..

they think that  now that we are all dumbed down..

by the clever politics and media..

we will need machines to entertain and inform us all..

with ever dumber stuff..

ANSWER THE F*CKING PHONE

the robots not answering the phones of the business and government..

are so crap that they are to be promoted..

just like in real life..

when the bots come to palookaville..

they at least get a laugh..

MY FINE ART

the bots are also..

all over my stuff on faa..

it started with beverley hills..

but is mostly new york..

with some from riyadh..

some 2500 - 5000 a day or more..

it makes it difficult..

to see the real visits..

FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH

If you think that what you are reading, watching or listening to..

is created by a machine..

just turn it off..

shut it down..

do not buy it..

it's..

your future..

your choice..

SECRETS FROM THE ARTIST'S PALETTE

space .. the final frontier..

they do look like planets though..

don't they..


TOO MUCH PAINT ON MY PLATE


I use dinner plates..

as palettes..

some say that the palette..

is the colours used in a painting..

you know..

a warm palette..

a cool palette..

neutral.. whatever..

sometimes the palette is..

more interesting than the painting itself..

coming from where it does..

the blind side..

it happens whilst you are looking elsewhere..

that's why they have their own originality..

and are never contrived..

never conceived..

born out of utility..


see the collection here

IMAGINED ST IVES

ST IVES CORNWALL

Although they did not see themselves as part of a group or school,

the term St Ives School is often used to refer to the artists..

associated with the fishing town of St Ives in West Cornwall,

which became a centre for modern and abstract developments..

in British art from the 1940s to the 1960s

imagined st ives

West Cornwall’s special quality of light has drawn painters to St Ives since the beginning of the nineteenth century. However the extension of the Great Western Railway to West Cornwall in 1877, which eased access to the remote town, made St Ives even more appealing as a destination for artists.

In 1928 the artists Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood visited St Ives where they met naïve artist Alfred Wallis, whose painting was to have a profound impact on Nicholson, confirming the modern direction of his work. In 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War, Nicholson and his then wife the sculptor Dame Barbara Hepworth, both by then fully fledged abstract artists, settled near St Ives, where they were soon joined by the Russian constructivist sculptor Naum Gabo. After the war St Ives became a centre for modern and abstract developments in British art led by Hepworth and Nicholson (Gabo departed in 1946).

From about 1950 a group of younger artists gathered in St Ives and it is with this group, together with Hepworth and Nicholson (until his departure in 1958), that the term St Ives School is particularly associated. As well as a shared interested in abstraction, the St Ives artists were also inspired by the landscape of West Cornwall and used its shapes, forms and colours as a source for much of their work. The principal figures of the St Ives School include Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Paul Feiler, Sir Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Peter Lanyon, Karl Weschke and Bryan Wynter, together with the pioneer modern potter, Bernard Leach.

The heyday of the St Ives School was in the 1950s and 1960s but in 1993, Tate St Ives, a striking purpose-built new gallery in a remarkable situation on Porthmeor Beach in St Ives, was opened. It exhibits the Tate collection of St Ives School art and related types of art, and has given the town a whole new lease of artistic life.