THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 26 : Fun

 all the fun of the fair

the artist is having fun..

he is painting them nine at once..

it's all speed. gesture. movement..

and colour of course..

lots of it,,

he's throwing it everywhere..

RIDERS ON A STORM

it's a storm alright..

impressionism meets futurism..

at the speed of light..

Terry Frost had said to Alan..

'paint whilst not looking'..

in other words..

don't think about it..

just do it..

and do it fast..

it's all too easy for him..

he fails to realise..

this is him..

this is who he is..

unplanned, thoughtless, hasty..

wild, abandoned, happy..

because the night..

once you edit out the noise..

it's a dance..

a ballet..

a nocturne..

a symphony of colour..

Whistler would have approved..

https://www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/all?query=Charles%20Stuart%20fairground

SEE THE VIDEO ART ON UTUBE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNa_ElSeOg4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw2tEeMnKqs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCiB9Huk3xg

LIGHT FANTASTIC

yo!.. my trip.. innit!

 middle class people an toffs..

tend not to like the funfair..

the noisy, smelly fairground..

with all it's teeth rotting treats..

and expensive rides..

BUT

I have lived with the annual track down to the forest..

to trip the light fantastic..

with my fellow plebs..

because if you tune out..

the crap and concentrate on the..

spectacle..

you will see a nocturn..

PAINTED WITH LIGHT

the painter likes to blur..

softer edges and glow..

you can't video it in focus..

it just looks ordinary..

but out of focus..

that's a whole new thing..

You can see here that ..

I have tried to share..

my vision of this spectacle..

with oil paint..

speed blur and gesture..

vivid colour and selected details..

or rather..

no details..

DISCO : DANCE

this is where the disco..

comes from..

the night clubbing experience..

it started with dances like..

the waltz..

so we have waltzers..

and waltzers require loud music..

rock and roll..

the twist..

and we must dress up..

or down..

piano by prank parlic

https://www.saatchiart.com/peterthepainter

THE ART OF CHAOS

In 2003 I made this movie/painting..

CHAOS 

it became popular on youtube and was shown on classicFM tv..

Branka parlić was kind enough to give her permission..

for me to use her recording of..

Gnossienne No.1 by Erik Satie..

to use as the sound track..

it was broadcast several times on classic FM tv and is on youtube..

people think that it is a music video and that my film is just incidental to the music..

which may be so now..

but it was conceived originally as a visual piece..

 

I had initially filmed in focus but the result was not interesting..

only when the shooting was out of focus was chaos born..

ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE

in the year 2000 I was using video to paint with.. 

it was not high definition but was the best quality I could afford at the time.. 

I wanted to make a movie/painting of the goose fair.. 

an annual event here in nottingham.. 

in this next series of posts.. 

I should like to share with you some of the fruits of my.. 

painting with light..

THE SWAN RIDE

 the artist's gesture..

 

the great swoosh of the mark..

the passionate daub..

light, speed, colour..

the huge contrast with the care taken with the blended and blurred..

daring, dramatic, reckless..

destructive, creative, wild..

 

fairground inspiration..

light, movement, speed, colour and chaos

 I have this framed which is unusual..

 

you see it here in our home..