Exciting News from the Oxmarket!

Got a call from Sophie at the Oxmarket saying a slot had become available for Joel to exhibit at the end of May! Fantastic ! So I checked with Joel and we confirmed the booking  that day . Its for two weeks but we may just take it for one week as its around £260 a week for the Wilson room.
Barbara thinks a week will be fine and then take it to Artspace in Portsmouth and possibley The Sugar Lounge in Petworth?

We had a lovely day wandering round Arundel  popping into the Zimmer-Stuart Gallery ,James was taking down an exhibition of the New Forest , which we thought was possibly Newzealand , it was so lush and almost tropical, to put up the Christmas show

CURRENT EXHIBITION

Our Christmas Mixed Exhibition starts on 10 December, the same day as Arundel by Candlelight and runs till Christmas Eve.
We have one wall of small paintings by some of your favourite artists: Barbara Macfarlane, Phil Tyler, Kate Sherman, Katharine Le Hardy and Nicholas Wriglesworth.
Also, we are pleased to show some new large works on paper by Matt Bodimeade created in situ on the South Downs plus large dry points by Kate Boxer (see The Sins of Sex and the Kisses of Birds, above).
SPECIAL CHRISTMAS OFFER
From 10-24 December we are giving a FREE art book with every purchase over £100 (while stocks last!).
COMING NEXT:
The Mixed Show continues into the New Year until 28 January, when we present "Original Prints and Valentine Ceramics" from 4 February.
Do ask to see work if your preferred artist or work is not on display.
See our Exhibitions Page to find out more (and also to view past shows).

. Then we went to No 26 on the High st , a wonderful New Gallery/Shop opened recently by Mariella Baldwin ( Britannical Artist ) 5 designer makers are exhibiting at the moment (of which I am one )  Its brimming with handmade goodness !!!

Next down Tarrent st to see Painted Ark Gallery Paintings by Andy Waite, sculpture by Lawrence Dicks

Home Elements 1 Elements 2 Elements 3 Elements 4 Icons 1 Icons 2 Gallery 1 Gallery 2 Gallery 3 Gallery 4 Gallery 5 Gallery 6 Life Drawings Studio Sketchbook Exhibitions Links Contact Viewed 134700 Times	''...sometimes out walking it is possible to fully immerse oneself in the landscape and allow the senses to envelop the subconscious. These moments are fleeting and back in the studio there is a similar surrender; the act of painting becomes all trust, response and letting go...'' CURRENT ELEMENTS & ICONS This exhibition has now finished but paintings may still be viewed in my studio at home by arrangement. Tel. 01903 882889 email: andywaite@tiscali.co.uk  54 Tarrant Street  Arundel  West Sussex  BN18 9DN +  The Art Agency  Christmas Show Mixed Exhibition - 7 artists. Friday 9th December - Saturday 22nd January 2012. Private View Thursday 8th December  6.30 - 8.30pm. The Art Agency Gallery, 93 High Street, Esher, Surrey.  KT10 9QA  Tel. 01372 466740  www.theartagency.co.uk The Architect's Gallery  All Around You: New Paintings, Sculpture & Prints. Mixed exhibition of 6 artists. 1st October 2011 - 25th February 2012. The Powder Rooms, 69 - 71 Broad Street, Teddington, TW11 8QZ  Tel. 0208 9772175   www.thearchitectsgallery.com Above: 'Now I Know The Path, The Past Will Let Me Go'  23cm x 32cm  Oil on Panel    Left: 'Quick Before The Light Goes' 30cm x 30cm  Oil on Board
Some lovely landscapes and I especially liked the iconic portraits on board. The Sculptures are heaven too there are 3 little figs on a slab which I could easily fit into my house ! they're on the Christmas list. On our way home we swung by Thandi and Cliff Charles at Goodwoood and Cliff took Joel into his studio to show him what he's been working on. He flew in from New York the day before and is off to South Africa tomorrow for another residency . Born: 1964 Country: South Africa Johannesburg based artist Clifford Charles' evocative ink drawings, chart new visual and physical spaces in post-apartheid South Africa bearing witness to the slippage, multiple layers and forgetfulness in the lived experience of postcolonial Africa. Charles was the first black student to graduate with a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Witwatersrand, during apartheid South Africa. As one of the earliest members of the Afrika Cultural Centre, he also worked for fifteen years as an ‘artist/activist' in unions, hospitals and other social institutions. He exhibited in the 2003 Venice Biennale and his work is held in both public and private collections. Cliff produced the most wonderful lunch out of nowhere ! and we sat by the fire sipping soup and eating pizza and sushi ! Thandi and I call him the feeder  , and today was no exception !!When he returns from S. Africa he and Joel plan to get together ...and see what happens ! watch this space ....

Barbara's back to black moment

Swung by Barbara's as she needs jollying up ... using alot of BLACK at the moe and a making a few trips too many  to the dump to get rid  of the evidence!

gone mechanical on repeated image!

Dark times

Stunning !!! Want it ...Isle of Skye

Looking at the Isle of Skye beauties !

Mountains ??!! Oh yes !

Barbara found this old photo in her parents photo album while clearing out the house, Quite extraordinary the similarity to one of her old paintings from 2000 . Freaky ! But inspirational... its set her on a new road from the soft blue subtleties of Skye to the hard cold bleakness of the mountain range...

Barbara explaining how she'd ended up scraping off more paint than she'd put on !

Not a good day ...one of the Black ones that didn't get binned

An earlier Skye painting...so different to the misty soft landscape above

She's been working slavishly at a stunning painting of Skye .(4th one down ) It seems Barbara is moving away from canvas at the moment and back towards Khadi Paper ....got to say , love em all but the latest Skye (no4) is on my wish list.

Barbara recently went to the Gerhard Richter

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Gerhard Richter: Panorama

Tate Modern 6 October 2011  –  8 January 2012

About the exhibition

Spanning nearly five decades, and coinciding with the artist’s 80th birthday, Gerhard Richter: Panorama is a major retrospective exhibition that groups together significant moments of his remarkable career.
Since the 1960s, Gerhard Richter has immersed himself in a rich and varied exploration of painting. Gerhard Richter: Panorama highlights the full extent of the artist's work, which has encompassed a diverse range of techniques and ideas. It includes realist paintings based on photographs, colourful gestural abstractions such as the squeegee paintings, portraits, subtle landscapes and history paintings.
Gerhard Richter was one of the first German artists to reflect on the history of National Socialism, creating paintings of family members who had been members, as well as victims of, the Nazi party. Continuing his historical interest, he produced the 15-part work October 18 1977 1988, a sequence of black and white paintings based on images of the Baader Meinhof group. Richter has continued to respond to significant moments in history throughout his career; the final room of the exhibition includes September 2005, a painting of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York in 2001.
Lovers of the epic beauty of Rothko, Twombly and Hodgkin will have much to enjoy, as will those who appreciate striking portraiture or the crystal-clear precision of photorealism.
Gerhard Richter: Panorama is organised by Tate Modern in association with Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Centre Pompidou, Paris

Events

Talks and discussions

• Chance and Intention: Gerhard Richter's Abstractions : Talk by Benjamin HD Buchloh   Wednesday 5 October 2011
• Curator’s Talk: Gerhard Richter   Mondays 24 October and 5 December 2011

Symposia

• Panorama: New Perspectives on Richter   Friday 21 October 2011

Films

• Gerhard Richter Painting   Thursday 6 October, Sunday 9 October, Sunday 16 October, Sunday 23 October 2011
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• Looks like a fantastic exhibition , Barbara loved it , his versitility is extraordinary, want to go with Joel in Jan when London isn't so Christmas Crazey.

Pallant House meeting about show next year

13th Oct 11am meeting with Sandra Peaty to discuss Joel's exhibition next year in the Studio at Pallant House . Well what should have been a productive meeting on what dates Joel was to have his show at Pallant House, turned completely unexpectedly into rather devistating news that the studio was double booked so unfortunately Joel would not be able to have his show there . 
 So we left P H rather dumb founded, but not defeted , we rose to the challenge of finding an alternative venue ... straight down the road to The Oxmarket Arts Centre and chatted to the lovely Sophie at reception , She said it was fully booked for next year but I left our details in case a space became available in the Wilson Room . Next we went to a little inderpendant gallery Pretty Scruffy  again in the heart of Chichester, and very helpful delightful little Gallery  they could offer Joel the space but sadly it was just too small for what he would need . The Otter Gallery up at the University was also booked up at least a year in advance, So then we went to Havant Arts Centre and picked up all the forms to apply there. I also contacted Art Space in Portsmouth and got on the list there , they have a space in June, so thats possible .

 What a day , Joel is very quiet and pensive . I feel for him and so want to make things right.  The following week I went to Joel's studio and saw this picture of the swimmer....Joel has removed the water that previously surrounded it, its now left suspended in a kind of silent limbo.. reflective prehaps of how hes feeling now .

Barbara came to see Joel's work

Liking the little pen and ink /watercolours

Joel still loves to do figurative work

Discussing weather these sea scapes need the boat and why are they always in the centre !

Nice reflections and nice  blue in trees

Barbara and her teapot painting, commissioned by The Deck  (cafe) at Emsworth Yatch Club

Walking down by Emsworth marina

August

These trees are my favourite !

While I was away in August Joel was painting these. I really love the Trees .

Frida Kahol & Diego Rivera at Pallant House

Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

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Frida Kahlo, Self-portrait with Monkeys, 1943, Oil on canvas © 2011 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / DACS.

Frida Kahlo was born in Coyoacán on the southern outskirts of Mexico City in 1907. Her father, Guillermo, was an atheist German immigrant photographer, her mother, Matilde, a fervent Catholic of mixed Spanish and Native American descent from Oaxaca. Frida' s mixed heritage was seen as the undercurrent for the prevailing theme of identity in her work, and her divided loyalties to Mexico and Europe.
After contracting polio at the age of six, which left her convalescing at home for nine months, she then almost died at the age of 18, following a bus crash. It was at this point, in 1925, when she was again bedridden and isolated, that she began to paint. The defiant, unapologetic gaze of her self portraits asserts her right to exist, and her refusal to be a victim. The face is as passive as a religious icon, however the symbols in her work unmask fervent psychological undertones.
Kahlo painted self portraits she said ' because I am so often alone, I am the person I know best.' Her continued ill-health following the accident, including several miscarriages, provided her with the anguish, disconnection and loneliness which compelled her to paint, as a way of quantifying her existence, re-affirming her position in the world, and cementing her identity as an artist. It left her pre-occupied with mortality and trapped in a battle between her body and mind.
Her experiences also left Kahlo with a profound neediness, and desire for recognition, culminating in her life-long attachment to Rivera. She respected him and valued his opinion of her work enormously. She was Rivera' s protector and protected. He encouraged her to take great pride in being Mexican; she wore the traditional Tehuana costume, rebozo shawls, and braided her hair to please him, and continuously sought his approval and love, despite many infidelities on both sides (famously his affair with Kahlo' s sister Cristina, and her affair with Leon Trotsky.)

Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera

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Diego Rivera, Last Hour, 1915, Oil on canvas © 2011 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / DACS.

Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato but brought up in Mexico City. Celebrated as the founding father of the Mexican Muralist Movement, he was a talented painter with a striking personality and a fondness for debate. In 1907 he went to Europe on a painting scholarship to Madrid, then settled in Paris where he was influenced by Picasso, Bracque and the Futurists.
After seeking refuge in Spain during the First World War Rivera returned to Mexico and began working on monumental scale murals, incorporating elements of Cubism and Constructivism with a touch of Italian and Spanish classicism, and the colours of Mexican popular art. He was very political, a unionist who helped found the Mexican Communist Party. This greatly appealed to Kahlo, who herself as a student, one of the few women at her University, had been very political.
Rivera's masterpieces, of a very grand scale, are undoubtedly the murals he painted in public buildings. Rivera deliberately chose this route, and it is therefore difficult to give his achievements proper credit in temporary exhibitions outside Mexico. Nevertheless, his easel paintings reveal to a larger extent his talent. In truth, Kahlo excelled as an artist thanks to the support, stimulation and tutelage of Rivera, who was the foremost Mexican painter of his generation.
Kahlo and Rivera met in 1927, when she took some of her paintings to show him as he worked on a commission at the Ministry of Education. They married in 1929, her parents saying it was like the marriage between ' an elephant and a dove' . In the 1930s they spent four years in the United States where he worked on several large scale mural commissions in New York, Detroit and San Francisco.

So exciting to have this work HERE in Chichester !! I took Joel to see the show today . Interestingly some of Frida's early portraits are painted on metal ... I'm guessing that was what was to available at the time ?

Joel has been given a large/huge canvas/board-covered in paper and lovely Tony delivered it to Joel's studio yesterday . Barbara and I are very excited and hope it will be the stepping stone for Joel to larger things! I see charcole happening big time !!