Portrait of Mr P oil on canvas, 28  x 28 ins, 2010

Primary category: 2D

Contact:

jevans32@ntlworld.com

www.judeevans.co.uk

Artist Statement:

Over the past few months my work has taken a new turn. I used to paint landscapes and marine scenes but after looking at some wonderful old family photo albums, I was inspired to focus on portraiture. I created a body of work based on black and white images of my parents and grandparents from the 1940s and 50s, and colour photos from my childhood in 1960s and 70s.
I also began a series of images based on Hollywood movie stills, from great romantic films like Casablanca. Recently, I have been working on portraits from life: my heroes in contemporary painting are Lucien Freud, Jonathan Yeo and Guy Denning.

Education:
Chelsea College of Art & Design, Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art
Middlesex University, BA (Hons) Fine Art & Critical Theory

Group exhibitions:
2009 Dulwich Open House
2008 William Angel Gallery, Peckham Rye
2007 Christmas Art Show, Scope Gallery, East Dulwich
2006 Cafe Gallery, Southwark Park

Further examples of work:

The Wicked Lady oil on canvas, 42 x 32 ins, 2010

Beside the Seaside oil on canvas, 24 x 30 ins, 2009

Living London by Torie Wilkinson at Jane Newbery: August 2010
A review by Jude Evans

Torie Wilkinson, Leaving My Mark

Urban streets, tower blocks and graffiti may not be the first things you expect to see in an interiors shop in Dulwich Village. But Jane Newbery’s gallery, in the basement of her shop, is a brilliant place for Torie Wilkinson’s Living London exhibition. Jane is enthusiastic about the paintings she shows in her Dulwich Village shop, which is itself arranged like an exhibition, with unusual gifts, luxury items and lovely things for the home creating a delightful environment for browsing. Some of Torie’s paintings are on show in the shop, where they look right at home, and Jane tells me that sales have been very good. I can see why.

Having seen Torie’s work only as small images on her website, I’m really surprised by how gutsy her paintings are when seen in the flesh. Initially unassuming, the images suddenly grab me: I notice Torie’s painterly technique (mostly oil on canvas, I think), her muted palette and her almost-abstract compositions; then the images come into focus, and the subjects are pretty mundane. But the treatment of these subjects creates intriguing pictures. I find them fascinating. Torie’s views of ordinary-looking buildings and streets, high-rise housing estates, railway arches, graffiti and urban decay are quirky, and often humorous. Her work is about a positive depiction of subjects usually regarded as pretty grim. In subject matter and in technique, Torie’s paintings remind me of work by Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff – two social realist School of London painters of unsentimental London scenes, who encrusted the surfaces of their pictures with thick impasto. Another influence might be John Bratby – the Kitchen Sink painter who took a candid look at the dreariness of domestic life in the 1950s, and was inspired to create images that celebrated the everyday world of ordinary people. Torie certainly seems to be continuing this tradition of celebrating the ordinary, seeing beauty in the banal and poetry in the commonplace.

SLWAEditor: Future exhibitions at Jane Newbery Gallery, 33 Dulwich Village include SLWA’s Laura Moreton Griffiths 2nd – 30th November

Chelsea College of Art & Design MA show

I’m delighted to invite you to the MA degree show 2010 of Chelsea College of Art & Design, with my participation. The exhibition continues from September 1st. until September 5th. 2010.

Please download the formal invitation here: MA_SHOW_2010_-_INVITATION

Exhibiting in the show: MA Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice, MA Fine Art, MA Graphic Design Communication, MA Interior and Spatial Design, MA Textile Design.

Pls forward the invitation to your friends and acquaintance that may be interested. Thank you!

- I hope to see you in the show, Daphna Alon

daphna.alon@gmail.com
www.daphnaalon.co.uk

John Harris, Discus Paralympic Gold Medalist 1984 by Rachel Gadsden

The Liberty Festival is happening in London on the 4th Sept. It is sponsored by the GLA, and Mayor Boris Johnson has particularly requested a link with the Paralympics this year. Rachel Gadsden has been commissioned to create a large live capture painting in Trafalgar Sq on the day. Whilst she describes it as a slightly terrifying prospect Rachel is extremely thrilled to have been commissioned to do it.
Come along to Trafalgar Square on Sat 4th Sept – Rachel will be painting from 1pm – 5pm.
More information: www.rachelgadsden.com
Or look at the Festival webpage : http://www.london.gov.uk/event-meeting/2010/sep/liberty-festival
[Rachel has applied to join SLWA.]

12 August 2010 – 31 August 2010
Connections Exhibition, The Compass Gallery, 178 West Regent Street, Glasgow, G2 4RL

Recent work by Janet Tod can be seen in the Connections Exhibition at the Compass Gallery in Glasgow along with other alumni of Hospitalfield House – one of the best kept secrets of the Scottish art world (see: www.hospitalfield.org.uk).
For full details of the exhibition to to: http://www.compassgallery.co.uk/cg-exhibitions-Connections.htm
Mention of the time spent at Hospitalfield House in Arbroath elicits a warm, appreciative smile from the many Scottish artists who spent time there after graduating. Established as a trust in the late 19th century by Patrick Allan Fraser to encourage young artists in their chosen discipline, studio accommodation, space and tutoring were provided to encourage, support and stimulate creative development. It became a summer school for a small number of specially selected post-graduate students from the four Scottish art schools, including many notable and important 20th century Scottish artists such as Joan Eardley, and many other contemporaries for whom a residency served as a formative and creative experience early on in their professional careers. Hospitalfield continues to be a place of practice and research for established and emerging artists, in all disciplines of the visual arts, from Scotland and around the world. The artists participating in this exhibition are a selection of some of the many who benefited from the special qualities of spending working time with companionship, discussion and debates within the unrivalled atmosphere of Hospitalfield and its studios throughout the 20th century. Commission from sales will support the Alumni Association funding of the Hospitalfield Annual Residency and Compass Gallery which is a not for profit registered charity.

Exhibiting artists include: Jack Knox; Will McLean; Alexander Fraser; Joyce Cairns; Ian & Mae McKenzie Smith; Alan Robb; Allan Beveridge; Susan Smith; Jim Dunbar; George Donald; Ian McCulloch; Alice McMurrough; Judith McCrorie; Dawson Murray; Alastair Strachan; Janet Tod; James Spence; John Inglis; Patricia Cain; John Byrne; Douglas Thompson; Emma Waine; Anda Paterson; Helen Wilson; Cynthia Wall; Christopher Allan and many others. Alongside members of the alumni, the exhibition will feature works by some notable 20th century Scottish Masters who resided at Hospitalfield including Joan Eardley, Robert Colquhoun, Robert MacBryde, Robert Henderson-Blyth, J. McLauchlan Milne, Bet Low, Cordelia Oliver, James Robertson, James Cowie and Ian Fleming.

You are invited to the opening on
Thursday 16th September 6.00 – 9.00

at
The Jeannie Avent Gallery
14 North Cross Road
London SE22 9EU

Exhibition open 16th – 28th September
Mon to Sat 11.00am – 6.00pm

more info 07912257890
www.katebhall.com