Today marks the opening of an exhibition of 14 of my recent
paintings at Bingham public library, Nottinghamshire. The library is in Eaton
Place, close to the Market Place and to the main free car park.
Paintings are for sale upon enquiry to the library staff,
and purchases may be collected on the last day of the exhibition, Saturday 22nd
December. Prices are as follows:
Hyde Park Corner £250
Portland Place £250
St Pancras Skyline £280
Secret Island £150
Portobello Haar £100
Fittee £150
The Doctor’s In Winter £100
Hot Prefab £100
Awayday £100
The Classic Murder £120
Sissinghurst £150
The Deal Castle £200
Pavilion Gardens Café £150
Dungeness £200
The subject matter is varied, although some of the works
recall the long hot summer this year. Scenes include Sissinghurst, Brighton and
Dungeness in the south of England, and “Fittee” (Aberdeen) and “Portobello
Haar” from north of the border. As usual, there are London scenes – busy
traffic at Hyde Park Corner and in Portland Place, and the atmospheric
tenements which used to fringe the eastern side of St Pancras Station, a
familiar sight to many a rail traveller from the East Midlands.
“The Classic Murder” is an imaginary location inspired by
Tolmers Square, Euston, while “The Deal Castle” is based on a pub just across
the road from the wonderful church of St George in the East, in east London,
but renamed and relocated to a fictional setting. “Hot Prefab” and “Secret
Island” are idealised portrayals of humble surroundings on a summer’s day,
while “The doctor’s in winter” perhaps recalls childhood emotions surrounding
medical appointments. This painting was inspired by a visit to the Ranmoor
district of Sheffield earlier this year. “Awayday” tries to recapture something
of the childhood experience of waiting to go on a train journey from a country
station, the location being very loosely derived from childhood trips on the
Crewe line west of Derby.
If you can get to Bingham during December, please go along to the library, and enjoy.
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