MAGICAL CONNECTIONS with FRIENDS AND FAMILY through our PAINTINGS Gallery

WE CAN WRAP OUR DAILY LIVES, IN BEAUTY

A picture celebration of family and friends’ imaginings: skilful play, with all forms of Creativity

MAGICAL CONNECTIONS with FRIENDS AND FAMILY through our PAINTINGS

Like many happenings with The Imagination Acts, the idea to collect paintings from Friends & Family, is flowering. Images of 40 or more paintings have been generously provided. I’m excited! More can be addded..

A number are from trained artists, others from children splashing around with Nana.

Many are by friends I’ve met in various times of my life; so I enter those particular settings, once more. Weeks of painting from Meditation with Becky Kennedy and Sarah Cox, around the kitchen table; plastic sheeted with Wally-dog snoring and farting, in the tent underneath. Sunday afternoons in Malaysia, upstairs in an old wooden Malay house. White muslin flapping at the glass – free windows. Food being prepared amidst the chickens, down below.

Some of the paintings are well presented; many are botched because the photographer (me) has limited movement in pix- taker right arm. I think this is OK. You get a sense of all those images on the walls of a home. The outside peeps into the paintings, gathered together during 60 years. Imprints of moments, shared.

Late in the day, I’ve woken up to create a parallel collection of the Painters’ words about themselves and their art.

In Tales (maybe by next weekend) we’ll have musings from some of the artists in response to the heading: “I PAINT”

The theme of Family and Friends’ is also reflected in the current Modigliani Exhibition (Tate Modern) showing portraits of his family and friends – HERE

Anne Yarwood

: Morning Glory – Ann Trewartha

: Hydrangea – Ann Trewartha

: Bronze Earth Strata – Ann Trewartha

: Klimt on silk – Ann Trewartha

: Beach Sweeper, Barbados – Sarah Cox

: Harbour Lights – Sarah Cox

: Woodland Walk – Sarah Cox

: The Gathering, West Wittering – Sarah Cox

: Sunset on wet sands – Sarah Cox

: Searching for Mother – Jennifer Leach

: And All that Remains – Jennifer Leach

: Poppies painted for David’s birthday – Anne Gowland

: My Garden – Anne Gowland

: Eyes – Anne Gowland

: Still Life – Anne Gowland

: Pinks – Anya Elie

: Patterning – Anya Elie

: Jesus on the tube – Antonia Rolls

: Julia Wilson. Julia had Motor Neurone Disease, and when I asked what she wanted to put on the painting, she said, “All I have left is time” – Antonia Rolls

: Goodbye Michael, Goodbye Old Friend – Antonia Rolls

: Engine wheels – Adam Trewartha

: My Father – late Teresa Montague

: Abundance – Pauline Wilde

: ‘It’s a beautiful world’ – Pauline Wilde

: Holy Cow – Pauline Wilde

: Early Morning Waterfall – Pauline Wilde

: Untitled – Pauline Wilde

: The Last Supper : FOOD – Tina Hanna

: His Father’s Work : CHANGE – Tina Hanna

: Sally in Malaysia – Betty Rollins, Canadian painter

: Bungaraya (Hibiscus) national flower of Malaysia – Babu Edwin

: Sri Lankan flowers – Lilian Simpkin who introduced Anne Yarwood to painting during Malaysian Sunday afternoons

: Lilacs (Award winning design for poster, Boston USA) – late Shirley Nisbet

: Anne – Barbara James who encaptured who Anne is

: Nudes – Barbara and Alan James, painted at Bristol art group following architect Alan’s life-changing car crash

: Two Ages – Viv Perkins

: Two Ages – Viv Perkins

: Untitled – Susanna Vermaase

: Untitled – Susanna Vermaase

: Untitled – Susanna Vermaase

: Cold, painted in International Art Class run by the late Shirley Nisbet, in Malaysia – Sally Yarwood ( age 8)

: Hot – Sally Yarwood (age 8)

: Abstract – Rachael Yarwood (age 10)

: Still Life – Will Yarwood (age 12)

: Mercury Messenger of the Gods – Becki (age 10) who painted the splodged shape which unconsciously formed a Greek god’s head and Anne Yarwood (age 70)