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”Â
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)
- Little Red Riding Hood – Becki (age 7)
- Sunflowers – Becki (age 7)
- Jug canal folk art – Emma (age 7)
- Waterfront – Emma (age 10)
- ‘Have a Happy Day, Mummy’ – Emma (age 7)
- Flowers – Emma (age 7)
- Sunflowers – Emma (age 7)
- Sunflowers – Emma (age 7)
- Chinese brush paintings – David Yarwood
- Metal – David Yarwood
- Painted in Malaysia, the day I heard of my Father’s death – Anne Yarwood
- After listening to a poem from WW1, painted primarily with eyes closed- Anne Yarwood
- Painted long ago – Anne Yarwood
- ‘ Who ? ‘ – Anne Yarwood
- The Divine: meditation on a poem describing the tide’s relentless advance up the beach, to overwhelm – Anne Yarwood
- NOT a friendly spirit – Anne Yarwood
- Emblems ‘We are put on earth a little space, so we may learn to bear the beams of love’ Blake – Anne Yarwood
- Eyes closed paintings of the Chakras; painted over many weeks alongside friend, Sarah Cox – Anne Yarwood
- Son & Younger daughter and me – Anne Yarwood
- David resting – Anne Yarwood
- Cyclamen painted at local Arts centre class – Anne Yarwood
- Patterning – Anne Yarwood
- ‘Anything too stupid to be said, should be sung’ Voltaire – Anne Yarwood
- 9/11 – Anne Yarwood
- Greenman …left outside in the wood in all weathers,for many weeks -Anne Yarwood
- Soham murders – Anne Yarwood
- ‘I PAINT’ Her Mit das Cosmos – Anne Yarwood
- Cabin gifted to the garden by the late Teresa Montague
- Beatrice Hastings – Modigliani (Tate Modern exhibition 23 Nov – 2 Apr 2018)