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    • Geoff Routh, ‘south london paintings’
    • Artist(s):
    • Year: 2007
    • £5.00
    • Geoff Routh’s work has been gradually taken over by the building and its environs, just as the building has been taken over by nature. Looking at the paintings in this exhibition, one senses that the artist is still held by the silence of a place that was built for noisy activity. His fascination is akin to that of a diver discovering an ocean liner on the bottom of the sea: a man-made structure which has lost its purpose and lies hidden, encrusted with corals and overgrown with sea weeds.
    • Manami Hayasaki, ‘innocent garden’
    • Artist(s):
    • Year: 2009
    • Hayasaki’s subject matter alternates between the organic forms of nature and the invented forms of toys. The appearance of these closely observed silhouettes is reminiscent of zoological illustration, and there are several works in which the artist seems to be evoking the classification indices of science. This is a playful appropriation – the composition are decided entirely on aesthetic grounds, skewed with a dry whimsy: in one of the works an albatrosses’ wings have been replaced with the bones of a dinosaur.
    • Manami Hayasaki, ‘dream helix’
    • Artist(s):
    • Year: 2008
    • Hayasaki’s subject matter alternates between the organic forms of nature and the invented forms of toys. The appearance of these closely observed silhouettes is reminiscent of zoological illustration, and there are several works in which the artist seems to be evoking the classification indices of science. This is a playful appropriation – the composition are decided entirely on aesthetic grounds, skewed with a dry whimsy: in one of the works an albatrosses’ wings have been replaced with the bones of a dinosaur.
    • Natalie Meyjes, ‘heroic poets’
    • Artist(s):
    • Year: 2005
    • £5.00
    • “I think continually of Those Who Were Truly Great” is the title of Sir Stephen Spender’s 1933 poem in which he remembers “…those who confront despair and evil with a sense of hope and good.” This most admirable attitude, as well s the courage to face the unknown, are characteristic of the navigators of uncharted seas and skies, matadors, soldiers, poets and collectors of butterflies whom I call Heroic Poets. In homage to these poets, both renowned and anonymous, I have suspended the moment they chose to express beauty, humour and grace when besieged by tremendous fear. I salute these heroes for never losing sight of the tender side of humanity and for their living example of the emancipation of the human spirit.
    • Natalie Meyjes, ‘light, space, & time’
    • Artist(s):
    • Year: 2002
    • £5.00
    • What we see is defined by light, space, and time. How we see is even more arbitrary. Within the fixed dimensions of a box – a single unit on a three dimensional grid system – the possibilities of magic and transformation become limitless. Time is suspended, and things are not always what they seem. The order and chaos of nature, a ridiculous moment, stories of courage and beauty delight and inspire me. A box captures the fleeting nature of the theatre and offers another point of view.
    • Snow
    • Artist(s):
    • Year: 2010
    • £ 5.00
    • Henrietta Hoyer Millar paints landscapes that are familiar to her, often since childhood. This in part explains her great sensitivity to topography, and the fluctuating weather and light that animates these landscapes. Alongside the curiosity and urgency to record, one senses an affection and delight that is reminiscent of Constable’s paintings of his father’s garden, or of Palmer embedded in the fields and orchards of Shoreham. Like these beloved painters of English Landscape, Hoyer Millar delights in a familiar scene growing strange and marvellous as she watches.
    • Ramiro Fernandez Saus, ‘travelling without moving’
    • Artist(s):
    • Year: 2001
    • £5.00
    • Henrietta Hoyer Millar, ‘new paintings’
    • Artist(s):
    • Year: 2007
    • £5.00
    • One way or another, ‘plein air’ painting, that is to say working in the open air direct from nature, whether for reference, research or just plain delight, is probably far older than is commonly thought: but, in the Western Tradition at least, as a practice distinct in itself its product worthy of later exhibition and even sale, it dates effectively from the later 18th century, when the portable practicalities of easels, boards and, above all, of oil paints themselves, began to ease. Turner, Constable, Thomas Jones, Carot, de Valenciennes – all come immediately to mind; and it is within that tradition that Henrietta Hoyer Millar clearly stands. However, in contrast, Henrietta’s work has always been a landscape resting close to home, deeply familiar, to be returned to time and again.
    • Su Blackwell, ‘ to take us lands away’
    • Artist(s):
    • Year: 2008
    • £5.00
    • Maro Gorky, ‘the dimension of feeling’
    • Artist(s):
    • Year: 2009
    • £5.00
    • In Byzantine icons and mosaics, the flat gold background represents infinity so that the figures walk forward, they do not recede. I do not see the dimension of my paintings as flat. I see the canvas as a sail on which I can trace the shapes that surround me, like emblems on the sails of maritime explorers. The black canvas represents an infinite surface on which I can trace my feelings.
    • Brian Sayers, ‘paintings’
    • Artist(s):
    • Year: 2007
    • £5.00
    • Mark Entwisle, ‘off white’
    • Artist(s):
    • Year: 2010
    • £5.00
    • Is it possible to care about a tea cup? A discarded newspaper, somebody’s show? Or feel familiarity with objects you’ve never seen before? The un-blinking attention and great affection with which Mark paints suggests an ongoing narrative which intrigues and invites you in.
    • Mark Entwisle, ‘islands in a stream’
    • Artist(s):
    • Year: 2008
    • £5.00
    • Mark Entwisle, ‘out of the woods’
    • Artist(s):
    • Year: 2007
    • £5.00
    • Melanie Miller, ‘moth boy and bees’
    • Artist(s):
    • Year: 2010
    • £5.00
    • The natural objects that are around Miller’s studio appear in the paintings, the honeysuckle that grows outside, the ivy from the nature reserve. The plants and insects are indigenous; she is not interested in exotic beauty. She finds the moths nocturnal habits more interesting than butterflies; “I like an element of attraction and repulsion, notions of beauty and death, profound and insignificant. Someone asked me why I painted the flowers without their roots and bulbs I think this is because I am not interested in them as specimens more as tokens or signs, each one particular”.
    • John Monks, ‘recent works’
    • Artist(s):
    • Year: 2010
    • £5.00
    • John Monks, paintings
    • Artist(s):
    • Year: 2008
    • ISBN: 0 9543756 2 9
    • £45.00
    • John Monks is one of the most important and distinctive artists working in Britain today. This book is the first comprehensive record of his work over the last quarter century, in which he has explored landscapes, interiors and still lives with an increasingly rich palette.
    • John Monks, ‘domain’
    • Artist(s):
    • Year: 2008
    • £5.00
    • John Monks, ‘artificial light’
    • Artist(s):
    • Year: 2007
    • £5.00
    • John Monks, ‘twenty four hours’
    • Artist(s):
    • Year: 2005
    • £5.00