PAINTING PIANO'S IN THE CITY OF LONDON SUNSHINE

Well painting piano was eventful fun, few little problems with officialdom at the start but once the paint started to flow and the leaves started to grow, all went rather well. There's a big set of Facebook pictures here, with work in progress, passing players, piano-playing office workers and more Painted the piano in St Mary Le Bow, right outside the church in a busy square in the heart of the City Of London yesterday, off now to paint one in Ledenhall Market Arcade, a beautiful looking Victorian Arcade once again in the heart of London. That's a photo of yesterday's finished piano after a few hours in the boiling hot sun...

Showing with the Art Shop Collective this weekend

Showing some more work as a guest of the Art Shop Collective this weekend. I shall be showing (and hopefully selling, even artists have to eat) some small pieces of canvas, painted vinyl and such. This is the last stand for the AAA Gallery/space, the building is being pulled down and replaced by more expensive flats that no one from the area can afford to rent... Come enjoy some art down by the canal in East London...

"AAA Magazine presents Art Shop Collective: the return of the pop-up for the weekend of Saturday and Sunday 25/26th June, 11am until 7pm both days

A collective of around 25 artists specialising in a range of artistic disciplines. Offering for sale an assortment of work suitable for every pocket. In keeping with our ethos of both celebrating and supporting creativity, there will be Live music, Live performance art, .... tea and complete with complimentary food stuffs".

www.arthurandalbert.com

AAA STUDIO
50 ACTON MEWS
(JUST BY THE CANAL OFF KINGSLAND ROAD), Dalston/Shoreditch border in East London, five minute walk from Haggerston Overground train station and not far from Dalston

THE STINGING NETIL – A REASONABLE PRICED ART FAIR

The Stinging Netil is taking up lots and lots of my time at the moment, just like Organgrinding really!

THE STINGING NETIL – A REASONABLE PRICED ART FAIR, GATHERING & MUSIC EVENT IN EAST LONDON…

THE STINGING NETIL is an artist-run reasonably priced art fair happening in London Fields, London, E8. We’re taking over the already established Netil House Market and create a gathering of artists – fine artists, street artists, print makers, art enthusiasts, collectors, people who just want to come out and enjoy looking at some new exciting – we’ll have traditional market stalls alive with very reasonably priced art, we’ll have live art, food art, a music stage with bands playing all day. An art fair, an art mart - not just an art fair though, a creative gathering, a place to interact, network, be pro-active…

WHERE: It all happens in Netil House car park on Sunday July 10th, just off fashionable Broadway and right by the always busy London Fields park in Hackney, East London, E8. The event will run from 11am until 8pm.

ART: Expect to find 25 or so traditional market stalls, being run by the artists themselves, all packed with very reasonable priced fine art, canvas paintings, prints, street art and more – art and creativity from a whole cross section of vibrant exciting London artists. Each stall taken by an individual artist, a group, a collective or a small London gallery.

MUSIC / PERFORMANCE: Alongside the art stalls, we’ll have a music/performance area with experimental bands, folk flavoured bands, art rock, country anarchy, alternative musical colour and who knows what. We’ll have performance, we’ll have food art, live art, paste-ups and all kinds of interesting things to hear, see, touch and eat…

TIMES: The Art Mart opens at 11.00am, Sunday morning, the first band will play at Midday, and we’ll have music and art flowing until 8pm

TRAVEL: Netil Market is five minutes walk from London Fields overground railway station (12 minutes from Liverpool Street), the area is also very very well served by many buses, for full travel details see the Stinging Netil pages on the Organ site at www.organart.com

just discovered where the pianos are...

just discovered where the pianos are... I shall be painting two pianos, live painting out on the street, or in this case a rather historic London market hall and an equally historic churchyard The two locations are, Leadenhall Market, EC3 and St-Mary-le-Bow Churchyard, EC2. Two excellent locations. I was invited to be involved a few weeks ago, just got the details through... Recycling old pianos, well pianos that still live as working pianos, but painting on them, right up my street(art)... I shall be painting live on location on 27th, 28th and possibly 29th of June... come along and play while I paint...

http://www.colf.org//exhibitions/Classical-Music-Contemporary-Music-Dance-Street-Arts-Jazz-World-Music/42-Play-Me-Im-Yours.cfm

COLOUR REDUCTIONS...

A set of four paintings done yesterday, June 4th 2011. Four pieces on 40cm x 50cm canvas with spray paint. Reducing previous pieces to just shapes and markS rather than the previous layers of colours upon colour...

AAA Collective show/art shop goes on this weekend...

Well now, the morning after the AAA collective First Thursday show. Things were chaotically DIY and the organisation was at times 'interesting', somehow the show all came together almost on time and did rather like the way everyone pulled together and let's do it ourdleves spirit of it. And it was a pleasure sharing an early Summer evening by the canal in East London with some positive pro-active people, some good art and some going ahead and doing it without some gallery owner exploiting things or dictating direction... This nothing new of course, collectives and artists pulling together and doing it themselves, did enjoy dipping a toe or two in the (canal) water with the AAA group though...

The show continues this week end in the gallery space by the Canal in Dalston/shoreditch, Acton Mews, London E8, just off the Kingsland road, by the bridge and the car wash. The gallery/shop is open this Saturday and Sunday, 11am until 7pm. Some of thr artists will be there, I expect people will be painting and such (I will be for some of the time)

Old 78s left on an East London street....

A whole plie of old 78s, there they were just waiting in the side of the road by the rubbish bin, waiting to me taken home and painted on. Getting them ready for tomorrow's show at AAA Gallery with the Art Shop Collective... June 1st 2011. Fine some on sale, fine others left by the canal. Twelve painted today..

Love the quality of these old 78rpm singles, the labels are works of art on their own. Do wonder who they belonged to, someone's much loved early 1950's collection just left out on the street in East London next to a recycle bin. A big part... of someone's life just left on the pavement. Hope they don't mind me painting on them, better than them being just forgotten about and thrown in ot a landfill of something (the material can't be recycled in any conventional recycling way). They really are beautiful things...