EVA'S SWIRL...

I know, not keeping the blog flowing, too busy painting (and Organ-grinding). This big 8ft tall canvas was left outside the studio at the start of May, I've talked about people leaving unresolved work here before, people are picking up on the idea...

There's a photo of what it looked like is what before I touched it. and what it looks like now I've added a layer or two of leaf growth and a swirl and such. I do know who left the original piece for me to work on, need to check if the artist wishes to be named before I do...

THINGS LEFT ON THE FLOOR.... Haven't found a used unwanted abandoned canvas (or records or...) on the street for days now, however this morning there was a nice inspiring pile of pieces deliberately left and waiting outside the studio though... "Paint on these" was the message left... Several good looking pieces painted on some kind of black hardwood floor covering material, and a great big fold up piece of canvas that's just been painted blue... I rather like these small pieces as they are but that really isn't the point of these collaborations, reworkings, remixings, paint-over recycling ideas. As I've said before this is art that others feel is unresolved or unfinished or that they've taken to a logical conclusion and.... these have been left here on purpose, therefore I am obliged to work on them or with them...

the notions of art as object with no real status

I’d like the notion of buying my paintings and pieces to be like the buying of a CD: it’s cheap, it’s art and hopefully it changes your life (or at least your day, or your week) just a little. Rather like a CD the object has no real status. Something evolved and created for and from the moment (or moments) I painted it, for that moment you enjoyed it. Something with none of the boundaries the coldness of galleries and gallery prices can throw up. This isn’t a comment on how other people do things, just the way I want to enjoy my creative process right now. I don’t object to galleries or having my work in galleries, but I do enjoy the notion of taking the financial status away and the piece of art having no real financial status. Art on market stalls, art left on the street, sold on ebay for 1p. I have been leaving a lot of art on the streets over the last two years, people often complain that they never have a chance to find anything and that the process is a little hit and miss…

Tomorrow, Saturday, I shall once more be painting at my stall on Netil Market, Hackney, London E8 (by London Fields park and just by the railway bridge in the little carpark by Netil House and Mare Street). Pieces of work will be on sale at prices ranging between £1.00 and £30.00. if you think they should be cheaper say so, gave quite a few away last week (will paint for food or cups of coffee though… )

And now I shall go enjoy this glorious weather and paint outside the front of the studio…

12" slice of vinyl, left behind a fence on top of a wall

12" slice of vinyl, left behind a fence on top of a wall. March 19th 2011.

Another Wilfred...

Another Wilfred piece, I do rather like painting Wilfred. This time on one of those 'nice' instant canvas decorations they mass produce and sell at Ikea, the ones that people get board with and throw away after a few months (once they've seen that all their friends have the same picture on their identical Ikea flavoured walls). They throw them away for me to find, paint one and recycle. I do like painting over these unwanted things, bit like the notion of those street artists painting over old walls and other people's pieces while leaving bits of what was there for people to see... And I do like the notion that Mother Nature is the finest of all street artists, growing her new leaves and fresh green things over decaying city walls and old unwanted pieces thrown away, over walls, over thrown away canvas or discarded 80's sounds systems. Wilfred would never be thrown away though, he's an original bit of classic 80's ghetto blaster who saw valiant service at the GLC Hip-Hop jam of the early 80's and gave good service on many painting and busking days back there. He now has a place of honour here in the studio bunker where he is often painted... Here's the latest Wilfred piece...

Time to drag my easel over to the open air of Netil Market

The Spring sunshine demands that this coming Saturday I leave the bunker studio and all the paint fumes and drag my easel over to the open air of Netil Market, over here in London E8. I shall set up said easel and paint live and direct next to a stall where you will find some of my smaller canvas pieces and well as bits painted on cardboard, on nice bits of 7" vinyl, in frames. Come say hello, time to carry on with last year's market stall / street corner / phone box / ebay / left field gallery space experiments in affordable art. I like the atmosphere at Netil, expecially when they have live bands and that excellent Chai tea stall in the corner is there... here are some fresh green leaves and work in progess in the bunker... http://netilmarket.tumblr.com/

Bronwen Little Eris Davies lovely lovely leaves! 11 hours ago


Sean Worrall

Netil Market is in the carpark next to Netil House, just by London Fields and Broadway Market (Broadway is the fashionable one with the expensice foodm Netil is the alternative friendly creative zone just a tiny bit down the road) with art,... vintage, affordable food, bands, msuic, books, shoes and al lkinds of strange things

Netil Market every Saturday @ 11-25 Westgate St, London Fields, London E8. 11am - 6pm. Just off Mare street, lots of buses to Hackney stop right by it, right by London Fields overground...

Sean Worrall thank you Bronwen, work in progress in the bunker, one of of those giant canvas finds from the street... i do like the idea of art on alernative market stalls rather than the formal eviroment of a gallery, I like the idea of art people can actually afford as well.

Bronwen Little Eris Davies yes it sounds really nice if i was in the area i would definitely mooch along looks like a nice bimbly time to be had! I am in london 9th april perhaps u might be there again!?

Sean Worrall

well if all goes well and all parties are happy then yes, maybe a regular Saturday thing. Now all we need are some cakes with scissors on or soemthing like that.

There's a Netil market facebook page here
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gi...d=276168656857&v=wall

Zoie Mccormack Did someone say cakes with scissors on them ??? Im ya Gal x

one old sketchbook battered and brused and coming to

one old sketchbook battered and brused and coming to an end and ready to be packed up on the pile on the shelf with all the others. One nice gleaming new untouched book waiting for a month of rides on buses, tube trains, visits to musical establishments...