I have deliberately ignored the rules of The Discerning Eye.

In past years the quality of its exhibitions has been inevitably dependent on the random business of selection from random submissions of which far too many have been of abysmal quality dipping to a point unacceptable beyond the walls of the amateur art club of Scrotum Magna.

In an attempt to redress the balance my selection has been (with a few exceptions) not from the open submission but by invitation; I have chosen six artists observed in the last year or so as working comfortably within the ancestral traditions of European painting and sculpture, some with simple and direct appeal – painting pictures to live with, so to speak – others demanding an intellectual response and some awareness of art history.

The choice of artists is mine, the choice of work exhibited is theirs and each, with a dozen works or so on view, offers us, as it were, a one-man exhibition of his current work, in small, specially prepared for this year's Discerning Eye.

This allows us to see his work in far greater depth and breadth than has been customary and to make a better judgement than is possible from an isolated offering.

 

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