| exhibition archive The Discerning Eye Exhibition 2006 15th exhibition ~ 16 to 26 November 2006 I would like to own every object, embroidery, print, picture and drawing I have chosen for the Discerning Eye 2006 exhibition..... I love and admire things I cannot 'do'. Bella Easton's Chine Colle prints are a mystery. How are the component parts layered? The process seems delicate and infernal. Oil paint and hardboard - even multiple density fibreboard I understand. But Neil Jeffries and Hilary Oliver draw and fashion with metal, creating bottoms, buildings, pubic hair, 'Y' fronts and fortifications. With aluminium and steel they triumph! Odd shaped images? I have done my share and so has Jeffrey Camp - he is represented in the exhibition by six many sided images, narratives with the painterly touch of Thomas Gainsborough or Pierre Bonnard. Late Camp in the 21st century means we all have a tomorrow! Today, Jiro Osuga does irregular narratives complete with hinges - wonderful! Jeffery Johnson is a poet who paints - very slowly. The mystery is in the infinite detail. The world that Tim Hyman conjures for us is urgent, urban and gently humorous. He gives the impression of long planning and quick drawing. With his example in mind, should I paint 'looser'? Charles Williams paints funny pictures seriously. He copes with the human condition with wit and tenderness - every home needs one. Gavin Fry embroiders - he'll have you in stitches. Oh, that I could do caravans with long stitches - his beadwork is exemplary. Small really is beautiful when he's on the job. I have known and loved Susan Bower's painting for many years, usually hung too high in prestigious mixed shows. In them she holds up a sympathetic mirror to life's experiences. Her solutions reassure me that art can be as comfortable as a bench in the park - not an angst in sight.... Eileen Cooper uses her art to make her privacies public - the best art always does just that - I am sure than many of us would love to live in her pictures. Alas, too often professionals just 'do art'. Exactly fifty years ago I arrived at The Slade - they taught drawing there, rather well. I bought a copy of the 'Story of Art' by Ernst Gombrich. The first line of the introduction states simply "There really is no such thing as Art. There are only Artists." | 1/1 | Interact with your shadow | £450 |
| 1/2 | Sweetness and light | £3,600 |
| 1/4 | How was your day dear? | £1,050 |
| 1/7 | Quiet at the Wayside Cafe | £1,995 |
| 1/11 | Tate Modern chimney | £2,600 |
| 1/13 | Newspaper at Brighton | £2,300 |
| 1/15 | Two pears on a plate | £350 |
| 1/22 | Risk assessment | £1,800 |
| 1/23 | Everyone's a winner | £640 |
| 1/27 | Letter 'R' out of an alphabet book entitled 'Alf 'N' Betty' | £150 |
| 1/32 | You go to my head | £500 |
| 1/33 | A little sugar in my bowl | £500 |
| 1/34 | A good man is hard to find | £575 |
| 1/35 | Study for the stripping of London | £945 |
| 1/36 | Registering Monet's curvature | £840 |
| 1/38 | Flying - homage to Giovanni di Paolo | £945 |
| 1/39 | Judith in the square | £945 |
| 1/40 | Truncate figure (The Y Front ones) | £1,600 |
| 1/43 | Girl feeds boy to Dragon | £2,500 |
| 1/48 | 'Take your delight' | £4,000 |
| 1/52 | Angel stretching her arms | £315 |
| 1/55 | Sharp prows hard against the tide | £1,500 |
| 1/67 | Marnie and her fabulous outfit | £150 |
| 1/69 | Nude passing through the eye of a noodle | £485 |
| 1/70 | When I am a horse | £365 |
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