| exhibition archive The Discerning Eye Exhibition 2006 15th exhibition ~ 16 to 26 November 2006 Small works of art are liable to provoke dismissal on the grounds that 'small' is another word for petty or trivial. Under 20 inches (framed) is the Discerning Eye stipulation, which is six times the size required by, say Thomas Bewick for his Tynedale vignettes or William Blake for his wood engravings for Thornton's "Virgil". So small's no problem, not unless you want to overwhelm the viewer from a distance. Small's acoustic and unamplified. That said, certain sorts of painting and drawing (and indeed larger-than-netsuke sculpture) fail to operate properly on a small or miniature scale. (A recent Belgian-led fashion for folio-size studies of dim little memories expressed in flashy beige has involved trying to make a virtue of modest proportions but, generally speaking, this type of reticence has proved disproportionately trite.) Happily, of course, Corot or Constable sketches, van Eyck heads, Leonardo deluges, Picasso fingernail skits are engrossing not least because their immediacy is a sort of intimacy. Choosing works for this Discerning Eye selection has been a pleasure partly because the size restriction is an aid to concentration. I trust that what's been chosen is lively enough & vivid enough to prove – as all good art does - completely vital. | 5/1 | Kermit was right | £1,450 |
| 5/2 | Summer study 1 - light through trees | £2,000 |
| 5/3 | Summer study 2 - saplings in front of broom | £2,000 |
| 5/4 | Eagle Hill, Kerry | £1,800 |
| 5/5 | Bonfire studies - third of five | £2,000 |
| 5/6 | Melting snow in the orchard | £1,500 |
| 5/7 | Second of two studies of flowering gorse | £1,200 |
| 5/8 | Crossing Times Square | £450 |
| 5/10 | I laugh to myself | £505 |
| 5/15 | Girl in a spot dress | £3,200 |
| 5/17 | Dark Iris - night | £2,200 |
| 5/18 | Bind Weed at sunset | £2,300 |
| 5/20 | Michael's wild Robin | £3,000 |
| 5/21 | Self portrait at Lulworth Cove | £1,800 |
| 5/22 | Oya's emerald portrait | £1,500 |
| 5/23 | View from Primrose Hill | £980 |
| 5/25 | Plazac Church in the Dordogne | £950 |
| 5/29 | Connecticut, Spring | £1,880 |
| 5/31 | Connecticut April | £1,880 |
| 5/32 | Artist learning to skate | £1,900 |
| 5/36 | David in the garden, Menton | £500 |
| 5/37 | Church and trees, Normandy | £600 |
| 5/38 | Two trees, Balleroy | £500 |
| 5/39 | Path to the orchard, Normandy | £500 |
| 5/40 | Fallen apple tree | £600 |
| 5/41 | Haggerston Park memory | £600 |
| 5/44 | Farm house, Balleroy | £400 |
| 5/45 | Balleroy town and fields | £360 |
| 5/46 | Balleroy landscape | £400 |
| 5/47 | Study for the Hotel Atlantis | £800 |
| 5/51 | Chateau de Balleroy | £400 |
| 5/52 | Luxmore's in the rain | £300 |
| 5/53 | Cloud shadow on The Downs | £375 |
| 5/54 | Abandoned Shed 1 | £1,850 |
| 5/55 | Abandoned Shed 2 | £1,850 |
| 5/56 | Abandoned Shed 3 | £1,850 |
| 5/57 | Abandoned Shed 4 | £1,850 |
| 5/58 | Street market, Normandy | £338 |
| 5/61 | Girl and dog at Normandy Harbour | £255 |
| 5/64 | Travels in Iran, Eram Gardens, Shiraz | £450 |
| 5/65 | Travels in Iran, Achaemenid Tombs | £450 |
| 5/67 | Ferguson tractor, Suffolk | £240 |
| 5/69 | New England house | £600 |
| 5/70 | New England house 2 | £600 |
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