
“The Ridley Road Lemon ” – a short series of studies. I do love Ridley Road Market, one of the best things about doing shows at BSMT Space over in Dalston is having to walk through the market a couple of times every day. I bought a bag of about 50 bananas for a pound last week and yer man on the stall said “here painter man, have a lemon to paint”, said lemon had been demanding I paint it all week, there’s a pleasure in trying to paint a lemon quickly, these three hour-long studies were painted over the weekend, painted on pieces that were already evolving, canvases and piece of wood that were waiting for a taste of lemon. I might painting it again tonight, then again I might go buy an orange…
[…] working as an artist if you’re not going to reflect the place you are licing and working, the Ridley Road Lemon was where the Fruit shop paintings started, back at the start of 2019 I wrote ““The Ridley […]