This week has mostly been about the recent and indeed new Skyline paintings…

cult_insertv02 — Insert (Title Here), Shipton Street Gallery, London, March 2020,

This week has mostly been about the recent and indeed new Skyline paintings, an ongoing series of painting that that has been evolving since late summer last year. This week a wall of them can be seen hasnging as part of the lastest Cultivate group show, a show called Insert (Title Here) that is currently taking place at Shipton Street Gallery here in East London down by Columbia Road. The shoe opened last Thursday, there’s a whole load of photos and a piece I wrote about the other artists on the Organ website – ORGAN THING: Cultivate’s Insert (Title Here) opened last night, a whip, a Germanica Caeruleum, some brutalism and some very edible paint… – this website is of course not about my curation side or my writing side, and so, even though the Cultivate show are curated my myself and fellow painter Emma Harvey, this website is all about my art, the things I draw or paint or install or…

sw_hang_insert_march20_1 — A collection of Slyline paintings at the Insert (Title Here) at Shipton Street Gallery, East London

And so there is currently a wall of Skyline paintings hanging on the wall (and indeed on sale) at Shipton Street Gallery. And as the better light kicks in and we finally emerge in to Spring and longer days and better light I imagine there will be more exploring of the space above the buildings, te shapes of the buildings, more exploring the tops of things, more looking up

“London Skyline – The Southbank From Waterloo Bridge (No. 2) – March 2020, acrylic on canvas, 50cm x 20cm. The ongoing matter of looking up. By the way, did you know Waterloo Bridge was almost entirely built by women?

sw_skyline_sthbank3_mar20_2 — “London Skyline – The Southbank From Waterloo Bridge (No. 2) – March 2020, acrylic on canvas, 50cm x 20cm

A new piece, “Margate skyline No.9 (The Turner Contemporary)” – March 2020 – acrylic on canvas, 20cm x 50cm, this one is curently up on the wall at Shipton Street and will be until the end of March…

sw_margate_turner_march20 — “Margate skyline No.9 (The Turner Contemporary)” – March 2020 – acrylic on canvas, 20cm x 50cm

sw_skyline_sthbank3_mar20 — “London Skyline – The Southbank From Waterloo Bridge (No. 3) – March 2020, acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 40cm

Click on an image to enlarge or to run the slide show, all work is on sale do feel free to ask for details. there hasn;t been time to add the pieces to the on-line shop yet The show itself will now run until the end of March.