Jam on Sundays

Once there was marmalade - now there is the Old Jam Factory Gallery and cafe and a lovely exhibition of Piper prints. What better way to spend a very wet Sunday than snugged up on their sofa drinking hot chocolate and watching the excellent Goldmark Gallery DVD on the work of John Piper.

This exhibition has transferred from the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham. Goldmark is a great gallery for 20th century art and the owner has the most wonderful habit of drawing you in, thrusting a glass of wine in your hand and inviting you for lunch.



The very young curator of the Jam Factory said there had been a lot of criticism of the hang and the intrusion of domestic items - honestly how can people be so narrow - it perfectly suited the Piper prints. You only have to look at Kettle's Yard to see how the domestic setting works so well for art.

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Be careful what you wish for!

I am going to be no picture dealer. Fresh from my triumph when my purchase of a picture at Art Jerico was echoed by the Keeper of Western Art, I left a bid for a stack of pictures at Mallams. Should I have been warned by the bonfire arrangement, the lack of a lot number, I surely should have been.


So be careful what you wish for - my bid was successful, indeed it was the only bid! Very expectant friend, who had collected said lot, and was very taken aback by the quantity, started out perched on edge of seat with excitement and was reduced to lying on seat groaning no ,no, surely not...... Oh dear, severe loss of face. But some are not so bad, very retro-chic, very shabby chic, very very suitable for a kitchen gallery.......


BUT, and there is a tiny shining but .... the mirror purchased for a song at Willingham Auctions, sold at Mallams for a `boarding out of the attic'. A major triumph as I had not intended to buy it in the first place but waved a bacon butty at entirely the wrong moment. After tripping over it for some months I offered it to a friend who then forgot to collect it, so I bunged it in to the auction. It took them some time to convince me it sold for what it did!. So this must be the trick, buy something by accident and try to give it away - perfect credentials for a picture dealer.

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Mysterious connections.

I love pictures that have an enigmatic quality, you can only imagine the narrative. When I saw this tiny picture in a gallery in Southwold I just had to buy it. Is this woman waiting for someone to arrive or merely lost in thought; is she happy or sad - we have no way of knowing. Ambiguity and emotional content are highlighted by the intensity of the light that floods through it. Painted by Annabel Mednick (who has a current exhibition at Byard Art in Cambridge), this picture immediately captivates all those who look at it. (annabelmednick.blogspot.com).


This little picture is part of an exhibition at Art Jericho (artjericho.com) which we visited today for the private view. The artist, who was present, is 90 year old Thurza Simmons whose work just glows on the walls with a jewel like quality that made me think of the Mednick. This picture is particularly special but was (unfortunately) only on loan from a private collection. Simmons has shown at the RA and says that "though the composition and the shimmer of light brings people and objects into relationship, yet they do not engage with each other. Rather we see them absorbed in their private inner worlds".



This sense of a private inner world saturates this picture called "The Question". This image really does not do it justice, it was for sale and I am eating baked beans for the next month.
An afterthought..... putting a picture purchase on your blog is a bit like shooting yourself in the foot, now how am I supposed to say "what this old thing, had it for ages, typical you never notice anything" - which is my normal and, usually, highly successful response.

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J.W. Waterhouse, The Modern Pre-Raphaelite

Waterhouse exhibition at the Royal Academy - 29th August, 2009
(I had poster reproductions of these when I was 17 - easy to dismiss as romantic wallpaper but Waterhouse drew strongly on the work of the Impressionists - the Lady of Shalott glides through a very real English riverscape. Waterhouse women are of "singular beauty both natural and unattainable ... the femme fatale is a constant presence in his work". No pressure then!

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Pictures

Feel very chuffed with my Anita Klein nude with birdbath - not sure what it says about me but I love its wacky charm. Running out of space for pictures. The large pot of autumnal flowers is by Richard Bawden, son of the designer and artist Edward Bawden. His work can be seen in the Fry Art Gallery in Saffron Walden, a delightful Victorian Gallery which specialises in the work of a group of artists working in that part of Essex. Well worth a vist - a lovely collection of Eric Ravilious's work and also the work of contemporary artists.

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