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‘Literature’ – An exhibition of work by 14 artists and the books which influenced them. October 2022

I’ve been touched and fascinated by the books that the artists showing in my show ‘Literature’ have chosen. @maricecumber choice is no exception. Of course I cannot add to words like this, so for once I am going to shut up and sit quietly and think and pray for some of the other people in this world who are also currently being persecuted. Full descriptions of Marice’s wonderful works are on her Instagram page and link is also in my bio. The show opens in Cheltenham tomorrow - private view from 6-9pm do come and join for a drink! 🥂

Having had the joy of placing a couple of @katesgiles works in client’s homes recently, I was delighted when she agreed to show with me at my show ‘ Literature’ that runs this week and next alongside the Cheltenham Literature Festival. Giles’s chosen book is ‘The Peregrine by J A Baker’:

I am so delighted to share this wonderful reel by @charles.inge who illustrates perfectly the idea behind my show ‘Literature’ - a group show of work by 14 artists and the books which influenced them (it was his idea in the first place so it is no wonder he has nailed the reel 😂).

Filippo Caramazza is one of my absolute favourite painters ever. I bought one for each of my children when they were born as forever pieces. Filippo has sent me the quote from the book that inspires the painting. He refuses to comment further other than “I don’t want to preempt people’s experience of the the painting or text. The quote speaks for itself. The text is from ‘ The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa’

I often cry when I go to @gillrocca studio. There is a sense of such utter calm and serenity it is a space in which, for the time I am there, I can escape my normal world with its thousands of to do lists and it’s stresses and worries. I cry because the work is beautiful - for the paint of course but also because it has a beautiful soul. I cry with the joy of seeing the work but mostly of the feeling the work. They are tears of all sorts of things mixed in there I realise - of awe, wonder, transcendence, silence, the sublime, maybe some relief that yes, for a moment, my world has stopped. So I cry anyway but of course I sobbed when I read about the book Gill had chosen and why. I have Gill’s permission to share this here and I hope (maybe she hopes although she is way too humble to say that) that these words give comfort to others who have or are experiencing grief or a loss - that endings do, with enough time, lead to new beginnings. I am honoured that Gill is showing these with me at my show ‘Literature’ in Cheltenham next week. All welcome to come and sit and lose yourself in these works. Link is in bio for these special works.

I stumbled across @jameshawkepainter in a fishing shed in Norfolk more years ago than I care to admit. And I am absolutely over the moon that he has agreed to paint some more works from his luminous ‘Poolside’ series for my show ‘Literature’ which starts next week in Cheltenham. These are works you can engage with on many levels - of course as landscapes that take you back to a memory or a personal experience, but look longer and you start looking at them as studies of colour, repetition, rhythm and form. Look some more and yes, you start to get closer to the insight Hawke provides us when he talks about his chosen book - Greek Pastoral Poetry (Penguin Classics).

@reedelizabethwilson invited me to her show and one proud tea towel painting owner later (in my kitchen making me smile and love every day) I was over the moon to know there was another one in the offing and that Wilson agreed to show it in my show ‘Literature’ which runs in parallel (temporally and actually in spatially!) to Cheltenham Literature festival from Oct 5th. Wilson’s work is not only beautifully painted but it’s also laden with dry wit and clever observation. This work is called ‘Ideal Home’. An ‘ideal’ purchase in my view for all of us women who spend way too many hours in the kitchen and if they are anything like me are mostly failing at living up to remotely anything close to the ‘Ideal Home’. I could go about this for hours but I do want to share the words and the book that Wilson has chosen - The Small Pleasures of Life, Philippe Delerm (La Premiere Gorgee et Autres Plaisirs Minuscules – The Fist Sip of Beer and other Tiny Pleasures).

I have been mesmerised by @helenkincaid8 ever since I discovered her work I think here on Instagram! A personal purchase and a studio visit later and I am even more mesmerised - for me these are works of profound beauty that demand and reward quiet contemplation. I am delighted to be showing these two absolute beauties at my show ‘Literature’ in Cheltenham from October 5th through to 16th. Kincaid has selected the book Austerliz by W.G. Sebald. “The writer who has most influence on me would have to be W.G Sebald, and if I were to choose one book it would be Austerlitz (2001). Like many of his books, with the photograph playing a central role, it is a quest to piece together a story, Austerltiz uprooted as part of the Kindertransport, attempts to discover his past and sense of self. Sebald’s use of grainy fragmentary snapshots together with his spare, precise text belies the mesmeric, labyrinthine journey we embark on with Austerlitz, fact and fiction blur, conjuring the haunting dislocation he experiences.

So @madikavanagh.art is a recent graduate of @inspiredaub and has just started her MA @camberwellfineartsculpture. She is one of the most painterly graduate painters I’ve had the pleasure of meeting in more years than I wish to admit. Having sold her graduate work to two very happy clients and having seen their joy and how stunning it looks in their home, I decided to show three more from the series in my show ‘Literature’, which runs alongside Cheltenham Literature Festival and starts in less than two weeks. Kavanagh is the only recent graduate in a field of extremely talented and experienced painters. She has picked a beautiful poem ‘ High Flight’ by Pilot John G Magee Jr:

An absolutely huge thanks and hug goes to @amystephensstudio for donating this absolutely beautiful bronze for the @targetovarian auction. I am allowed to take bids on this prior to the auction and I have a couple of things to say. Firstly this is a classic iconic Stephen’s piece that would look beautiful in so many places in a home (I would love it for my desk!) and secondly I think Amy is one of the most exciting sculptors coming up rapidly through the ranks - so whoever wins this is going to be very lucky indeed. Stephens explains “This sculpture depicts a wooden billet that has been sourced, collected and cast in solid bronze. The piece is highly

Find this on Tik Tok for the full video. This is of people seeing colour for the first time and it is absolutely adorable and humbling. I am completely deaf at the moment and seeing this made me so grateful that I have, at the very least, my sight.

I am delighted to be showing the fantastic work of @lou_bristow in my group show ‘Literature’ that is running alongside the Cheltenham Literature Festival this year (Oct 5th to 16th). I first found Bristow’s work last year at a show curated by the brilliant @juliette_losq and so was delighted when Jennifer from @j_lgallery sent me this sneak peak of the painting for the show being painted. Jennifer is friends with Bristow and had spotted I was showing her and had just been over for a coffee and so sent me a picture of the painting in progress. A very small art world! 😂 I have become completely fixated with zooming in on the model that Bristow has constructed to then paint. When the finished painting is ready I will be posting it with the full description of how Bristow’s work relates to the book ‘ The Master and the Margarita by Milhaud Bulgakov’.

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