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Representational -Traditional
Discourse on trad art
The response to the most recent of my posts has been very gratifying and encouraging. My main reason for posting these images is to join the huge number of artists on this site who paint/draw in a way that I believe shows the vast pool of talent that exists, frequently ignored by the "art world" in general and often dismissed by commercial galleries. Thus the heading of this blog. This was how my work was described by one gallery when declining to show my work. They were, they said, "going more contemporary". I've never been entirely sure what the covers. It does seem that all too often coloured designs and awkward images end up on the walls. Now I'm no Alfred Munnings (either in temperament or talent) but his rant at the RA dinner all those years ago does seem to echo down the years. Art is a broad church and there is room for all. I does seem however that those of us who work in a traditional manner , concerning ourselves with portraying light, colour, perspective, drama and story telling are presently out of favour. My own specialisation of aviation art has produced some magnificent painters over the years and the top artist of today create the most astonishing and imaginative art - dismissed as mere illustration by many. The importance of marine art seems also to have diminished and so we loose sight of the talents of so many magnificent artists of the not so distant past. Happily, I have found a gallery that likes what I do and who have made a successful business of selling traditional art for the past for decades. I wish there were more like them. In the meantime a most enormous thank you to all of you who have taken the time and trouble to comment so favourably on my paintings. It is a great boost to morale and makes me even more determined to keep on b.....ing on as Churchill once said.
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