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Inspiration from Artists Week 116 Featuring Artists : Lillie Seika Jones and Kevin Sinnott
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She has also published a book of her art. I just love her work, and to me it doesn’t really matter if I don’t know the story behind some of her paintings. I can just appreciate them for the beautiful works of art that they are, and maybe even imagine what tale they might be illustrating.
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by Jenny Harris
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Good Morning All.
Kevin Sinnott was born in Sarn, South Wales, in 1947.
He is a contemporary painter best known for his paintings of the life and people of South Wales where he now lives.
He studied at Cardiff College of Art and Design from 1967 to 1968, the Gloucester College of Art & Design from 1968 to 1971 and the Royal College of Art in London from 1971 to 1974.
He has had numerous one-person and group shows in the UK and around the world and his work is in major collections including the National Gallery of Wales, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Royal College of Art in London and the British Museum, as well as private and corporate collections worldwide.
I fell in love with his most famous work "Running Away with the Hairdresser'" on a visit to the National Gallery of Wales in Cardiff (see below) and unusually for me (based on my previous choices) he has a very impressionistic style. Please seek out his work - I hope you like it.
You can find his homepage at :
Kevin Sinnott home page
and a detailed CV including is list of shows at :
About Me (kevinsinnott.co.uk)
Note these are not https but http pages and the site doesn't appear to have been updated for a while.
"Running Away With The Hairdresser"
There is a short video of Kevin talking about this painting on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97b6oGji0m8
Other paintings I liked:
There are a number of historical paintings of South Wales done by Kevin but I'm unsure of the context for these. I like this one:
Other paintings I liked:
There are a number of historical paintings of South Wales done by Kevin but I'm unsure of the context for these. I like this one:
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by Andrew Roles
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This weeks choice of artists highlights the value of Dixie's original idea for this series of threads. Its purpose is inspiration. These two are inspirational. The first artist (Lily) paints fantasy art using line, watercolour and coloured pencil (my current favoured medium). So it's no surprise to me that I'd be inspired by her wonderful work. Andrew's choice is, in many respects, way outside my comfort zone. I think 'loosely' is the way to describe his painting method. Often I admire work painted this way, because it's beyond me. Sometimes I don't.
A quick look at his website tells me he mainly works from imagination, occasionally using his own en plein air sketches as references. I love his subject matter. 'Running away with the hairdresser' is a wonderfully simple concept, it could spawn a thousand images. 'Simple' is seldom easy to come up with.
I admire many of Andrew's choices, the one with the Lenin poster in it, is my favourite at the moment. When I have time, I'll take a deeper look at his work.
So for me, two great inspirational artists this week.
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He certainly seems to be a painter of movement. Despite his bright colours most of the on-line images one can find lack vibrancy. Very possibly the limitations of the camera and the computer, and an artist who needs to be seen in the flesh, so to speak. I was amused by this one, Green Wellies and Magenta Leggings.
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Here's one more that I like, mostly because of the unusual composition and the questions it raises - has he been run over by a lorry, who is the woman, why is he seemingly barefoot ?
This is a very large canvas (as with 'Hairdresser') : 156cm x 193cm (61.5in x 76in) so it would be something to behold in reality.
Add some people for reference...
I really admire how he handles crowd scenes....
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Fascinating paintings and Lew makes a very good point about size. Sinnott has found such wonderful subject matter and a very striking and different way of painting it with great movement. I think his work is superb and would love to see it in real life.
I found this on the Flowers Gallery website explaining the background to some of his paintings including the one with the Lenin flag.
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by Tessa Gwynne