Mr Turner and Me...
Expanded exhibition now on at Penzance Public Library from 1st November 2014, now extended by public demand until June 2015.
Read 'Mr Warren's Turner' on the PenwithLit review at http://penwithlit.wordpress.com/
Read further a film review on Mr Turner and wider discussions on this exhibition topic at: https://penwithlit.wordpress.com/category/art-exhibition-reviews/
In relation to JMW Turner… a reflection by Vaughan Warren (Royal Academy Schools)
I remember at the age of 6 drawing a sailing ship with its multiplicity of rigging using a Pentel Pen on a large A1 sheet of paper. It is still vivid in my mind as a statement of intent; that I had chosen to be an Artist. I don’t think anyone else could see it then, except me, and this is a perception I have accepted as an artist all my life; I see things differently; I am a Painter in the Grand Manner!
My work is difficult to read by some but never confused, a result of a discipline applied to the law of physics and chance through paint which demands a greater deal of rigour and thinking in harnessing energies to be both spontaneous yet critical in the emotional build up to a work, in its execution which is often rapid, and then contemplation over what has been done, and its place in my oeuvre.
I am from London as was Turner, living alongside the Thames at Barnes, a childhood family home, breathing in the mix of Ind Coope Brewery and tidal sludge at low tide as I imagined Turner did in his day at Chiswick and Isleworth; and it was always in the fading light that I would wend my way back to suburban stations to head back to nowhere land. I can still smell London…
I can smell London every time I see a Turner Painting in the National Gallery or V&A Museum. I can also smell and hear the sea, the wind and feel the rain. Turner’s brushstrokes are statements of feelings, expressions of extreme intent and purpose and it is to his works that I look for reference in the handling of colour, form and light to inform my own work.
Like Turner I went to The Royal Academy for 6 years to learn my craft; to then reject everything I had been told to find myself, my voice through a lifetime of Paint, Love and Wonderment
It was observed that the work on show in Penzance at the library, Redwing gallery and Unit A, Chapel Street covered a period of over 15 years of a personal dialogue with Turner through loaded brushstrokes of Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna, Black and a multitude of whites; Silver, Zinc, Lead, and Chalk applied with a rag, knife, or brush and most directly with the hand of the artist on the canvas or paper. The Painter, the Picture, are one. This conversation had started much earlier and will continue…
Turner never signed his work yet his mark is all over them; unmistakable; I continue this tradition of belief… in oneself and ones work.
VWRAS Nov. 14th 2014
Expanded exhibition now on at Penzance Public Library from 1st November 2014, now extended by public demand until June 2015.
Read 'Mr Warren's Turner' on the PenwithLit review at http://penwithlit.wordpress.com/
Read further a film review on Mr Turner and wider discussions on this exhibition topic at: https://penwithlit.wordpress.com/category/art-exhibition-reviews/
In relation to JMW Turner… a reflection by Vaughan Warren (Royal Academy Schools)
I remember at the age of 6 drawing a sailing ship with its multiplicity of rigging using a Pentel Pen on a large A1 sheet of paper. It is still vivid in my mind as a statement of intent; that I had chosen to be an Artist. I don’t think anyone else could see it then, except me, and this is a perception I have accepted as an artist all my life; I see things differently; I am a Painter in the Grand Manner!
My work is difficult to read by some but never confused, a result of a discipline applied to the law of physics and chance through paint which demands a greater deal of rigour and thinking in harnessing energies to be both spontaneous yet critical in the emotional build up to a work, in its execution which is often rapid, and then contemplation over what has been done, and its place in my oeuvre.
I am from London as was Turner, living alongside the Thames at Barnes, a childhood family home, breathing in the mix of Ind Coope Brewery and tidal sludge at low tide as I imagined Turner did in his day at Chiswick and Isleworth; and it was always in the fading light that I would wend my way back to suburban stations to head back to nowhere land. I can still smell London…
I can smell London every time I see a Turner Painting in the National Gallery or V&A Museum. I can also smell and hear the sea, the wind and feel the rain. Turner’s brushstrokes are statements of feelings, expressions of extreme intent and purpose and it is to his works that I look for reference in the handling of colour, form and light to inform my own work.
Like Turner I went to The Royal Academy for 6 years to learn my craft; to then reject everything I had been told to find myself, my voice through a lifetime of Paint, Love and Wonderment
It was observed that the work on show in Penzance at the library, Redwing gallery and Unit A, Chapel Street covered a period of over 15 years of a personal dialogue with Turner through loaded brushstrokes of Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna, Black and a multitude of whites; Silver, Zinc, Lead, and Chalk applied with a rag, knife, or brush and most directly with the hand of the artist on the canvas or paper. The Painter, the Picture, are one. This conversation had started much earlier and will continue…
Turner never signed his work yet his mark is all over them; unmistakable; I continue this tradition of belief… in oneself and ones work.
VWRAS Nov. 14th 2014
Mr.Turner and Me... a show by Vaughan Warren (RAS) to mark the release of the
'Mr Turner' film by Mike Leigh on 31st Oct. 2014; paintings now on show at the Penzance Library, Morrab Road, Redwing Gallery, Wood Street, Penzance, and currently upstairs at Unit A, The Arcade, Chapel Street, Penzance, Cornwall.
'Mr Turner' film by Mike Leigh on 31st Oct. 2014; paintings now on show at the Penzance Library, Morrab Road, Redwing Gallery, Wood Street, Penzance, and currently upstairs at Unit A, The Arcade, Chapel Street, Penzance, Cornwall.