Second Wind: Showing new paintings at Lady Bay Arts

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A new series of paintings under overall title ‘Second Wind’ will be on show at 117 Holme Road,  Lady Bay on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th May 12-6pm.

Lady Bay Arts Website : http://www.ladybayarts.org.uk/

I am at Venue 16 on map.

See map here : LADY BAY MAP PDF

The location is the lovely house of my old friends the Hitchmen. I look forward to welcoming people to the front room which will be 80s themed with music from that era as that what I listening to when painting the pictures :-).

 

Indeed the series of new abstracts take the Creation Record sleeves art of the mid 1980s as their starting point. Series are then titled 1977, 1985, etc…

Record Sleeve for Creation Records 1985 more here:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/1624419/Creation-Record-Covers

 

Why call it Second Wind?

Documented experiences of the second wind go back at least 100 years, when it was taken to be a commonly held fact of exercise. The phenomenon has come to be used as a metaphor for continuing on with renewed energy past the point thought to be one’s prime, whether in other sports, careers, or life in general.

1980: Music and Art – the soundtrack

It is only now that I made the connection between music and painting…which some 30 years too late as the cover to ‘She Comes From the Rain’ effortlessly did this in 1985. As I trying to be in studio actually painting as much as possible..as opposed to thinking about it..I been building soundtracks for my painting. Today I looked back at 1980 and took the above corresponding sounds for this week..last week it was 1977.

Fascinating to look back at 1980 as it was second year of my degree at Hornsey and I was drumming (allegedly) for art school band ‘Damp Jungle’ then. Music seemed pretty exciting that year with Teardrop Explodes, Birthday Party and Orange Juice all issuing seminal 45s :-).