FREE PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS

Caryl Bradford: Still Lives & Landscapes by Janet Scott January 26-31st in Chelsea Library, Chelsea Old Town Hall, Kings Road, SW3, Caryl Bradford Janet Scott Caryl Bradford Janet Scott February 3rd-21st at Duncan Campbell Gallery, 15 Thackeray Street, W8 (South of Kensington Court, opposite the Royal Garden Hotel), with Private View Tuesday 3rd February from 5.30-8.30 pm. to which all are invited. Best wishes from Janet.

CORRECTION These artworks were originally disaplayed as being by Diana Hulme but they are by William Fricker. SPANA want to put a couple or one picture by William Fricker into Foyles. The size is about 50 cm x 120 cm nframed. ARTWORK 1 ARTWORK 2 ARTWORK 3 ARTWORK 4

Pictures by Penelope Mac Ewen

A History of Free painters and Sculptors by Roy Rasmussen is posted at http://fpshistory.blogspot.com/

Exhibition ending on Friday the 19th December The Gallery at Willesden Green Brent Affordable Art Show 2008 Featuring a selection of emerging artists – Some artworks for less than £100 TheWall@TheGallery Can you see us? Students from North West College working with Brent Learning Disability Partnership The Gallery at Willesden Green Brent Affordable Art Show 2008 Featuring a selection of emerging artists – Some artworks for less than £100 Exhibition kindly supported by The London Borough of Brent and Daniel & Harris Solicitors Hot on the heels of the nation’s love affair with contemporary art, Brent will be breaking down the barriers to the art world by launching its very own third Brent Affordable Art Show, just in time for the festive season. Featuring work from emerging talent as well as established local artists, the Affordable Art Show will give visitors the opportunity to enjoy and ...

we are moving soon from macbean centre ....so greenwich mural workshop presents an exhibition of artworks 1975 to 2008 macbean centre macbean street woolwich parks tiles gardens posters playgrounds mosaics murals banners PRIVATE VIEW 15 DECEMBER 6 -9pm come by overground to woolwich arsenal - 5 mins walk come by tube from north greenwich by 272 or 161 come by any number of buses to woolwich to the stop by the station come by vehicle via the A206 to macbean street - then into centre car park tel: 020 8854 9266 email: carol@greenwichmuralworkshop.com now! mon15th to sat 20th december 1 to 6 pm See Pdf flyer at gmwexhibition3 URGENT - PRESS RELEASE MAJOR PUBLIC ART EXHIBITION 1 December 2008 After 20 years, Greenwich Mural Workshop is closing down its Woolwich premises in December. In one last splendid retrospective, an exhibition of its artistic production including posters, banners, mosaics, carnivals, playgrounds, parks and gardens can be seen at its Woolwich studio in the MacBean Cen...

Geoff Pimlott ARWS "RIMG0299" THE POET AND THE PAINTER, Bankside Gallery SE1, 13th-30th November 2008 review by Phillip Worth My search for FPS members who are exhibiting in the London area and the South East so that their activities can be publicised and their work reviewed, took me recently to Bankside Gallery where Geoff Pimlott was taking part in a fascinating show entitled ‘The Poet and the Painter.’ But a word first about the Royal Watercolour Society who have mounted this exhibition. RWS faces both ways: back into a distinguished past where it has long nurtured work in a medium not (in its opinion) accorded the status it deserves by an oil-obsessed Royal Academy; and forward to a future teeming with new ideas, such as this show, but always revolving round watercolour’s unique properties as a medium for artistic expression. Bankside Gallery, the RWS ‘home’, is an elegant venue for its many events, in no way fazed by its proximity to Tate Modern. Exhibitions apart the S...

AIME MAEGHT AND HIS ARTISTS Royal Academy of Art, Sackler Wing Till 2nd January 2009 This exhibition is concerned mainly with the work of four artists: Joan Miro, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti and Georges Braque. All are ‘stars’ of the Aime Maeght Foundation near St. Paul de Vence in the South of France, an extraordinary institution which is part gallery, part museum, part workshops and part printing and publishing house, conceived and driven to completion in 1964 by the art dealer cum art lover cum visionary cum entrepreneur Aime Maeght. Maeght did not simply collect the work of modern artists, he befriended them, gave them gallery and studio space and, above all, expanded their creative outlets by way of introducing them to printing techniques, notably lithography, and book production and publication. He held one man exhibitions at the Foundation (as well as at his gallery in Paris), and for each of these produced a catalogue illustrated by the exhibiting artist. A man for all...

Brent Affordable Art Show 2008 Group show for BAR members. There will be a cabinet for small items. Daniel and Harris Solicitors will give three prizes: £150, £100 and £75 18th November to 19th December 2008 at THE GALLERY AT WILLESDEN GREEN, WILLESDEN GREEN LIBRARY CENTRE, 95 HIGH ROAD, LONDON NW10 2SF Tel: 0208 459 1421 Email: info@brentartistsresource.org.uk SEND IN DATES: Hand in work on Friday 14th November 3.00-6.00pm or on Saturday 15th November 3.00-6.00pm at The Gallery PRIVATE VIEW: Thursday 20th November 6.00 – 8.00pm. ENTRY CONDITIONS: Open to members: Maximum of 5 works per artist, £6 per work. Membership (if you aren't already) is £20(£13 concessions), payable when entering work. All work must be ready for hanging, framed and mounted, with D-rings attached to the back of the work. No clip, metal or plastic frames or non-reflecting glass. We use a hanging system with nylon strings. Small 3-D pieces for the cabinet. £4 each for up to 5 pieces per artist. Th...

Big Draw exhibition at the Troubadour Gallery: October 2008 http://www.troubadour.co.uk/gallery.html

People arrived gradually and after the formalities we sat down and really introduced ourselves. Shirley asked us to sit in a circle and to share our names and the journey we had had that morning and what we wanted out of the day. Some people shared that they believed fervently that everyone was creative and that not having an outcome would free them up to get more in touch with their inner creativity. One person shared how she wanted to access her creative side having felt so far in her life too confined in the logical deductive processes of the mind. Our morning incorporated working with clay. Shirley made it clear that the objects madewere not important in the sense of their final outcome. In fact as I sat there I felt drawn inside myself, strangely in touch with a vulnerability I had not anticipated feeling. The clay seemed to direct my hands as I found the shapes, rather than seeming to make them. Continuing on the theme of ‘Journey’, using creative imagination, we visualised an in...

Come and see an exhibition of Harry's 90th of painting done over the years at St Paul Village Hall on Sat & Sun 4th & 5th October from 2-6pm. One third of sale prices to "The Three Village Trust" and one third to "Hospice for Children in Cornwall". Contact. Harry Sales, Four Winds,Mousehole Lane,Paul,Penzance, Cornwall TR19 6TY tel 01736 731997

Len Wyatt in this studio. When Len Wyatt passed away earlier this year after a long illness FPS was saddened to lose one of its most brilliantly inventive artists. Len began his training at the Hornsey College of Art when still a teenager, but then war broke out and he spent the next six years of his life in khaki, taking part in the D-Day landings in 1944. After demob he had no difficulty in deciding his future course and resumed his studies at Hornsey, graduating in the early ‘fifties. He soon linked up with the Free Painters Group in its very early days and remained and active member until poor health forced his retirement at the turn of the century. Len gave his all to FPS, not only his riveting artwork in countless group and solo exhibitions, but his huge energy and enthusiasm which helped to mould its destinies. And, in a way, his approach to his own work echoed the sacred objects of FPS – to strive for originality with excellence and, above all, to be completely free in style an...