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Category: Art

Home > <a href="https://www.jameswoodward.online/category/blog/">Blog</a> > Archive by category "Category: <span>Art</span>"

The Spanish Gallery and the Auckland Project

Posted on 14 December 202418 April 2025 by James Woodward
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  I am a child of the North born and schooled in County Durham with my roots firmly embedded in the Mining Industry. My Father worked at East Hetton Pit in Kelloe and then was transferred to Easington when the Village pit was closed in 1983. I have vivid memories of his work and its […]
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The invitation to be surprised? Art that touches the pulse.

Posted on 25 July 2024 by James Woodward
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I first came across the work of Barbara Hepworth in 1980 during a visit to Aldeburgh. I had gone on a weekend party to a friend’s house on Crag Path which is the sea front road that’s offers an uninterrupted view of the North Sea. The town became famous because of its connection with Benjamin […]
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Space, Colour and Form in Kettles Yard : Reading Ways of Life by Laura Freeman

Posted on 30 July 2023 by James Woodward
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This book was a present from a friend who had seen that I had visited Kettles Yard some few months ago. I have been hanging onto to it so that I can read slowly and carefully without interruption. What a treat it is ! I should say that I need no convincing of this space […]
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Lingering Ghosts and the challenges of Public Art

Posted on 23 August 201725 August 2017 by James Woodward
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  For those of you who know Sarum College you will be aware that we have a long tradition of exhibiting Art. At the moment we are showing some arresting and disturbing portraits crafted by Sam Ivin (pictured above) Sam Ivin is a photographer whose work focuses on social issues and the people connected with […]
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The Windows

Posted on 27 June 2015 by James Woodward
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  The Windows       Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word? He is a brittle crazie glasse: Yet in thy temple thou dost him afford This glorious and transcendent place, To be a window, through thy grace.     But when thou dost anneal in glasse thy storie, Making thy life to […]
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Miro on Ageing

Posted on 30 May 2015 by James Woodward
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PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS AN OLD MAN When artist Joan Miro was 24 years old, he predicted that he would do his best work in old age. The exhibition, “Joan Miro: Instinct and Imagination,” documents the work he did in his 70’s and 80’s.  In keeping with the idea of positive aging, Miro described […]
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Auckland Castle

Posted on 28 December 2014 by James Woodward
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I have very vivid memories of visiting Auckland Castle as a sixth form student beginning to wonder about my vocation to the ordained ministry in the Church of England. At a young people’s gathering in the Throne room of this imposing building I remember the Bishop of Durham, John Habgood, addressing us in a simple […]
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The genious of Gormley

Posted on 31 August 2014 by James Woodward
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 I was determined to make a significant   detour during  August to see some public sculpture on Crosby beach and this short piece gives me an opportunity to show off some of my photographs. The journey to Liverpool  was not in vain and  I was able to glimpse again at first hand the sheer genius of […]
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Vacation Surprises : (1) Craigie Aitchison in Glass

Posted on 19 August 2014 by James Woodward
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  I travelled up to London during my summer holiday to attend a wonderful celebration of marriage of Robin and Sezgi Amos at St Mary the Bolton’s in Chelsea. It was a sunny day and I managed to arrive at the church early to catch up with friends. As I wandered around the church building […]
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intricate

Posted on 12 July 2014 by James Woodward
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  intricate Intricate and untraceable weaving and interweaving, dark strand with light: designed, beyond all spiderly contrivance, to link, not to entrap: elation, grief, joy, contrition, entwined; shaking, changing, forever forming, transforming: all praise, all praise to the great web. Denise Levertov, Web  
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roses in sunlight

Posted on 11 July 2014 by James Woodward
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  roses in sunlight Our sense of these things changes and they change, Not as in metaphor, but in our sense Of them. So sense exceeds all metaphor. It exceeds the heavy changes of the light. It is like a flow of meanings with no speech And of as many meanings as of men. We […]
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Peter Lanyon

Posted on 8 July 2014 by James Woodward
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I love surprising discoveries. As a very enjoyable lunch last week in a London restaurant in Notting Hill this particular picture captured my imagination. I was sitting opposite it and amazed at its rhythmic and soothing effect. Painted by a Cornishman, influenced by American abstract Expressionists (especially Jackson Pollock) Lanyon is  rooted in the Cornish […]
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Peter Lanyon

Posted on 8 July 2014 by James Woodward
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I love surprising discoveries. As a very enjoyable lunch last week in a London restaurant in Notting Hill this particular picture captured my imagination. I was sitting opposite it and amazed at its rhythmic and soothing effect. Painted by a Cornishman, influenced by American abstract Expressionists (especially Jackson Pollock) Lanyon is  rooted in the Cornish […]
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thy fearful symmetry

Posted on 13 June 2014 by James Woodward
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  angel tiger Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry  ? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare sieze the fire? When the stars threw down their […]
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Image of the Week : Henry Moore – Uprightinternal/External Form

Posted on 5 May 2014 by James Woodward
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Let us return?

Posted on 29 April 2014 by James Woodward
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  ultimate blue   Let us return to imperfection’s school. No longer wandering after Plato’s ghost, Seeking the garden where all fruit is flawless, We must at last renounce that ultimate blue And take a walk in other kinds of weather.   From Adrienne Rich, Stepping backward  
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Image of the week : Black on Maroon by Rothko

Posted on 28 April 2014 by James Woodward
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This painting comes from one of three series of canvases painted by Rothko in 1958-9 in response to a commission for murals for the small dining room of the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York. The Four Seasons, one of the smartest restaurants in the city, is in the Seagram Building, a celebrated classic modern […]
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Image of the week: A Busy Life by Dubuffett

Posted on 21 April 2014 by James Woodward
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  Painted in August 1953. It is one of the series of paintings known as ‘Beaten Pastes’ (Pâtes battues) executed between March and December 1953 of which Dubuffet has written: ‘These paintings are done with a smooth light coloured (almost white) paste, fairly thick, spread unevenly and rapidly with a plasterer’s knife over layers already […]
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sunflowers and our search for the divine?

Posted on 14 October 2013 by James Woodward
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  attain God… he said, then realised it had been done with nothing but sunflowers   from Nicolette Stasko, Conseil de Gauguin (advice from Gauguin)
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Ways into death and its narratives

Posted on 24 September 2013 by James Woodward
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  Quietus: The vessel, death and the human body An exhibition by Julian Stair Winchester Cathedral Autumn 2013 FB friends will have seen some (not very good) photographs of Winchester Cathedral caused in part by a failure to take my specs on my journey ! However the main reason for the visit south was to […]
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