A Pretty Picture Life is very stressful and fast, especially here in our capital city London. With very little time for ourselves life passes us by before we realise it. Artist Allan Storer's remedy is to simply paint. Its more than daubing a few brush marks on a canvas or a a pretty picture he says, it can be a psychological journey and like Leonora Carrington in her painting "The Inn of a Dawn Horse" it can say a lot about what you really, really want? Do you want to sit on the fence all your life? walk in the centre lane and get knocked down in both directions ? OR Like Leonora Carrington Find and Be the Real You? One painting class, Allan Storer says is basically a gym session for your creative vibes, stimulating your intellectual prowess and sense of self and this is just a beginning ! Painting stimulates both the right and left sides of the brain. On the left we have the rational, logical challenges – like structure and composition and on the left,
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Ruskin Has It In For Turner
Ruskin Has It In For Turner Unlike Turner, Constable has to wait years before he is elected to the Royal Academy, 52 years old to be precise. His critics view him as too parochial, only painting his local Sussex landscapes and villages compared to Turner who addresses historical events, technological advances and foreign climes . This doesn't stop Constable describing Turner's work as “ just steam and light” and Turner to retaliate. "I am the great lion of the day Family loving Constable ( married to a Vicar's daughter and seven children) becomes a teeny bit despondent now and then with a lack of English fans telling his biographer a chap named Varley he is no artist’. . Art critic Ruskin “puts the boot" in too, saying Constable could not draw and his work lacks the feeling and accuracy of the natural world, Constable misses “the majesty of storm and the loveliness of calm weather” for Ruskin calling his work a “ great coat of weather “