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This is the second of two paintings in this colour scheme and also the second of six paintings I’m currently working on. These six paintings are meant to bring together all of the development work I have been carrying out over the past year. In a way you could say they are a manifesto for my view of formal abstract expressionism.

Untitled

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This is the first of two paintings in this colour scheme and also the first of six paintings I'm currently working on. These six paintings are meant to bring together all of the development work I have been carrying out over the past year. In a way you could say they are a manifesto for my view of formal abstract expressionism.

Banksy, guerrilla artist or showman

Banksy has his latest show on in LA at the moment, I'm not going to review it because I'm not likely to find myself in LA anytime soon so if you've seen it feel free to comment. But it did make me look at his work in more detail to see what I thought and mostly I'd say he made me laugh. Most of what he does is humorous with a political or social edge and for me is as much entertainment as anything else. Looking at early reviews of the latest show and in particular the painted elephant I do wonder whether fame and fortune have made their mark though. The inevitable pressure to scale up seems to have taken its toll and he's starting to look like the graffitti equivalent of Damien Hurst. Stick with the small stuff Banksy, guerrilla war is all about hit and run!Banksy website - Worth a look.BBC review of latest show

End Times by Jill Greenberg

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This exhibition of Photographs of children crying is getting a bit of stick at the moment because Jill had to make the children cry by taking a lollypop she had given them away. In my view although there is a tiny element of cruelty involved this is by no means abuse. The children where given the lollypop back after a few seconds, their parents had given prior permission and the children where paid for the session!The photographs are actually what I would call super real photographs because there has been quite a lot of post production work carried out on them. For me the result is great, I think these pictures express something of what a lot of us are feeling about the world at the moment.Jill Greenberg, End Times at Paul Kopeikin GalleryJill Greenberg

What's on the easel 090906

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Here is a new small painting under production. I am experimenting with the use of a single expressionist technique (the stripes) as a background.

What's on the wall 09/09/06

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Here are two new large paintings almost finished. They are part of a series of six currently under production.