Snapped by Johnny Peckham in Soho Square, this image conveys something of the madcappery and busyness of life in central London.
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Portraits by Doodle Pip
Doodle Pip has a philosophy of art quite unlike any other artist working either today or in the past. As a portraitist like Rembrandt, Warhol or Murillo they are interested in creating works based on clients. But there the similarity ends.
If my picture looks too much like the sitter, I start again. I want to convey nothing of the subject.
Doodle Pip, portraitist
Doodle Pip creates unique works that – at their best – look nothing like the sitter. If the sitter can be recognised then they feel that their work has failed.
“There is a wonderful freedom to Pip’s work. It is the biggest step forward in fine art since the invention of egg tempura. To have thrown out completely any attempt at verisimilitude is to have thrown out art history. Pip reminds us of what art was like before art was art. I have a picture of my husband by Pip and it looks nothing like him. We couldn’t be more pleased; it is our favourite work in our collection and the only one I would save in a fire. And we have seven Botticellis and a Simone Serratio, so that is saying something.”
Walla Von Munchen, art critic and part-time fire-fighter (grade 3 – bungalows only)
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New Bin work! Summer Bin (Overflowing)
They just get better and better. Here we have a succinct summary of modern life, all in one frame. The overwork, the pain, greed, overweightery and individuality bursting out from its confines. Oboe speaks to the human condition. Her medium here might be bins, but the subtext is nothing less than Aristotelian. Go Oboe! Keep the bins coming!
Untitled (Wimbledon Common from above) – New abstract work from Ptolemy
What a fire cracker of a work! Ptolemy hits it out of the All-England Club once again with his meditation on existence and grass. “July is when I watch more tennis than any other time of the year. Of course I am primed to make art about the daily assault of grass on my eyes. The way it dies over the length of the tournament, it is heart-breaking, yet we must struggle on. In my work the grass never dies, it fights on, showing us the path and leading the way. Onward!”
Ptolemy is the only abstract artist I ever look at. Any other abstract artist is just a waste of eyeball energy.
Coca Nyula, art critic, dress designer and part-time magician
Instant film Street Photography
A bird lover in a small grassy area near the Thames on the Isle of Dogs. Very at home with the pigeons, so much so that she allowed one to land on her hand.
New episode of “An Award-winning Podcast” presented by Cecily Chopps
Episode 2
- 02:12 Cecily muses on a tube of 1956 Crimson Alizarin that she found in her great aunt’s* paint cupboard, and wonders where we would be without Sir William Henry Perkin.
- 12:32 Introduction of special guest Hannibal Southwell, discussion of his oeuvre, with remarkable revelations about how he first got started in the unusual medium of sculptural robotic taxidermy.
- 34:03 Play along with the new game Guess the Brush. Cecily paints with different brushes and you can win prizes by guessing correctly which one it is purely by the sound it makes on the canvas.
- 41:00 Interruption by Cecily’s young niece.
- 43:00 An unexpected singsong as Hannibal turns out to be releasing a song “When will I get in the Summer Exhibition”.
- 52:55 Goodbyes and Condolences.
*Cecily’s great aunt was the formidable Lady Ethelreda Axe-Cobb, renowned as the first woman to attempt to paint an African elephant in the wild. She half-succeeded, having got a preliminary sketch down before she was trampled.
Yellow dress/Black dog
“One of my favourite mediums is instant photography. I love the look and feel of the images, they are real objets d’art.”