Contemporary Art Dealers Extraordinaire
Snapped by Johnny Peckham in the West End, showing the moment when a bird-phobic assistant took on the job of corralling a pigeon out of a café.
This photo sums up everything about life in central London. The pigeon is of course a metaphor for – well, I don’t need to spell it out, do I? Brilliant again by Peckham.
Suave Constanza, art critic for the Ealing Zoo & Fine Art Weekly
Black and white Chaps – “I took this photo on Saville Row where a classic car show was in full swing. It sums up the busy, stylish nature of the street.”
Bird Lady is an instant photograph from Johnny Peckham.
”I was walking the Thames path out in East London when I happened upon this lady surrounded by birds. I have never seen anyone so happily feeding pigeons. There’s a lot to learn from her attitude.”
6cm x 6cm image
Mounted and framed in 8” x 8” black frame
A corking image from Godwin Sands, doyen of expressionist photogrodraw. Looking out over the Thames from Barge Walk near Hampton Court on a sunnyish afternoon at the end of summer, is quite a mouthful of a title, but it expresses perfectly what is in the image. Oh those last days of summer! How sad they make us humans feel!
A good example of the well-known dictum suffering makes great art. Poor Ptolemy created this work as he sat, roasting, in a plane that had a problem with its engine. The mental anguish of flying in a machine that you have been told doesn’t work properly – how well he has captured that emotion in this piece. The colors zing and zang off each other, the central orange bespeaking the overwhelming question, viz, should I stand up and insist to be allowed off this plane. Mirrored by the lightest of greens, the universal symbol for Yes.
Brave Ptolemy stayed on the plane. The good news is they made it unscathed to Paris. That’s not as good as it sounds as they were supposed to be going to Casablanca, but out of the turmoil we have gained a modern masterpiece. Ptolemy we salute you, and – though you have sworn never to travel by plane again – we hope you make it back from Paris soon.
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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