by Richard Greatrex | Oct 14, 2024 | Image Essays
Hello All There will be a short pause for awhile. We are moving house from Hay on Wye to Sherston in North Wiltshire where Jess, our daughter, lives with her family. I am especially sad to leave Hay on Wye and all that goes on here and especially all my friends. But...
by Richard Greatrex | Sep 17, 2024 | Image Essays
You don’t know like I know.John Stratton 2013 Oil & Acrylic Blog # 14 A painting bearing memories, but a safety warning. My memory can slip and slide. I cannot attest to all of the following recollections. Some I feel confident about, others are vague,...
by Richard Greatrex | Sep 3, 2024 | Image Essays
Walk with Soames Saul Leiter 1958 Blog # 13 Look carefull, pause a while. A painting? A photograph? Maybe a screen-print?It’s hard to know what exactly we are looking at. It has poise, elegance, and a coherent colour scheme. It has lights that demand attention....
by Richard Greatrex | Aug 12, 2024 | Image Essays
Blog # 12 I see this painting and I see only an enigma.I’m rather partial to the word enigma. I also am attracted to segway, moribund, caveat, perfidious and vertiginous. These words are so full of themselves. They rush forward with their meanings, trying to...
by Richard Greatrex | Jul 31, 2024 | Image Essays
BLOG # 11 A photograph. . . Ivor Stravinsky, composer of the Rites of Spring, discordant to some, for others the wonderful beginning of modern music. The Rites of Spring was created in 1913, a period when so many of the arts were blooming into the Modern before being...
