by Richard Greatrex | Dec 14, 2024 | Image Essays
Enrique Brinkman c. 1982 BLOG # 17 I used to have a problem with abstract paintings. I didn’t know how to read them. My vision, my thought processes and mindset had been determined by stories. Stories that help us all to get to grips with experience, help to...
by Richard Greatrex | Dec 1, 2024 | Image Essays
BLOG # 16 Here is a photograph I came across by chance. It intrigues me, so ordinary, yet so careful. I looked and looked again, a moment caught by a lifetime of photography. You can almost see the twinkle in the subjects eyes, or so it seems. His enthusiasm in...
by Richard Greatrex | Nov 11, 2024 | Image Essays
BLOG # 15 25th of February 2023 Principality Stadium Cardiff, Wales. Six Nations Rugby, the grudge match, Wales versus England. An absolutely intense rivalry, the Dragon and the Rose. 1881, the two nations faced each other in the first rugby international. The score 0...
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....
