Owl showing time
I’ve already mentioned Neil Jennings’s Barbara Jones show which starts today in Hampstead. Apparently for the last week his house has been filled with Barbara Jones artworks like this. And this. I don’t know how he copes.
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Postal Art
There is more to life than auctions. as proved by what Mr Crownfolio found on his internet wanderings recently. GPO Art What that link takes you to is a short Pathe film about, amazingly, the poster art of the GPO, dating from 1959. Which means that you get treated to things like this Ruskin Spear. This […]
Looking a gift book in the mouth
A short Barbara Jones announcement for all of you who, like me, think that she deserves more recognition. At last it seems to be happening. Not only is the Black Eyes and Lemonade exhibition running at the Whitechapel until September, but now Jennings Fine Art are holding a selling exhibition of her work at the […]
Special
I can resist anything except temptation. So this is the Barbara Jones picture which comes up on the BBC Your Paintings site. I wish it were my painting. But in fact it belongs to Exhall Grange Community College and Special School in the Midlands. I could quite easily go off on an entire digression about […]
Diverted
The peculiar thing about writing on Quad Royal, or to be more precise, the delving about in pursuit of a subject that I do in advance of writing, is that I quite often find myself in a place I didn’t expect to be. Take today, for example. This was going to be a quick, simple, […]
Popular, again
We’ve been beaten to it! For a while now, me and Serge and Tweed have been thinking that what the world needs is a complete re-staging of Barbara Jones‘ Black Eyes and Lemonade Exhibition, which was held at the Whitechapel Gallery as part of the Festival of Britain celebrations in 1951. I’ve written about the […]