Dialogue with Death Art Exhibition
art with a profound message about the acts of war
Each year on 11th November we pause to commemorate those who fell in war.
In March 2015, I was honoured to exhibit a selection of my War Series paintings at the Crypt Gallery in St Pancras, London.
The exhibition, titled Dialogue with Death, offered a powerful and thought-provoking setting for my work, and it remains one of the most memorable occasions of my artistic journey.
Here are some images from that exhibition.
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The Dialogue with Death art exhibition was organised by Adelinda Allegretti and she selected the ideal spot - the crypt of the oldest Church in London.
It was damp, gloomy in parts, a little cold and I swear haunted - the natural home for artwork on death.
There were sixteen artists contributing including a sculptor. The mix of paintings sculptures and tombs in that space created a perfect feel for the show
The Great War begins.
Unfolding inevitability towards the bloodiest battles in history.
Slaughter on an industrial scale brought on by the invention of the field and machine gun plus leaders with a mindset from earlier conflicts.
A Soldier's Journey
The painting here is called "A Soldier's Journey" describing abstractly the expectations of a soldier sent to France during The Great War.
His journey has mud, thick sickening mud before he is "released" to join his comrades under neatly kept gravestones.
Danger Tree - an everlasting reminder of horror
The painting "Danger Tree" behind the sculpture is about the last tree remaining on the Somme after the great battle - it was called "Danger Tree" for obvious reasons, it is still there.
And here are some of the other paintings that were at the dialogue with death art exhibition
The last one... The Somme 1918 - nobody really wanted to be there and now they have left by one means or another.
You can see the programme by clicking here
I hope you have enjoyed this post about the Dialogue with Death Art Exhibition which has now closed. I have produced other war art and made a series about polluting our planet. Click on them to take a look. You can also see all of my original abstract paintings all intended to capture... "that certain feeling"
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