The now and again Five Pieces of Art thing feature again. Well why not (again)? Again and again (and again and again), all this art flowing past on various feeds or wrapped up in press releases or jumping off actual gallery walls or wrapping chips or passing on the side of those Whitechapel white vans. So we ask (again) why not five pieces of art every couple of weeks or so alongside everything else that appears on these fractured pages on a daily basis? Can you think of one good reason why not to? Well besides the time involved and the this and the that and the dancing around and the skins on the tins of paint and the man at the door…

Five pieces of art then, a semi regular feature, just five pieces of art that have passed our way in the last few days, nothing more (or less) than that. Nothing really to do with an upcoming show or anything else (although maybe they are), just a simple, semi regular five pieces of art feature. Let’s do it again.

1: Vesna Parchet or Ves as we know her, is a London-based artist, she been taking part in both online and physical Cultivate shows for something like seven years now. Do like her prolific energy, I love the photos of her studio and the glorious expanse of mess that allows her to birth her often very big paintings. Vesna is as equally at home working on the street, painting walls as she is in her studio. I like her marks, her figures, the freedom in the way she works, I like the drive, the bite, the power and commitment in her work, she isn’t an artist who needs to be wrapped in lots of words, her exiting work does more than enough talking… More here

2: Tom Blackford – “Painted a pharmacy shutter today in Finsbury Park” said Tom, they look like Dolly Mixtures, hope no one is tempted to grab a handful. it does look rather cool. Come on, Tom’s street work always comes with a hint of fun or at least a smile…

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3: Nat has what? And it is good to see that, in the face of all that Nat has been dealing with over the last few years, that Nat has NFTs. This fact was brought to our attention a couple of days back via a rather informative East London railway bridge.

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There is of course a leaf hanging in that photos of Nat’s bridge. The fifth of fourty-three leaves that will eventually make up the month-long April #43Leaves piece. The leaving of leaves is a nonstop operation, it has been going on for years now, most of this month’s leaves so far have found there way on to East London walls. Meanwhile, Stephen Buckeridge has a painting hanging in an East London gallery right now…

4: Stephen Buckeridge – a painting spied in a group show this week, a piece called Hush Hush Silent Green (charcoal and pigment on paper mounted on panel, 114 x 83cm) – A standout piece spied on the wall at the current slightly hit and miss group show This Year’s Model ’23 (part 3) at Studio 1.1 Gallery, Redchurch Street, East London. yeah, I know it says up there that this page isn’t really about shows as such but hey, what’s a rule if we can’t break it? Do like that Studio 1.1 is still hanging on as a functioning gallery on the once art-rich and now depressingly gentrified Redchurch Street, do try to drop in and regularly check out the shows there (quite a few have been covered in a mostly positive way on these pages over the years), the exhibitions there recently, including the current This Year’s Model have been a little up or down and we do have a policy of not covering things if we’re not feeling that positive about them. Did catch up with Part Three last weekend, did rather like this Stephen Buckeridge piece, it did rather stand out in what is a rather busy if rather erratic show. Do like Stephen’s use of paint, the movement, the bold confidence in the marks made, his use of colour….

Here’s two more peices. Find out more via Stephen’s Instagram feed which in turn will lead you to whatever he’s doing next…

5: Fergus Hare – do find it hard to resist a Fergus Hare painting, it might be a landscape, it might be his people, his crowds, his light, or in the case once more, one of his mountains. This one is called Mountains #22 (acrylic on paper, 19x26cm). Fergus has also figured on these pages on a number of occasions as well as in a number of our Cultivate online shows. This is a painting that deserves to have some white space around it…

.Previously on these pages –

ORGAN THING: The beauty of twilight horizon, Fergus Hare’s new work at New Art Projects, Freya Douglas-Morris at Lychee One…

ORGAN THING: Zachari Logan, Fergus Hare and Fredrik Andersson at New Art Projects, Hackney – glorious paintings, trophies that are far more than just playful, do catch it all if the lockdown lets you…

And while we’re here, Mixtape No.5, the final Mixtape exhibition and the final show in terms of Cultivate’s rather busy Spring Season of on-line shows, is on the way. The exhibitions, all hosted here on the Organ website, can be explored via this page. The next show, opening on Tuesday April 18th , will be a solo show from Mark Burrell. Explore Mixtape No.4 here

Another piece of Fergus Hare…