Today’s Slice Of Art, we did say we would do this, maybe not every single day, more often than not though, there can never be too much art on these pages, here comes another one…
A simple feature, just an almost daily slice of the art posted. Some days it might be a piece of art from someone we’ve been regularly covering on these pages (and maybe working with in terms of Cultivate), other days it might be something by an (almost) household name, on other days it might be a piece of art by someone who work we hadn’t known until the day we posted it, Today we feature a piece by Welsh artist Pete Monaghan…
Now this isn’t Pete’s usual territory, well as far as we know. I know Pete Monaghan as a painter of Welsh landscapes, of buildings you might not look at; “Most of my work is concerned with vernacular architecture, especially of the “Celtic fringes” of Wales, Ireland and Scotland but also the higher slopes of the Alps…” His work is instantly recognisable, be it a delicious still life like this or a farm building, something to do with the weight of his marks, his textures, the energy invested in the making of his paintings.
I have no idea how big or small this still life piece is but I do love that pink teapot I do believe you can current see the painting at a gallery in the north west of England called The Lake Gallery where Pete Monaghan is part of a group show…
Pete Monaghan works from a studio in Aberystwyth, west Wales. Working mainly in acrylic, ink, crayon and collage. he feels like an artist who would be based in Aberystwith…
“Neglected and dilapidated places fascinate Pete Monaghan. He has returned to them over and over again until they have become firmly established as the subject matter of his paintings. What is it that draws some of us to the tumbledown, to the make-do, to ramshackle farms and rusting echoes of abandoned barns? These are tatty, unaesthetic places. Many people turn their gaze away from them but, for those with eyes to see them, their forms are beautiful and their stories are compelling. Every detail reflects some labour, the solution to some problem: each boulder in the dry-stone walls was once lifted into place by hand, each patch made in corrugated-iron roofs is the ghost of someone’s ladder-reach. These places all were once the centre of someone’s life.” (Dr. Peter Wakelin 2016)
Previously on these pages…
ORGAN THING: The dignity of humble buildings, artist Pete Monaghan at Ffin y Parc Gallery
ORGAN: Cultivate presents (And with good) Reason, an on-line art exhibition…
Previous slices of art…
ORGAN: Today’s Slice Of Art (Part 5) – Jennifer Pochinski’s suggestions made…
ORGAN: Today’s Slice Of Art (Part 4) – Sabine Tress and her pink ghost…
ORGAN: Today’s Slice Of Art (Part 3) – Hilda Kortei’s painterly intuition…
ORGAN: Today’s Slice Of Art (Part 2) – Hetty Douglas is unmanageable…
ORGAN: Today’s Slice Of Art (Part 1) – Madeleine Strindberg’s Departure…
THE ORGAN 