There is a big event in Padiham on Saturday for the art world.

57 artists will be painting a part of the town of their choice from 8am til 6pm in a first for the town. You can watch the artists paint and the event has attracted some very good artists by all accounts.
Anyone interested can get a map of where all the artists will be from Art and Soul gallery.

There is a video from BBC Lancashire on FB about it if you're on there.

yes, thickneck art is all the rage about these parts don't you know ?

Wile E Coyote wrote:yes, thickneck art is all the rage about these parts don't you know ?

Stand up at it's very best.

What part are they painting?

ClaretAndJew wrote:What part are they painting?

Go to the art and soul gallery and look at the map.

What part are they painting?
Doors and window frames for starters!

57 murals of Sean Dyche.

Art and Soul gallery has now gone.
If your interested you will have to go to either Storm Art opposite the old White Horse, or the Picture House Gallery at the top of the hill.

I think Padiham is a great subject for art, because it's such a picturesque place, with great topography and a window on to civilization and not, as the case may be. I've drawn it in the past and if I still lived there, I'd do it again. I think it's a great idea. Good luck to all taking part. I once did a drawing at the top of Garden St. looking down over the town and a lady across the street spontaneously brought me a drink and a sandwich. How nice.

For the size of the place it is a very interesting town to look at.

Town and country visible, small in a big expanse. Old stone buildings, grime and modern technology and new builds. Fantastic subject.

Quickenthetempo wrote:Go to the art and soul gallery and look at the map.

Alright, soz.

ClaretAndJew wrote:Alright, soz.

I presumed you were trying to be funny like others on the thread. If not then sorry.

All 57 artists will have a different location of their choice, within a mile of the centre.

I believe two are up at the arbories sports ground and one at the fire station section of the calder, the map will give more info though.

... If only I'd made it to the Padiham Donkey Derby Children's Art Show. I presume the 57 artists are the ones that did.

I live in Padiham and I've not heard of it, so I was enquiring. Seems an interesting concept to happen around the town.

I think it is a brilliant idea and something different. We get angry when the BBC portray Easy Lancs as a glorified Burnley Wood so when we get an initiative like this we should support and publicise it in a positive light.

I will certainly be going round having a look at all the artists in action. A superb event.

I wonder if any of them are painting the new training ground? About 15 look to be in Gawthorpe grounds.

Walked round today and saw a lot of the paintings,very interesting and especially at places where more than one painter was painting the same scene for example the bridge behind the fire station seeing diffrent styles and interpretations of the same subject. Should be interesting to see the results when they are displayed. Wasn't over impressed with some of the paintings at Gawthorpe though as I like paintings to look similar to what they are painting however I can be educated on styles.

I was talking to a lady who was painting near the Victoria Apartments.

What I didn't ask was when & where are they going to be displayed and would they be available for sale.

There were quite a few near the church.

An artist who was painting the church from up the hill told me they would be displayed in a couple of weeks time for a month or so mainly in the art gallery just above the chippy on the main road. I have my eye on one painting in particular. I'll not mention it as if the art world know that I am after it the price will triple

A few 'over the shoulder' pics of artists at work and the scene they were painting from, would have been nice to see. I agree somewhat with bfcjg that style without reason can be a bit dull. Cezanne's usage of Mont St. Victoire might grate if I were from the locale. On the other hand if one creates a picture using what is in front of one as a motif, it can be interesting, IF it's to some purpose. I've done pictures based on Burnley that were not entirely truthful, but for pictorial reasons. Bonnard said that sometimes one has to lie to reveal a truth in art. Of course I don't believe him .

Pstotto

Your time will come. I think you once said maybe on here when it comes to art and getting it displayed in galleries " no name no frame" which unfortunately perpetuates the elitism of art ?

The current themes of art are race, gender, nationality and feminism. There's not much interest in my field of interest. These 'social' subjects of art have been put in, to make art an 'anybody anything' game, in order make art both political and a political backwater, by destroying the momentum of advancing of the visual in art, so that the power of the visual is solely in the hands of corporate media. The secondary reason is to keep art schools and museums happy with a never-ending subject because sociology-as-art can go on forever. The rise of the political curator is a further death knell for formalism because the judges of art can't actually see. They don't know what advanced art is, hence Lubaina Himid being nominated for the Turner Prize when she can't even draw and her painting talent is less than O level standard.

Cezanne's Mont St Victoire always reminds me of Pendle.

Me, too. Burnley's answer to Cezanne was the late David Wild. Not sure if he ever painted Pendle in that vain. I always feel ambivalent about pictures of Pendle that are inaccurate, because the form of it, is what makes it Pendle.

As a child, I used to watch the shadows of clouds moving over Pendle Hill from my parent's home in Brierfield. Some days the fog or clouds would engulf the hill and you would never know it was there.

Garry Stein painting of Padiham Cricket Club

Absolutely brilliant

Another fab painting. Artist is C E Taylor by the painting.