No, this is not some kind of conflated and pretentious concept of this blog site being presented with a three pronged plug. Rather, we were given a thumbs up from http://www.metabunker.dk/. This blog site is run by Matthias Wivel and friends. I met Matthias last year. he was a supervisor on the History of Art degree I just finished. He is, I believe, doing a phd which looks into the link between Titians woodcuts and paintings. His site deals with a broad spectrum of visual and cultural issues. From attribution of Venetian masters to cutting edge 'cult' comics. I was quite worried about showing images of mine and Andy's paintings to people from the department, through fear that they would think my work in particular was kitche. Kindly Mathias made some very nice comments. On his site, below a nice big image of Danae1 he posted the following (saved on here for posterity as much as anything- plus its good to blow your own trumpet occasionaly.)
...Just wanted to plug the blog of one of last year’s students here at Cambridge, Tom de Freston and his friend Andrew Foulds. They are both painters and have now started a blog showcasing their work all the while providing a forum for their thoughts on art and such. There’s some good work there - Tom has an acute sense of saturated, rich colour that I dig. Above is reproduced a riff on Titian’s Danae. Check it out....
Many thanks Matthias. Now I must work out how to create a link to relevant sites such as this. ummm, buttons buttons everywhere.
Right, enough self congratulation. I am going to return to the Adonis painting. That is sure to drag me back into self deprecation and frustration. Currently quite jealous of Andy's efforts in 'The Dance.' Characterisation, 'narrative', surface, composition and colour really seem to be coming together. I still prefer 'Melancholy...' in principle, but it does not have the formal sophistication of 'The Dance.'
Plus- meeting another local artist next week who is just starting up again after completing (I believe) a phd which i tihnk considers the Theatrics of 17th Century painting (It could be wrong though) Could be interesting.
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