Scouting for Art

Gary Goodman joins SfA for 2011

2011-02-14T12:53:00.000-08:00

Gary submitted some his paintings and they immediately took my attention, perhaps because I love art like this. It's full of character and playful. When I saw all the rest of his extensive range of paintings, etchings and prints I was really pleased he has joined SfA and I hope you enjoy them too.

'Shy girl' - Oil on panel - 100cm x 80cm

Check out his gallery page on: scoutingforart.com/gary_goodman.htm

'Suffering Through Conflict' by Clementine McGaw

2011-01-05T06:18:00.000-08:00

'Figure I' - Oil & gloss on canvas - 150cm x 120cm

Clementine McGaw’s debut solo exhibition highlights the impact and universal suffering caused by the atrocities of war. Clementine looks to present images of the suffering of all parties involved in the fall out of war, from those participating in a literal sense, to those affected on an emotional level, perhaps if they have family or friends involved in conflict. In light of this, the exhibition is proud to support the charity HELP for HEROES*, set up in 2007 to aid wounded soldiers and their families.

While her images are beautiful depictions in themselves, they cannot fail to have a huge impact on the onlooker. Describing her works, Saatchi & Saatchi’s Creative Director, Kate Stanners says: “The combination of the simplicity of her images with the intense complex emotion has great power.”

Indeed while her works invite empathy and understanding, they do not romanticise the subject matter. Clementine uses the medium of art as a vehicle to communicate and encapsulate the inner turmoil of human suffering on varying levels.


Prince Michael of Kent and Clementins's Father at the show

Her works pare down the subject of war to a human level where the suffering is individual, personal and unique to each person and she explores and symbolises this suffering in a unique and refreshingly frank, raw, yet humanistic way. The suffering is the excruciating pain caused by loss, in both the literal and more generic sense, from an individual’s suffering to society’s desensitisation to conflict and the overall impact on the societies that war affects. While the topic is current, it is not a modern day condition and the images evoke and often depict suffering through atrocity from past eras.

Describing her works Clementine says: “In the works selected for this, my first solo exhibition, I have explored the human condition and social impact of conflict on not just us as a society, but each of us as individuals.

Throughout history conflict has caused suffering on a range of levels and there is a sense of empathy within my works that take on board the result of our actions and determine where we go on a global level from here. The subject of war is an impassioned one and I try to look more deeply into the personal impact it can have, as well as the inner conflict within ourselves that we may feel about our actions. Suffering knows no boundaries and my works seek to not just encapsulate this, but to instigate empathy and understanding.

'Bare life I' - Oil & gloss on canvas - 150cm x 120cm

In the creation of my works I am affected by authentic images of Prisoners of War, Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, the Holocaust and the My Lai Massacre. I identify wholly with the human pain and suffering in these images and feel an overwhelming sense of responsibility and compassion in portraying them. It is these very real feelings that I try to encapsulate on canvas. I believe it is this genuine feeling in my works, that the onlooker connects with.”

Suffering Through Conflict

12th – 22nd January 2011

Invitation only preview evening: Wednesday 11th January, 6.30-9pm – please RSVP Charlie Wheatley at Scouting for Art.

Westminster Reference Library 35 St Martin's Street, London WC2H 7HP

£10,000 raised for breast cancer awareness

2010-10-20T04:51:00.000-07:00

Tahnee Lonsdale donated 'Loplop' painting to be auctioned at the breast cancer awareness event 'Everyone is Art', it raised £10,000 for charity!

'Loplop' - 48" x 72"

My livingroom featuring Anna Dudley Neill

2010-10-02T07:58:00.000-07:00

My livingroom is open to all as a gallery showing paintings from Anna Dudley Neill. The exhibition is part of the Wandsworth Artists' Open House running both weekends of 2-3 & 9-10 October 11am-6pm.

Clementine McGaw picks up 'Best Emerging Fine Artist' Award

2010-09-25T07:58:00.000-07:00

Clementine McGaw has won 'Best Emerging Fine Artist' at the e-Creative 2010 awards judged by Kate Stanners (Executive Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi).

Degree Shows 2010

2010-09-08T04:46:00.000-07:00

SfA has five new artists from scouting the degree shows of 2010. Clementine McGaw from St Martins, James Chen-Wishart from Goldsmiths and Christina Christova, Bruno Deroulede, Benjamin Bridges from Wimbledon.

Tomas Georgeson exhibiting at the WRF

2010-07-27T08:15:00.000-07:00

Tomas Georgeson will be exhibiting his new series of paintings influenced by the controversial Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch at the Westminster Reference Library as well as two paintings of his uncle, actor Tom Georgeson.

Tomas’s classic style oil paintings have a twist of modern elements, documenting performance and installation art and has frequently exhibited in London since graduation from Central St Martin's in 2006, most notably with 'Contemporary Art Projects' and recently shortlisted for the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize.

He was the Royal Society of British Artists Rome scholar in 2005 and continues to build his reputation as 'One of the most exciting emergent painters in Europe' - Nice Magazine, March 2009.

Freda Alschuder

2010-06-03T05:19:00.000-07:00

SfA has another new artist, Freda Alschuder from Switzerland. She completed her training in England with a diploma in dress design, hence her competence to render the figure. Her flair for design and pattern follow her throughout her artistic career. Her work has appeared in many solo and group exhibits and is in private collections in England, Switzerland, the United States and Canada. She has taught watercolour at the Ottawa School of Art for four years. She now resides in the French part of Switzerland where she continues her teaching and painting. Last year she was chosen to exhibit at the Saatchi gallery.
http://www.scoutingforart.com/freda_alschuler.htm

Tomas Georgeson shortlisted for John Moores prize

2010-05-12T07:02:00.000-07:00

Tomas Georgeson is shortlisted for the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize for his 'Pieta' painting.
The works are selected anonymously from an open submission by the jury and attracts a broad spectrum of artists across europe.
http://www.scoutingforart.com/tomas_georgeson.htm
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/jm2010/

Alice Wisden featured in Rooms Magazine blog

2010-05-02T10:52:00.000-07:00

I was contacted by Laura Naylor from Rooms Magazine about writing a feature on Alice Wisdens' paintings.
http://www.scoutingforart.com/alice_wisden.htm
http://roomsmagazine.blogspot.com/2010/04/alice-wisden.html#more

Paul-Emmett Costelloe at The Irish Club

2010-04-27T02:59:00.000-07:00

Paul-Emmett Costelloe is now exhibiting at The Irish Club in Blackfriars. The exhibition is in the Munster Room and is showing six of his oil landscape paintings. It is a members club but the exhibition is open to the public for one month.
http://www.scoutingforart.com/paul-emmett_costelloe.htm
http://www.irishclub.co.uk/

Laura Jacobs

2010-04-16T06:35:00.001-07:00

SfA has a new artist, Laura Jacobs from Great Western Studios. She works using mixed media, producing layers of gestural information. The end result is dream like story of past and present.
http://www.scoutingforart.com/laura_jacobs.htm