Watch out for Coral Churchill’s new exhibition at the Menier Gallery, London on 16-20 February 2010.

“The Trouble with Women” brings together an eclectic body of work from a small group of Fine Art graduates from Central St Martins. The show is a humorous, lively yet sometimes dark exploration of femininity in a postmodern post feminist world. It is an exploration of women’s interior worlds as well as the way they are perceived and represented today. The works examine notions of femininity as enduring as motherhood and sexuality but also the ever changing expectations of women.

Coral Churchill is interested in intuitive art and the role of the woman as creator. The subconscious and the symbolic are central concerns, while automatism is interwoven with observational work. Recent work reflects the social construct of femininity in a patriarchal society, looking at transformation and the shape shifter archetype.

To find out more about Coral Churchill’s work, including sneak previews of her prints, please contact info@bluerimgallery.net.

You might think that these two prints are crafted from the Edo period by a Japanese hand, but in fact, these are oil paintings on canvas executed by the Impressionist master, Van Gogh (1853-90). 

These prints are of course copies of Hiroshige’s Plum Garden at Kameido and Sudden Shower over Ohasi Bridge. 

Van Gogh was a true Japanophile. He was an avid collector of Japanese prints and later in life became a dealer of these prints. So enamoured was he of these prints, that he wrote to his brother in September 1888:

“I envy the Japanese for the enormous clarity that pervades their work. It is never dull and never seems to have been made in haste. Their work is as simple as breathing and they draw a figure with a few well chosen lines with the same ease, as effortless as buttoning up one’s waistcoat….”

He meticulously copied Keisai Eisen’s print The Courtesan:

He actually saw this print in a magazine, Paris Illustré, and was so taken with it that he copied and enlarged it by tracing it on a grid. But his colour palette is brighter with bolder lines, by comparison with the original print. He also added Japanese motifs around the border of his portrait; many details are taken from works by Yoshimaru and Torakiyo. Van Gogh adds a tongue-in-cheek detail with the frogs in the border. In 19th Century France, prostitutes were referred to as grues or grenouilles (frogs).

‘A Nomad’s Tale,’ the Blue Rim Gallery’s collaboration with the Museum of East Asian Art and Sebastien Munoz ends in April…

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