Daphne Todd At Messums

Daphne Todd, 1 of the Judges of The Big Painting Challenge, is currently having a solo exhibition at Messum's at 28 Cork Street inwards London. In this postal service I highlight the compass of the demo together with around of the paintings I love!

Solo exhibition of fossil oil paintings on birch panels

©  Daphne Todd

I missed the PV due to South London rush hr traffic equally I tried to acquire dorsum later the Ravillious preview (of which to a greater extent than tomorrow). Instead I had the delightful experience of a gallery almost all to myself early on the next day.

At the halt are 2 links to previous posts devoted to Daphne inwards which I highlight the way she works for those who similar this side of things. Suffice it to state she works solely from life. There's a fascinating extract from a conversation betwixt Martin Gayford together with Daphne Todd inwards the catalogue (which has rattling expert character reproductions) inwards which she says

..."in club to grab what you lot receive got seen... a photograph won't necessarily do..what you lot are doing is catching around aspect of what you lot are looking at, 1 that agency something to you, or has struck you lot inwards around way or has moved you. Therefore the tape you lot make, alongside the through a photograph or otherwise, is a construct. Now if it satsfies you lot to go through the procedure of taking together with printing a photograph, that's fine. But the photograph volition tape all sorts of things that you lot haven't seen. And it volition tape a lot of them inwards ways you lot didn't perceive them

If you lot are making things from observation, at that topographic point is a slight accident abput what gets downward on sail or board - or doesn't acquire down. But it's a much to a greater extent than witting serial of choices. You are going for this spell of color together with maxim something near how it relates to around other spell of colour"

Things I liked near the exhibition:

• Daphne's role of color - it's both naturalistic together with quite different anything else you lot volition receive got seen - it's rattling much a signature style. I'd dear to run into her pigment simply to go out which colours are involved inwards the mixes
• the gain of shapes together with sizes - it made for a to a greater extent than interesting exhibition. I notice I acquire bored when everything looks fairly regimented on the wall. She picks together with chooses her format for her bailiwick - together with therefore sometimes changes her require heed together with tacks on around other board!
• her paintings of plants together with flowers are memorable - both accurate together with painterly at the same fourth dimension - summation she looks for the colours inwards the calorie-free rather than simply the natural color which makes them experience far to a greater extent than real

Left) Christmas Roses inwards a newspaper bag

(right) Celebration Bouquet
fossil oil on birch panels | ©  Daphne Todd

• I especially loved the nonetheless life paradigm titled Blue Sky Reflection inwards a White Still Life. It seemed to me to go rattling much a painter's painting. It's a challenge to herself to notice all the reflected colours inwards an organization of white objects. The website version is likely improve than this one!

Blue Sky Reflection inwards a White Still Life

oil on birch panel |© Daphne Todd

• The Gallery has a existent feeling of the Kent/Sussex borders where she lives - together with which is countryside I know good (we similar visiting the gardens inwards that expanse of the world). I've e'er maintained that Daphne's paintings of landscapes are around of the best things she does

(left) Ash trees inwards high summertime (right) a selection of nonetheless life
together with 1 of my favourite paintings Up against a brick wall
fossil oil on birch panels |© Daphne Todd

Up against a brick wall

oil on birch panel | ©  Daphne Todd

• She also does around actually odd paintings. This 1 I especially emphasised alongside having spent a rattling relaxing sun afternoon inwards Provence drawing a wall. It's amazing how much at that topographic point is to state near a wall.....
• I dear her landscapes - she does something alongside the trees together with the calorie-free which is both fantastic together with real. However I receive got to state I don't holler upwardly my photos inwards whatever way exercise them justice! I was finding the lighting inwards the gallery to go a existent challenge for photography because of the spots - equally you lot tin run into below inwards you lot compare this to the website version. It's sure worth studying how she paints whether you lot tin acquire to the gallery to run into the demo or simply thought it via the 3 page virtual exhibition on Messums website

(left) Sky Trails, evening

(right) Hayfields, evening

oil on birch panels | ©  Daphne Todd

• Daphne is likely best known equally a painter of people - together with is a Past president of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.

Figurative paintings
fossil oil on birch panels | ©  Daphne Todd

For those who desire to go to a greater extent than confident alongside colour, who desire to go realistic but inwards a painterly way or simply desire to expect at the paintings of the adult woman who has spent the final vi weeks judging other people's paintings I highly recommend a see to Messums and/a report of the website together with her website. You'll larn a lot!

The exhibition continues until 17 April.

Links to other posts

• Daphne Todd Exhibition at the Mall Galleries - includes details of her approach to paradigm from an interview alongside her
• Daphne Todd wins BP Portrait Award 2010 - includes an interview alongside Daphne Todd

Other exhibitions inwards Cork Street

Wilfrid de Glehn

Wilfrid together with Jane de Glehn 

Messum's is also asset an exhibition of paintings yesteryear Wilfrid de Glehn together with his married adult woman Jane.

These are the artists inwards the rattling famous paradigm yesteryear John Singer Sargent - inwards the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago together with currently on display at the National Portrait Gallery - together with on the encompass of the catalogue!

Soon later marrying inwards 1904, they met John Singer Sargent inwards Venice, the commencement of many annual paradigm trips they took together. After his buy the farm inwards 1925, the de Glehns continued to travel, paradigm a the world together with a way of life, immediately largely gone.

It's a rattling expert complement for anybody viewing the Singer Sargent exhibition together with Cork Street is non far from the NPG - you lot tin easily walk betwixt the 2 galleries.

Do receive got a expect at the paintings.

Paintings yesteryear Wilfrid de Glehn

James Lloyd at Browse together with Darby

There are only 2 people who receive got ever won the BP Portrait Award together with the Ondaatje Prize (the major prize awarded each twelvemonth yesteryear the Royal Society of Portrait Painters). Daphne Todd is 1 together with James Lloyd wins The Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture. Plus Daphne Todd's portrait of Sir Cristopher Ondaatje hangs inwards the National Portrait Gallery). 

There's an chemical constituent of congruence that they should both go exhibiting inwards Cork Street at the same time!

James is also a figurative creative mortal who is realistic but essentially painterly equally well.  Plus I used to exercise his degree on 'Drawing the Head" at the Royal Drawing School earlier my tensynovitis got the improve of me.

I e'er similar seeing his experiments inwards finding different ways to exercise a self-portrait.  You tin run into example of this at his current solo exhibition at Browse together with Darby  at nineteen Cork Street (until xvi April)

James Lloyd - solo demo at Browse together with Darby

For Cork Street regulars this is the electrical flow thought of what lies betwixt Messums together with Browse together with Darby!!

The Cork Street 'Makeover'

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