Rediscovering: Graham Sutherland

I was first introduced to Graham Sutherland when I was in college and I really loved him then, but I recently watched a program on him and I found out that he used to pick up random things off the street, beaches or in woods and bring them home with him to draw, and anyone who knows me well knows that I have bags of things I have found around places, from broken bits from mugs to strangely shaped stones... This does explain the attention to detail that he has and I like to have when drawing or painting...

[An East End Street] I really like all of his war pieces... With this one especially, I love how the fronts of the houses look so real and the part of a brick wall showing looks almost crude and like it has been done by a child... Is that nasty to say?

[Road at Porthclais with Setting Sun] I just put this image up as it was in the program I watched... But to be honest I'm not a massive fan of this one or the other ones like it, I'm not going to lie... I wonder where Porthclais is? Shows how much I was listening doesn't it?



[Mountain] I think the reason Graham Sutherlan really appealed to me in the first place is the fact that he uses all kind of media to create his art... And as a lot of his work is based on Welsh landscapes, it reminds me of the Manx countryside...


[Thorn Structure] I have always liked this piece and I think it's because in some ways it reminds me of the intricate designs by Archibald Knox...