There comes a point when in preparation for an exhibition that the time remaining changes from Months Away to a conscious change into Weeks Away, that time has now come and decisions have to be made toward the actual content of the Exhibition.
That time is now, with the decision of what to start working on now made it is time to start preparing the canvases and exhibits.
The show on this occasion is about the old town and the slow but sure take over of modernity, while the tourist related committees and groups, such as the Town Council and Civic Society struggle to promote the town as of being of historic interest, new hoardings asking those who visit to 'explore Kendal', Hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on renovation and rebuilding of the towns infrastructure such as pavements, lighting and seating in historic mode, there are those who work equally hard to bring Kendal into the 21st Century with modernity, shop signage of advertising and marketing.
The work that I will be producing for the show will allign the two , the amalgamation of the old with the new, each piece a snapshot of an entire shop front in colour .
Visitors to this historically advertised Town sadly will not be met with an old town but with a high street that is not that different from the High Street that they have escaped from, to find the Olde Grey Town as it is affectionally known they must look above the hoardings and advertising for there they will find the original (on manny occasions) woodwork, carvings and designs, chimneys and tiles, gutterings and paintwork, here is the towns history though seldom seem by many.
16 weeks to go
The work will be on 3/4 inch plywood pieces, each cut individually at a size that has, in itself, been a bit of a journey with many macquettes cut and painted to find the size that fits the purpose, each mounted with a canvas support, primed with gesso and then divided into fields of colour.
