Saturday 1 December 2012

JOHN VIRTUE. LONDON PAINTINGS

An extraordinary documentary on John Virtue making his London paintings. The intensity of his focus from subjec to sketchbooks to canvas, the layering and re-working, the constant editing are analogous to film making. He demonstrates several techniques to allow you to re-see freshly your work. He talks about the fear of starting a painting and his tactics to render tame the fear.