{"id":274,"date":"2014-05-06T20:08:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T20:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/canvas\/?p=274"},"modified":"2016-06-07T16:10:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T16:10:21","slug":"i-am-the-future-of-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/canvas\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"I am the future of painting….in Lady Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Silly blog post title of month. it amused me to write that especially as I just wrote that the future of painting is behind us…a smidgen of irony here.<\/p>\n

At 55 years old and with a back catalogue of failed projects, dumb moves and shit jobs behind me (before I shipwrecked on to Academia Island) I have decided to once more ride into the valley of death armed with nothing more than a paintbrush and some blank canvases. Why? Why not everything else is shot to bits so might as well tilt at the greatest windmill of all….the painter of modern life.<\/p>\n

I spent the day clearing out the cobwebs in my too often deserted studio and discovering that I had actually painted a\u00a0few canvases in the past few years. Not many because I remain unconvinced that it an honourable occupation or even a perfectable art..see below. If I am like Will Self trapped in a Guston led Gutenbergian brain then so be it. I think paintings matter. I think they can change the world and that’s it really. Sod the consequences….life too short.<\/p>\n

So here the sweepings from the last few years soon to be revealed at Lady Bay in my old schoolfriend Stephe’s front room. Not quite the Tate but you got to start somewhere:-)<\/p>\n

p.s. \u00a0not the big ones they aren’t finished…<\/p>\n

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  Silly blog post title of month. it amused me to write that especially as I just wrote that the future of painting is behind us…a smidgen of irony here. 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