{"id":844,"date":"2026-05-01T14:27:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/canvas\/?p=844"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:09:09","slug":"terminus-all-change-closed-for-refurbishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/canvas\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"TERMINUS: ALL CHANGE. Closed for refurbishment."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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This week should have been the beginning of a super new art made in the studio by myself phase at 3rd Space on the widely advertised Open Studios weekend….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It isn’t instead it pretty much defined what I am and am not interested in going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My painting career probably ended a very long time ago around 1988 when I quit London when living in a squat and working in a studio space with no roof where the snow came in (true) just about finished me off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I was a full-time painter burning the midnight oil and living a pretty haphazard life. That was then this is now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am now 67 years old, retired and enjoying retirement and the impetus to splash out on 6 feet square canvasses and pretend I De Kooning again just isn’t there.

I proud of the paintings I did but never had the time (work) nor the finances to do it properly. So in the end I didn’t do it any more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My paintings have appeared on various album sleeves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This also coincided with a intense period of looking after my then alcoholic and ill wife who passed away in 2020. Symbolicly I painted over a large canvas associated with her and her sister and called it a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That hasn’t changed but my interests in other areas has developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recently had old photographs used in a record sleeve for a hometown band I know and also did the sleeve layout. Along with that I read song-lyrics\/poems at a launch gig in my hometown art centre. No drawings or paintings involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here they are holding the album sleeve on location I took the photograph used on front cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thames Valley Texas: poems and songs from Normal Town<\/a><\/blockquote>