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ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýA selection of entries to the Picture Competition
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Boat by Anne Brierley
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"I always listen to Radio 4 while I'm painting - I discovered Radio 4 around the same time as I began renting a studio Ìýspace and so the two things quickly became interlinked- I'd come into the (invariably cold) studio, put the radio on make a cup of tea and start painting. Initially, the Shipping Forecast was a particular favourite - it has alwas been a faithful companion - and the curious thing is - I'm not sure if other people have this experience but, there is a wierd connection - correlation between the visual image that emerges, and the spoken word I'm hearing - allow me to Ìýexplain, if I am listening - say for example to a radio play - while painting a particular section - that play becomes - embedded into that section, it's a bit like recording sound by fixing it to image by the process of physically making marks on the canvas. If I then go back to that section of the painting at a later date to rework it, (and it can be months later) then parts of that play will return to me - quite forcibly - I can replay voices in my head. It also works the other way around. If I hear something repeated Ìýthen - woosh - I'm back to a particular painting, unbidden. I have a drawing done in about 1992 that will forever Ìýremind me that, on that particular day, Shulah was having trouble with the photocopier and I can hear Charlotte Green announcing it. It's an interesting phenomenon, I
wonder if other visual artists are similarly afflicted?"
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