Tue, Dec. 6, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Village Hall
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An evening with Doug Paterson, our village artist.
Non-members are always welcome.
For further information please contact Anthony Scully (Chairperson, Tostock Past & Present Society)
Tel: (01359) 270482
Email: a.r.scully@btinternet.com
DOUG PATTERSON
EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS TO SUFFOLK LANDSCAPES AND OTHER JOURNEYS
Venue Tostock VH Tuesday 6th December 7pm - Please bring a plate of food to share and your own drink and glasses. No entry fee (donations bucket)
I have travelled extensively in the tradition of a travelling artist always believing that the process of painting and drawing gives one an intimate insight into a place, and unique access to people.
In 2019 I started researching the artist David Roberts (1796 -1864) whose work I had admired since I was an art student. Roberts had travelled extensively throughout the Holy Land, the Sinai Peninsula, Petra and Egypt. It was Egypt that interested me most. So in October 2019, I made an exploratory trip to Egypt to investigate the feasibility of my project to follow Roberts journey south from Cairo to the Sudan.
However, due to Covid my project was cancelled. Instead I undertook numerous cycle / motor cycle rides through the Suffolk countryside and became totally immersed in the landscape and discovered the work of the Suffolk Artist Harry Becker (1865-1928). He was an iconic artist shunning society and illustrated the hard times for those working on the land in Suffolk. His work inspired me to embark on a series of charcoal landscape paper scrolls 2 metres x 75 cms. My first location was Drinkstone Lake, and the project progressed into illustrating the landscapes of twelve country house estates.
My talk will be illustrated with sketches and drawing from my initial Egyptian visit, which are drawn in graphite, watercolour and charcoal and my Suffolk landscape scrolls using the same materials.
The work I hope reveals energy of the moment, real life is so overwhelming in its complexity that it’s not always possible to convey everything one sees and feels. The sketches are a translation and distillation of experiences.
