A Brush with Words: Brief Parting
By Eric Seeley Oil 7″ x 5″
Continuing in our look back at the art and poetry exhibition, A Brush with Words, here is Brief parting by Eric Seeley and Tricia Torrington.
In Praise of Blue
(for A Brief Parting)
Because there was a blue heat
Sweating our bodies to a slow burn
Because there was a pure moon
Edging the sun to a swift end
Because there was a wide bay
gritting its teeth on our soft skin
Shadows enveloped us
So that we hid ourselves
Now the hills will never be too high again
And loose limbed beaches never
So stretched, tanned, warm again,
We had seven blue days
Because it was a week where we lost time
I will always lose time remembering…
Tricia Torrington
A Brush with Words: Icarus
Sally Scott, ‘Icarus’ Sandblasted and Engraved Flash Glass Disc
22″ diameter; slate base 7″ x 27″
Continuing in our look back at the art and poetry exhibition, A Brush with Words, here is Icarus, by Sally Scott and Tricia Torrington.
Tonight
(for Icarus)
Tonight I would give you a list of things
not to forget…
Keep land in mind, your feet
tipped to the magnetic -
I wish it was tonight we could become
extraordinary
for the sky is bright enough with all
its winking heroes
Orion, Perseus, the shield of Achilleus -
and the Wain,
keep that in mind, that group of stars
that turns always
on the same point, the only ones that never bathe
in the sea -
Tonight I would have you remember Homer’s
“weariless sun”,
It is love that attracts us like moths.
But how it burns.
Tricia Torrington
A Brush with Words: The Langdale
Annie Hudson ‘Langdale’ oil 5″ x 16″
In October 2005, the Border Poets, a group of poets in the Shropshire area led by Roger Garfitt, together with members of the Royal Academy Schools Alumni (RASA) collaborated to produce an exhibition of poetry and art. The exhibition A Brush with Words, curated by Michael Sangster, took place at Martin’s Gallery in Cheltenham during the literary festival. We will be displaying some of the images and poems on this page over the next few months.
To kick the series off, here is The Langdale by Amanda Attfield and Annie Hudson.
Dinosaur Eye (The Langdale) Amanda Attfield
You had the small box held up to your eyes,
I said What can you see? I wanted to be
lifted up so I could see, I wanted to see.
I wanted to see. I could hear it. Like breathing,
like when snow fell on dry leaves
in the woods at the back of our house,
where I wasn’t to go unless someone could
see me, or hear them call me, because
of that boy who went there and was
found crumpled up under a hedge.
The bridge had a V shape in it. You
could stand in and not get knocked by the traffic.
When I was older, I would make a rule
that all walls must have steps, and all bridges
must be of glass so I could see over, under,
through and down to where the breathing was.
She lifted me up. She gave me the small box
to look through. There was its one eye, and
the crag that was its head. A nose must be
somewhere for the breathing and feet, and
a tail, planted in the body of the hill
ready to burst out, and trample the bridge to pieces.
Ready for me to make it better, make it glass.
Barbara Wolff our 2008 Premium Prize Winner
The 2008 Premium prize winner was Barbara Wolff. Here is an excerpt from a conversation I had with her about her work. There will be more of this in the RASA newsletter which will come out shortly.
Gloria: How shall we start? May be I should say why I like your work… I liked your work because strangely enough, I don’t know if it means anything to you, they reminded me of Renaissance paintings like Titian or Veronese somebody like that, exotic and that was my main feeling; but they’re quite mystical aren’t they?
Barbara: Yes I think they are. They start off from quite a scientific point I think because I am very interested in the patterns of nature and how the microcosm has got similar patterns to the macrocosm like for example here we can see the star formations are in the carpet, and it’s got similar patterns to the coral formations on the top of it. Also on this piece (a hanging basket) I am working on branching systems; it’s based on Fibonacci and the Golden Section.
Gloria: Which is renaissance?
Barbara: Yes and I’m very fascinated by renaissance paintings especially; and I come from a painting background. I used to be a painter but it’s kind of transformed for me…
More images of Barbara’s work can be found in the gallery
Our new website!
Welcome to our new website. It’s not quite finished yet but we think it’s already looking good. Over the next month or two we’ll be putting lots of our members work on the site. It’s really exciting to see it all coming together and we hope you like it.
We’re using Flickr to provide our online picture gallery. Any work shown on our site can also be found on our Flickr page (www.flickr.com/photos/rasalumni/). We’re hoping this will draw a lot of attention from the people who visit Flickr every day.
We welcome those who are studying in the Royal Academy Schools at present (including ex graduates who left up to 18 months ago), so if you’d like us to include your work let us know ; you will find information on how to submit up to 3 images on the membership page.
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