Saturday, 8 October 2011

Mexican Miracle Paintings

Welcome Collection exhibition on Mexican Miracle Paintings.

A fascinating display of mexican paintings, all inspired by the saints that saved mexican's life, either through illness, jail, or being close to death.

The paintings were so popular with the citezens they were painted on cheap tin so anybody could get a chance to share their gratitude with the saints.

The images themselves are very detailed in telling the story yet are quite simple, there is only one bed and a door if it was in a bedroom, no miscellaneous items, which I believe makes it feel familiar to anyone looking at the painting.
The figures have a great look to them as you can feel the looseness of the painting and that perspective was not a issue its the message through the story they wanted to show first.

Renegade Craft Fair

Brick Lane Renegade craft fair.

Lucy Panes, illustrator

I found Lucy Panes work first when I arrived at the craft fair, beautiful fine pencil drawings and collages, I thought her drawings have a strong sense of another world, with her delicate methods of showing these new worlds i find most intriguing.
Using very subtle colours to add to the pencil marks I feel gives us a step into the 'other world'.