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| Lady_Anna_Bradford |
A few months ago I watched a programme on TV about a fantastic British still-life artist. His paintings are incredible because his skills with creating light and shadow meant his pictures had a very 3D quality. A knife on table next to an apple would pop out at you. He said his greatest compliment was from a five year old boy who asked "But how did the knife get in the picture?"
As far as I remember he includes, and is particularly known for, a lot of stainless steel and other reflective surfaces in his paintings. Even through the medium of a non-HD telly his talent was astonishing.
He is a contemporary artist so yes, he's still alive, and he was described as the leading British still life artist.
But can I find him on the net! I've googled on and off for weeks and I can't get any closer to finding him. His first name is something like Graham or David but his surname is not a typical surname, it's a verb or a pronoun.
Oh, and one of his paintings is called 'Granny and the McIntoshes'. It is a painting of a granny smith apple next to two Mcintosh apples. I can't find that on Google either.
Does anyone have any idea who I am talking about? Pleeeeeese. I'd love to try and purchase some prints.
| 11 Dec 09, 12:58 PM SemiTrainedApe UK, 4 yrs |
Is it Darren Baker? | ||
| 11 Dec 09, 1:26 PM Lady_Anna_Bradford UK(BD), 5 yrs   |
Nah, he is figurative, and far too young. My guy is in his 50s I think and only does still life. "If no sexual offence is being committed it seems very odd indeed that there should be an offence for having an image of something which was not an offence," Lord Wallace of Tankerness http://www.clips4sale.com/studio/26308 http://ladyannadominatrix.c4slive.com/ http://www.professionaldomination.co.uk | ||
| 11 Dec 09, 1:35 PM SemiTrainedApe UK, 4 yrs |
Oh. Is it Darren Baker's Dad?
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| 11 Dec 09, 2:00 PM Lady_Anna_Bradford UK(BD), 5 yrs |
Get back in your tree monkey-boy
"If no sexual offence is being committed it seems very odd indeed that there should be an offence for having an image of something which was not an offence," Lord Wallace of Tankerness http://www.clips4sale.com/studio/26308 http://ladyannadominatrix.c4slive.com/ http://www.professionaldomination.co.uk | ||
| 11 Dec 09, 2:08 PM SemiTrainedApe UK, 4 yrs |
To be honest, I knew my 2nd guess was a long shot.
Hope you find him. | ||
| 16 Dec 09, 10:52 AM LipstickTraces UK(N), 2 yrs  |
What was the programme called? Or do you know which channle it was on, etc? | ||
| 17 Dec 09, 9:44 AM Lady_Anna_Bradford UK(BD), 5 yrs |
Haven't a clue. I can't remember I can't even remember if it was daytime or evening TV. I think it was Daytime.
"If no sexual offence is being committed it seems very odd indeed that there should be an offence for having an image of something which was not an offence," Lord Wallace of Tankerness http://www.clips4sale.com/studio/26308 http://ladyannadominatrix.c4slive.com/ http://www.professionaldomination.co.uk | ||
| 27 Dec 09, 1:03 PM x_Thunder_x UK(E), 9 yrs      |
subodh gupta? http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/artpage... ^Thunder^ | ||
| 30 Dec 09, 7:05 PM Lady_Anna_Bradford UK(BD), 5 yrs |
Nope, he is white with a very English name, something like Graham Leaf (but it isn't this obviously) "If no sexual offence is being committed it seems very odd indeed that there should be an offence for having an image of something which was not an offence," Lord Wallace of Tankerness | ||
| 30 Dec 09, 11:24 PM Corwin UK(L), 10 yrs |
My first thought was Dan Hays who has done some very striking 3d style hamster cage artwork that I remember seeing at Tate Liverpool or it could have been the Lady Lever art gallery. DELUSIONS - There is no greater joy than soaring high on the wings of your dreams, except maybe the joy of watching a dreamer who has nowhere to land but in the ocean of reality |
