Monday, 23 May 2011

Q & A

Paul Denham

A new feature on the news page is a monthly questions and answers with our artists to find out a little bit more about them. To kick start it off we have 5 answers from Paul Denham.

Which artists do you most admire?
Casper David Friedrich- for his luminous skies and expansive landscapes.
John Constable- beautiful painter and in my opinion just as ground breaking as Turner.
Zao Wo Ki- for his abstract markings and fusion of texture and smooth fields of colour.

What is your favourite time of year?
The warm spring days which follow a harsh long winter.

Growing up, what was your favourite children's television programme?
Button Moon.

What was the last book you read?
Red Sky at Night by Jane Struthers. A book about lost countryside wisdom.

What is your favourite poem?
Speak of the North! A lonely moor
Silent and dark and tractless swells,
The waves of some wild streamlet pour
Hurriedly through its ferny dells.
Profoundly still the twilight air,
Lifeless the landscape; so we deem
Till like a phantom gliding near
A stag bends down to drink the stream.
And far away a mountain zone,
A cold, white waste of snow-drifts lies,
And one star, large and soft and lone,
Silently lights the unclouded skies.
Speak of the North by Charlotte Bronte

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