MEMORY & DESIRE | PART I : 25TH - 30TH APRIL 2013

BARTHOLOMEW BEAL | NICHOLAS JOHNSON | MAX NAYLOR | ISHAI RIMMER | ELEANOR WATSON

April is the cruellest month, breeding 
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing 
Memory and desire

T.S. Eliot – The Wasteland

Painting and Poetry

Both poet and painter depict subjects

As they record them to be - MEMORY
As they would wish them to be - DESIRE

But primarily it is a combination of the two. Neither art form can be wholly objective in its representation. This is the essence of Memory & Desire: the mind’s eye and the heart.

Poetry and painting are alike in that they appeal primarily to a specific sense. Furthermore, mastering devices specific to their craft; for the poet pace, sound and meaning; the painter, form, definition and stroke, they aim to direct and influence our reaction.

The Violet Hour, April 2013