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you may not have heard of Jack Coulthard, he's a British artist of
consummate talent who spent the last 50 years
creating and perfecting his unique an extensive collection
paintings Jack is a storyteller
making a conscious narrative statement in each his paintings
however, his work cannot be defined or labelled in terms of contemporary art movements,
he sits outside of these, rather, he is defined by what he is not.
Jack
is not a pre raphaelite although his paintings are deeply researched
and have a meaningful narrative as in English pre-Raphaelite artwork.
jack is not a surrealist
although Andre Breton's Surrealist manifesto of 1924
deeply influenced his philosophical political
an imaginative sensibility Jack is not a postmodernist
in his words, "his work is not a spiteful reaction
to the detritus of postmodernism, is not a re-appropriation,
but his paintings are returned to find
what it's going to be new he is the creator
of worlds and possibilities.
when I was at grammar school I was gonna go into the colonial serbs
I wanted to be a district office in the
Kenya almost home you know but
everything shifted the other way more drawing
a less reading I can only go by
yeah by The Times Co when he was 15
getting ready for School Certificate
whatever it was then I had to make a choice
about the subjects I would take and
although I wanted to take history the option was
are or history I so enjoyed
aren't anyway and I was kinda good I was always good at it
you know the other school deal
a and so I may do so
choice that but I didn't say because
I'm gonna be an artist that I've must have already paid
has two made a choice a kind of choice because I would know
would've known that within a year I would have to apply
for Leeds because I don't know there's just something about you know
Shinde everything misconduct are now for
its very funny and very nice no
mmm a day said said go to Leeds don't
probably going to leave because that's where approval when
Barbara I persuade as a just returning to
to the paintings am you is that the opportunity
seem all these images in front
me and to reflect on the good I've never seen them all together before absolute
lunacy
2003 taken and high set made you feel
I'm you know is Jack designed one plaintiff
I'm really dislike going and I we seem to sit where I can't see it
trying not to look too then can I ask you back that you could ask me but
its I would rather not talk it to her were blowing
the wetbacks to next to the homes
p.m. %um a religious it's totally unsatisfactory
to be I think are probably were coming into the game
but funny thing a public according to Richmond
a lot of young people like with best
which is something strange mmm
because it's a very miserable painted
I'd I don't mean you shouldn't play visible subject overpaid any measurable
chapter
I think it be bad to concentrate on miserable
subjects you know all previously my date said why do play
church evil miserable pictures and he said because beauty is difficult from
the look at them
they looked like frames from
he really mild colored well
colluding company strip and I've worked during
if you if you were to rearrange
would there be a story there but all I know is that
if there is a store in there it I the begins
which is the same or ed its
with with that one with the main place because
whether it begins or ends is still
fashion historian its when
the work losses painting
take a long time and so weeks
week so months you're thinking about
you know when you go into the studio nurses
terrible agrees old picture you have no idea how we could
sort it out on and so you kinda
expecting every time it will be low
out it looked on a bad day no
well actually happens is you remember
the worse day so and sometime in the future
you go in suppose
unexpectedly and you see the painting but it doesn't look like that a bball
I it looks sleep while you were away
hit somebody finished in well I'm but that should change that perception is me
yeah I'm I'm but it happens
treatment it thank God it happens frequently
because a lot the things you do I love you
daily action so whatever a kinda
rubbing sharply include need niggling so now the
only post in this painting who is
unhappy in their body
is the mine now
who is a term the spaceman
but wearing typical I'm as well
and he ames to explain
I think him through in claim to own these random people
what the secret to the universe things and she
with the crazy girl who think he comply
on showing in the moon
everybody else it intently
doing something she is built
this minute to world like a child
he's to God and she is bill
with pizza sculpture it image
the same the Dubs I'm not fix
do anything so she is a perfect no and she is placed
hun comic cost you and the clown
she's holding dome on this painting
with which is like a comic strip quote from
the water no painting gene
and everybody is embellishing
embellishing the world
on modems home I'm
observer I think that's kind of like
that's what happened is and
and this is different from a lot of the others because
showing people still
in conflict with yeah
mind plates maybe
maybe not though the white karaFun because she is happy with them
but everybody else's and some circumstance which they find
disturbing and
orange good ones are in the process
overcoming that disturbs never assembled I could show %um
the the flying salvation army girl
with the dual whose do
the store and a symbol for spiritual destruction
that she as actually decorated
him to say young your part the real world
as well to you
identify with this current no identified with the women
I'm yeah because the women are the winners
nominal allies like to be on the side in the women's
when I don't think I'm that stupid anyway I mean I would like to be a
spaceman
but grown
much the bill who is dancing
on a dual who is the symbol for spiritual destroyer
and so in a way she is
punishing may be destroying
goal but in this mom she's given
the crown days inns because
I think she's recognized
means also power the world a new cannot remove
homes its own mean some
he's just mcdougal need them
my pretty
got me David thing his
promises going home weekend
maybe home we've said
these paintings can be the kind of textile
have to make painting time but its own home
philosophic time which is I think
isn't this other person but it that
Europe when we are all aware the world
its home I'll contradictions on
rival portions both
which olovely we fun drawn maybe because my
educated in oh maybe
they're attractive in themselves
but we recognize holding com
make came images completely
concert what being a line
a new mission
Thank You Came same spanking
I'm new you put your money
home the power from you put your money
on there's government because you know that every
publishing is backed up by
liberians of through at like doctor yeah
and so it's easier to read your way
into believe provable believe because
all the arguments being plan Ronald
don't put yourself grid but in a funny way
want to talk to deliberately from from dread
I'm maybe
to the extent all making a counter-culture
if you're idea is possible we know from history
there have been counter-culture which
have stronger miss only run
the establishment some
so what is unique about you paintings that would make some people into buying
one
go they can look at them
so a very very very long time
like most paintings I think except
except 1i the Bruegel and
million development problems Yukon
you don't want to actually look at the painting very long because
after a bit you start seeing brush marks
thing world these paintings cuz you can't see the virtual
because I mean this is really part of my
reaction to the 20th century that
painting walls P judge by the
current the brush my X and it's not one thing that should really be in people's
minds when they look at
painting the nicest thing you know
soul was these to all ladies
in the National Gallery and they
I saw them twice I saw them well with them
I'm impressionist paintings
and when a lady said to the other how you look at me after half close your
eyes
and gets group well back from and
and I greedy and that's often how impressionist paintings were
but then I saw him again when they were looking at the younger than i ***
feed I and she said the same thing
and i'm saying no no you don't you get this club since you think
well anyway
I liked the idea that you can look at them
from quite a long time I mean I didn't but I can still look at them
from time because ties
why because to me
they are reassuring like a lot of the time
if you're relying you remember show
you feel very uncertain
you know well i'd anyway and you do
say your teacher sale with
pins love the time
been very on June don't because
kids can been really surprising things and what do you do then
so I like that everything
get be reassured looking something
a kind of work shem to somebody held
could take up koi tum
been specially on people if the control
it
if they can truly you do you say that simply
about young hell no no no nope it because I don't
who's worked for quite a long time since the beginning of the bad
why it wasn't necessary to draw too hot yeah
yeah it would deter sorry to Cinco ideas
agree on six mo
comer serb-controlled but know so they could is
it's a sin it now looks to me as if
I have invented sister to
when which is kinda funny because I didn't intend to
I just wanted to sort it out bus no but I can see it's a usable system well i
kno
don't see it people say to me %um students say
they're gonna do sometimes these move that can only be
they method is fairly clear
and and it works see
you you understand about methodology that's coming out to your work but
but what about the narratives within that method
because every single painting has such a unique
nursing yet but but people like this
anyway that everybody's head is followed
said storerooms all speculations
or I was gonna say even but I don't be
even memories Fulham totally different members
people I'm so everybody has their own
*** him the room encyclopedia
a determined from mine but there's no reason why somebody oceans
20 should include any of the images in
miss but their own images which
their two paintings to make these images real
central the crew share them unlike me say
do the story of my great
cool Harris you know not meet absolutely nothing
but if I show you a picture where the gym %um
investment-led you see more on-field the logical
is debt is so difficult to talk about
a common way of seeing
a common way of describing
in drawing on painting what
the world looks like what
other people really looked like now
and a lot as these images
are about what people look like
then yesterday and
by except this one think the a I think that is still have people who look like
now
but there's something beyond doubt that you might be able to
played a person may be real plus
ideally a real person but
us as they are now to
everybody who sees them to the library in a bus comes up
taxi driver policemen whoever
do you say as that is we've seen him
marceau he is one of us
were nervous
moved notes and next
home
this is a lady
painting a landscape
right in the back loan lady City
to sketchy diesel ninety
actual not accept them than one to
34 different because she would see them in
regional way shoes told I day this woman
is mother geez believe this is not
game which is like Jackson ***
on the ground yeah
geez building it now me
mean working right Jackson used to be a common ground on the ground
my pic after yeah yeah this
next one I don't seem to have a IR
like people highlight looking at people
and watch a the way they behave
love Jess gestures mmm races
speaking and the way their faces change
from close place to open
things and it would be that would be kind of quiet
quite a good enough task
to set on some you know like this I do
lots of people have enough the idea cell but it has to be done
were you paid a sec group of people
like you pay you know neighbors because everybody thinks
neighbors no or something for a bit better
some worsened now but they
would actually think and will be here to objective study
I like the idea that the community of people who were actually a committee
I'm would have something special about themselves that
would want to show it by be good them
if I could paint my own family I think not
problem doom my the ones who aren't here now
not other father my because I'm
that is a portrait my father you know and
why don't know
my parents had so much in them you know
they could do not pay Bible used to think huge *** cowgirl
you know it's Cowboys Martha you most well he was actually a very good
a VirtualBox yeah but I would like to do
and then the grandchildren as well because
on I don't know whether that comes across from you know
knowledge in art history but ish
almost inconceivable a serious
the series painter up some
age should want paint well everybody
started from which is you know UID
the home now could
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ok on on
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