Title: Food of Love (1)
Media: Oil on canvas
Size: 180cm x 130cm
Reactions
The following is a selection of comments and reactions about my work taken from visitors books at various exhibitions. An interesting read.Ruth, Cornwall:
“Lively, exciting, hopeful”Sue Ledly, London:
“Sexually aggressive! Wow! How come I have missed out on these parties, So much energy Colin. You inspired me to get down to much larger work”D. Blizzard:
YEH!Bruce & Lou Allen:
“Monumental, wonderful, awe-inspiring, terrific I could go on and on”David King:
“You’ll never get to heaven with a soul like that”Sally Jones, Cornwall:
“Love it”Eric Wedlake, Constantine, Cornwall:
“Reminds me of the experience of life: When you are young you know what you are about, but as you grow older the more confusing it becomes”Rachel Muslin:
“??????”Sonja Walter:
“Congratulations Colin, Impressive and a really good environment”Tina Mills:
“Beautiful, touching yet bold and rich. Great ideas – enjoyed it!”Tyra Mills:
“I think they are ugly. What does anyone see in them”D. A. Finder, Wembly:
“Interesting, powerful”Emily Boriosi:
“Truly splendifeous”Brian, Porthcurno:
“Powerful”Frances, Camborne, Cornwall:
“Horrible, very ugly, I’m reporting to the police”John Higgins:
“Deliciously, decedent – well hung”Jamie Buckingham:
“Rude and hot”Kate Broad:
“A cross between Hockney’s “Splash” and Beryl Cook’s “Union St, Reflections”.Kev:
“A daunting look to the future, but chaos is unavoidable”Phil Williams, Leicestershire:
“And again the question is asked; Does this man have a serious comment to make upon the ways of the world or was he just smoking something?”V. Fugster:
“FULL OF ENERGY!!”Pam Entwistle:
"Stunning – mind blowing"Harry Cranshaw, USA:
“Exciting, deserves another look”P. Woydt, Hamburg, Germany:
“But is it art?”Sue Morris:
“I love the small water colours of course. Now having seen your large work, I was Gob-smacked by the intensity, the size and the colour”Diana Pinches, Perranuthnoe:
“Lovely to see some of your work Colin, I found it fascinating & so alive”F. Carter:
“Powerful, impressive pieces of work, but extremely confusing”Nick Carter, Truro:
“Very powerful! Sucks you in and seems to cover aspects of humanity; passive, dominant touch & physical compassion for alternate motives. Loved it!”Clive Cox, Carlyn Bay:
“Would like to see your treatment of landscapes”Simon Fox, London NW:
“Visually stunning”J. Williamson, Merseyside:
“Larger than life”S. Moyle, Falmouth:
“Glad that innovative art is alive & flourishing”G. Simpkin (Age 68).
Such vigor, colour, life. A suggestion of the Medieval “doom” painting-‘The Hell Session”Isabel Hedges:
“Tremendously alive, great sense of rhythm and movement, stunning colours, some disturbing paintings”Isabelle (France):
“C’est tre’s bien et tres instruction”Harry Edwards:
“Felt the bodies (hotter than bacon) but not a lot of soul (i.e. physiological pressure)”Susie and John, Birmingham:
“We were on the way to the pub, dropped in here to see the exhibition. Excellent! Still off to the pub though.Matthew Ford:
“Tubular”Art lover:
“Very crude and very boring”Nick & Nyasha Newton:
“Fertile, exciting”Roger Davidson, Oxford:
“Admire your integrity and vision. Thanks”Jane Phillips-Smith, Helston:
“At last an artist who isn’t stuck in a time-warp and is not afraid to take risks and go on an adventure. Thanks Colin”Rose Davis:
“Thanks for being you”Anne Grace:
"Terrific, thanks"John Elliot, East Sussex:
“Remarkable and new to me – well done"Catherine Hooper, California, USA:
“You can look at these for a long time”Simon Hall, Hub Theatre School:
“I looked around once and when I looked again they were all paintings I’d never seen before. Funny old world eh”Belle Cantin, St-Aubin, Switzerland:
“Line peinture differente de ceffes dea autres, mais geniale!”Unknown:
“Sexy man”Amanda Congdon:
“Full of potential for making your own store”Luke (7 years):
“Effects your body and souls”Helen Fisher:
“Monumentally indulgent”Joanne Matheson:
“Very deep. It reminds me of bed, nice and complicated and quite colourful in the right places”