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stephen HORNSBY-SMITH
Jul 6, 2015
Divisive past uniting future: Consumer led advances in technology renders corporate world and the st
Artists have always obsessed about two fundamentals: the transformative nature of the imagination, and about freedom of expression....
Jun 29, 2015
Conversions: Adapting and evolving – “Terrified I’d forgotten my lines”
The objective and the process of conversion is essential for all artists, and specifically for painters. Life is neither symmetrical or...
Jun 2, 2015
Ambivalence towards Political Correctness
Political Correctness and its opposite have a high profile narrative to engage the rudimentary basics of political, social and economic...
May 24, 2015
Human Camoflage
Are we distorting human instinctiveness, our innate human camouflage, by our socialisation processes? Do we not ‘disguise’ our...
May 4, 2015
Backlash and negative campaigning
Europe has already begun its negative campaigning against Anti-Europeans in its most difficult partner- Britain. Through diplomacy or...
Apr 27, 2015
Brash for cash, or brush and not fussed.
Tracey Emin was either hostile or manipulative in her early conceptual works - but the ’‘Unmadebed’ got so much bad press that she became...
Apr 20, 2015
I Thought you Artists only Played with Crayons all Day?
Theme: The forgotten side of Atlee’s government: some instances of oversight, inconsistency, or expediency in the making of foreign and...
Apr 15, 2015
Extremes
Just like emotional extremes, the bi-polar opposite of representational or abstract painting, have been in a log-jam of ‘passé’,...
Apr 3, 2015
The Welfare State
Was it just an idealistic move by Nye Bevan to create the NHS? 1. Tens of thousands of permanently disabled soldiers, maimed in terrible...
Apr 1, 2015
Have the wheels come off the bandwagon of "Painting"?
1. We should celebrate 150-ish years of modernist art, but we seem fixated with the ultimate extreme of abstraction as the polar opposite...
Mar 16, 2015
Cascading positivity
Easter, for Christians, is the apex of their faith, centred on the resurrection of Christ. Here Christ defeated human ignorance, fear...
Feb 16, 2015
Human and Natures Extremes - Colour
In reverse psychology, I’ve used accessible coloured inks to depict dark, remote and terrifying ordeals, wreckage, carnage and the fickle...
Feb 15, 2015
Human and Natures Extremes - Black
My latest series of drawings originate from nature's destructive course and wildlife's carnivorous nature, to the carnage left in the...
Feb 7, 2015
Escape
These paintings depict the desperate attempts to escape where people risk everything for freedom. I wanted to remind people of the...
Feb 2, 2015
"Hunted to Extinction" - Exhibition
My exhibition will run from 31 March to 12 April 2015 at the Oxmarket Centre for the Arts, Chichester. www.oxmarket.com
Jan 27, 2015
Hunted Tortured and Annihilated
Imagine the almost biblical levels of starvation of over a million Ethiopians on your TV, as reported by Michael Buerk in the mid 1980's:...
Oct 3, 2014
Update on 'Frames' (Sept 2014)
Instead of frames drawn or painted, leaving a ‘black’ space inside a frame, I meant leave a ‘blank’ space inside the frame. Blank, being...
Sep 30, 2014
Oxmarket Centre of Arts Exhibition
My work will be on display at the Oxmarket Centre of Arts in Chichester until 12 October. In this exhibition, (30th Sept-12th Oct) I’m...
Sep 29, 2014
Godalming Museum Exhibition
"Hunting species to extinction is a human vice, but the selfless protection of wildlife can be a human virtue. My job as an artist is to...
Sep 15, 2014
Sludge Fund
From all formal envelopes (bank, insurance, investments etc.) I’ve drawn black and brown ink patterns, meant to denote the ordeal of the...
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