Cathy's Art Diary

Imaginative exhibition at Trinity House of new work by Bartholomew Beal. These were big, colourful, figurative paintings taking inspiration from literary figures. He uses a beautifully painted central figure placed in an imaginative space. Beal likens his work to poetry. The works were full of colour and I loved “I Have Lost the Earth” a female figure wading in a sea of colour and the more portrait like “Spare Us From Loveliness” of a woman in blue again a plain pink background. Closed 4 December 2019

Lovely exhibition at the Fine Art Society of new work by Bartholomew Beale. These works had a ghostly quality with dark but brightly coloured backgrounds and ethereal figures such as “The Hyacinth Girl”. I loved “Where do you wait?” which looked like a man in a corn field but I felt it had an implication of death. The title piece is of a ground of down and outs roudn a shed with their scattered belongings. One of them has a solid body but no legs and there are squares of colour floating over the whole picture. I liked the air of melancholy about these pictures. I am not sure what they meant but I liked them! Review Independent