Jack (Playing Card transformation)
- 00:04:09
- YouTube
Jack (Playing Card transformation)
Playing card animations from Gordon Joy, England. In 1985, the Royal Academy of Arts Business Gallery arranged for Joy to exhibit his paintings of British landscape in Tokyo, then he went on to produce a major sequence on the down lands of Wiltshire and Berkshire for the Ridgeway Exhibition in Swindon. This series features prominently in The Ridgeway: Europes Oldest Road, published by Phiadon Press, written by Richard Ingrams (ISBN 0-7148-2506-9). I give top marks to Gordon Joys architectural studies, small paintings in acrylic on board which reproduce, with a miniature painters attention to detail, the intricacy of Islamic architecture and its rich marble inlays. They incorporate glimpses of gardens and sunlit foliage; he captures the quality of light with a clarity reminiscent of French painters working in Rome around 1830. Taken from The Independent, Contemporary Art Market By Geraldine Norman Certainly my father, John Betjeman (Poet Laureate 1972), who lived somewhere along the Ridgeway for nearly all his married life, did not indulge in solitary ambles along the downs. Of the thirteen artists who have contributed to make this book a great pleasure, it is Gordon Joy who wins my prize. His choice of view is spot on, his conjuring of the place, for me immediate. The Literary Review, June 1988. Candida Lycett Green. Following an initial period when he specialized in landscapes, Joy developed an increasing interest in architecture, in particular where it betrays the influence of Islamic culture, after his first exposure to this in Venice in 1986. In 1989, Joy made a prolonged visit to Saudi Arabia, exhibiting in Jeddah early in 1990. His first London one-man exhibition was From Three Continents with the Francis Kyle Gallery in 1991. Since 1984, Gordon Joy has been represented by the Francis Kyle Gallery, London, participating in many of the gallerys theme exhibitions including: The Lost Domain 1986; Venezia Ancora (1987); Paradise is Here...Ten Painters in Mogul and Rajput India (1989); Twelve Painters Take the Pilgrim Road to Santiago de Compostela (1991); The Piero Trail (1994); and Artists Take to the Forest and Cities and Water (1995). In 1994, Joy returned to landscape as a major theme, staying for some months on the northwest coast of Majorca. He has been rediscovering English landscape in East Anglia, in particular those areas of Suffolk where Constable and Gainsborough worked. Recently, he has been painting the architecture of Ancient Rome and is now working in oils. The exhibition, Roma, opened the 18th March 03. His next project will focus on the city of Naples and in 2004/5, the Footsteps of the Leopard in Palermo. Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), was written by Lamperdusa and is a classic novel about the unification of Italy. Now working on animating his paintings.
YouTube | February 15, 2009
