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 Previous Show 2023
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Further to the Side Chapel Suite of paintings (exhibition images follow this statement) I have now been asked many times about my involvement with St. Dunstan’s church and why, over the last decade or so, its monochrome details have come to dominate my art.
 
This is why:
Two weeks before the 2012 London Olympics, walking the dog, I was approached and agreed to be in the church, for a two hour period per week, as one of many volunteers, in order that it was open throughout the month of the two games. To my surprise I found that I enjoyed the experience. Once the Paralympics ended, I could have walked away but realised that I would miss it. I agreed to open the church every Thursday morning 10-12 and continue to do so. I stress that there was no connection with my architectural art – I treated it as a kind of holiday from my usual work. Over a year later it was suggested that I, perhaps, could do small watercolours of details within the building – a medium I had never considered.
 
Starting with five very basic B/W photographs, I am somewhat ashamed to admit that I still didn’t really consider it as serious art and just enjoyed the fun of this new medium and subject matter.
I soon realised that by accident, far from being parochial, I had found a framework in which I could do the high colour thing that has always been a prime motivation. I proceeded to do scores of A5 sized watercolours which sold, via the church, as Spectrum Fine Art had closed down.
 
I remember working on one such watercolour and suddenly seeing it as a large painting.
After some difficulty, I found a firm which could enlarge my postcard sized outlines and print it on their large (3m) roll of tracing paper. When I saw the first few, I realised that there was no limit to what I could achieve. I still remember the excitement of putting the first of these over the white primed canvas, with graphite paper sandwiched between, going over the new outline, lifting it off and finding the result beyond my expectation. I still get a kick when I do this now. This has become the basis for all my subsequent work.
 
Most contemporary art leaves me cold. I have never gone down the part-time teaching route and since moving out of The Metropolitan Warehouse in Wapping many years ago, I mix with no other artists and prefer to work in “splendid isolation”. I do not see myself as being particularly religious (and have no real interest in other church buildings) but St Dunstan’s continues to fascinate. I do not really know why and do not want to know. I am just grateful to have found something that holds me in its grip. Long may it continue.
 
I.B. January 2024 
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2020 Exhibition Images 
​Framed Watercolours 
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FW 01 Sold 2021
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FW 19  Sold 2022
​FW 20 Sold 2021
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​FW 16 Sold 2021
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​FW 24 Sold 2021

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​         The Church is OPEN every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday
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         I open the Church Thursdays 10am - 12pm 
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​“Let’s Go Outside”

St Dunstan’s Church Suite IV
​June 7th – August 7th  2019
5 Tall, 2 diamond shaped and 10 square canvases -
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St. Dunstan’s & All Saints Church
Stepney High Street London E1 0NR
020 7702 8685
 
Limehouse DLR          Stepney Green Tube
Please ring 020 7702 8685 to confirm opening times
Please note: Ian Brice opens the church, without fail, every Thursday morning 10am to 12pm
​Visitors welcome
Previous Show 2017
​Stone Angels
St. Dunstan's Church Suite III
Twelve  Acrylic on Canvas Paintings
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Previous Show
St. Dunstan's Church Suite II
Twenty Seven Small Framed Panel Paintings
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 Side Chapel –
 Orange Window  2015
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 Interior Detail –
 Red Section  2015
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 Roof Beams –
 Stone Curtain  2016
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 Interior Detail –
 Sectional Columns  2015
 
 
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 Interior Detail –
 Winged Lion  2016
 
 
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 Interior Detail –
 Blue Columns  2015
 
 
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 Memorial Detail –
 Grasped Snake  2016
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 Memorial Detail –
 Fish & Ring  2016
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 Chalice  –
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 Side Chapel  –
 Ceiling Vaults  2015
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 Interior Detail –
 Archway  2015
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 Roof Beams –
 Window  2016
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 Parish Room –
 Blue Planks  2016
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 Memorial Detail –
 Flaming Conch  2016
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 Memorial Detail –
 Skull with Laurel  2016
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 Memorial Detail –
 Plumed Helmet  2016
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 Memorial Detail –
 Red Ribbon  2016
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 Thorny Crown –
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 Side Chapel –
 Red Bars  2016
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 Interior Detail –
 West Wall  2015
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 Roof Beams –
 Sun Rise  2016
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 Parish Room –
 Red Internal Window  2015
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 Interior Detail –
 Stairwell  2016
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 Font Detail –
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 Memorial Detail –
 Helmet with Cross  2016
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 Memorial Detail –
 Lion Rampant  2016
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 Baptismal Shell –
 2015
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All work acrylic on canvas board
Size 10" x 8" / 25.5cm x 20.3cm
Sold framed without glass as illustrated on left
Price £220 each, this includes a 10% donation to the church
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