JAMES KELSO
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THE BEAST FROM THE EAST 

Picture

The Winter's Tale
31.5” x 23.5” (80 x 60 cm) / Oil on gessoed panel / £7500

Was it February 2018 when the ice storm came? It gripped our postcode on a Wednesday and stayed for ten days or more. The ‘Beast from the East’ the press called it. I haven’t felt so frozen since I last got the cold shoulder from the RA Summer Exhibition. My objective in the painting was to try to capture the cold. The nickname, ‘The Beast’, hung around in the media. In truth a more accurate title for the picture would have been, ‘The View from the Loo’, for that’s what I painted. The eventual title, ‘The Winter’s Tale’  was, I felt, more poetic with an added touch of - as they say in the ad world - quality by association.


...my hands can’t feel to grip - my toes too numb to step...

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  • Home
  • About JK
  • Gallery 1
    • Dune
    • The Winter's Tale
    • The Raft
    • Vespers
    • Dupuytrens
    • Farewell to Stockevik
    • Gallery 2
    • Gran Via
    • Carriers
    • Isolation
    • La Malvinie
    • 16 Walpole
    • The Ghost Tanker
    • The Shipping Forecast
    • The Didcot Interpretation
    • Site
    • Lake Keitele
    • Tom Stoppard
    • The Maybe Man
    • Double Self Portrait With Knees
    • Post Ironic Iron Horse
    • Terminus
    • Cleared to Land
    • Matins
    • The Worm Forgives the Plough
    • Isolation
    • Red Spotty
    • Landed
  • Prints
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Landed
  • Et Cetera
  • doc, can you.../
  • The Dotty World of Music Notation./
  • Carol Coles