Paintings by folk musicians and dancers

Subject: Paintings by folk musicians and dancers
From: black walnut
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 01:04 PM

I love Jim Dixon's thread "Paintings of folk musicians and dancers". It made me also think about paintings created BY folk musicians and dancers.

Here's one to start things off. EILEEN MCGANN is a Canadian Celtic singer who lives on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. She is a fabulous painter as well:

http://members.shaw.ca/emcgann/art.html

~b.w.

Subject: RE: Paintings by folk musicians and dancers
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 04:43 AM

Stan Hugil was a fine artist as can be seen by visiting his website.
He was a natural who only took it up because he had a broken leg and couldn't get about.
eric

Subject: RE: Paintings by folk musicians and dancers
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 05:34 AM

Apparently I didn't pick up a closing char when I copied the second link. Clones will be asked to delete the preceding.

eric the red –

I find a number of sites with a search for Stan Hugil, but they all appear to be in several languages foreign to me. Google suggested the alternative "Stan Hugill," and if did find two links, apparently to the same person as "Stan Hugil" at:

Stan Hugill 1 - appears to be a "memorial site/page." Has about 2 dozen paintings, which they say are "representative" of about 250 he did during retirement, althought the captions indicate a long span during which he painted actively(?).

Stan Hugill 2 appears to be the "home page" for the same "Stan Hugill" site. Although I got to this one via a separate search result that made it look like it was a different site, the link to his paintings was "cookied," so I believe this is the "home" for both.

The paintings are impressive, but unfortunately are "presented" at very low resolution, even in the "big" views, and several seem to have been photographed or scanned "through the glass," since there seem to be "reflections" that obscure the detail. They're definitely worth a better look.

A quick search in my normal "art" circles didn't show another place to get a better sampling of his work, but it should be worth poking around for. I'll try to make some "side searches" as I pass through some sites that might have something that doesn't show in the major search machines.

John

Subject: RE: Paintings by folk musicians and dancers
From: GUEST,Philippa
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 08:33 AM

Brian Vallely of Armagh Pipers Club paints, and many of his pictures are of musicians

Subject: RE: Paintings by folk musicians and dancers
From: Alice
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 09:12 AM

Alice Flynn, art and music.

Alice Flynn
Montana

Subject: RE: Paintings by folk musicians and dancers
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 10:21 AM

I have downloaded Stan's painting 'African Sunset [ The Cape Trader ]
it looks fine to me.
eric

I'm sure Stan would forgive me for misspelling his name.

Subject: RE: Paintings by folk musicians and dancers
From: black walnut
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 04:54 PM

This is great. When I was a teenager in high school, I had to choose between "visual arts" and "music". It was a shame, because I wanted to do both. I love seeing that it's been possible for some people to excel at both.

~b.w.

Subject: RE: Paintings by folk musicians and dancers
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 05:04 PM

I have been a spectacular failure at both! I feel, though, that the same piece of art will often manifest itself in several media. I did a project once where I transposed my poetry into music, caligraphy and painting. It was interesting and I often think I might give it another go. Those who are blessed with talent should make the most of it!

Subject: RE: Paintings by folk musicians and dancers
From: open mike
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 06:56 PM

greg brown's paintings have been used as album covers.
www.gregbrown.org

Subject: RE: Paintings by folk musicians and dancers
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 07:55 PM

eric the red -

The "single l" spelling does seem to be what is used on most of the "Germanic(?)" language sites, so I suspect that it should not be called a "misspelling," just a translation. He is found both ways, depending on where you go.

The images at the site are good enough to admire, it just depends on how closely you want to admire them - and on how large you'd like to be able to make them to put over the 'puter. My comment on image quality should be taken as "The guy is good and I'd like to see how he did the brush strokes" rather than as a criticism of the site.

I will be watching for more of his work.

John