ISLEWORTH ART GROUP
‘A FOR ‘ORSES, T FOR TWO – BUT WITH SOCIAL DISTANCING David Laskey March 2020 was the last physical meeting of the Isleworth Art Group in St. John’s Church Hall, Isleworth, before Covid19 hit. The art group, around fifteen to twenty enthusiastic amateur artists, was not only a weekly art class but a social event, so a few of us carried on meeting twice weekly throughout the past year on Zoom to spend a pleasant forty minutes discussing professional artists’ work, followed by a not too critical look at each other’s homework. Louise Anderson, the group tutor, set us the alphabet project. We would each in turn choose an artist for the group to study and then create a piece
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of work based on a letter of the alphabet, loosely in their style. I remembered Bob, a work colleague from the distant past, would come out with letters from the Cockney rhyming slang alphabet: ‘B for mutton’, ‘C for yourself ’, ‘F for vescence’. I decided my art alphabet would be in Cockney rhyming slang. My first week’s homework: ‘A for ‘orses’, vaguely in the style of Vincent Van Gough, was received as a bit of an oddity by my fellow students. The letter ‘O’, in Cockney rhyming alphabet, ‘O for the rainbow’, fitted very well with the new rainbow emblem of the NHS. I produced this one in the style of Grayson
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