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Isleworth Art Group
‘A FOR ‘ORSES, T FOR TWO –
BUT WITH SOCIAL DISTANCING
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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 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
Perry. The letter ‘T’ was ‘T for two’, but in this case ‘with social distancing’ and in the style of Banksy. There are two variations for ‘Q’: ‘Q for the loo’ or ‘Q for the cinema’. That week’s inspiration was the installation specialist Louis Bourgeois, the artist who designed the giant spider that was exhibited at Tate Modern. With no people around to form a queue due to lockdown, I resorted to using my children’s old toys, stored for many years in the attic. The larger soft toys formed the queue for the cinema, to see the film Toy Story before Covid. Playmobil people became the queue for the loo, with social distancing during lockdown. Hopefully, the Isleworth Art Group will be able to commence physical lessons again soon. If there are any budding artists out there, no matter what ability, please get in touch and come along and join us. Meanwhile our Zoom art group is still going strong.
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