MILESTONES JAZZ, DECEMBER 6

NEXT GENERATION OF GREAT JAZZ MUSICIANS AT MILESTONES JAZZ CLUB
This month’s concert at Milestones Jazz Club on Sunday 6 December
features punchy jazz from the next generation of jazz musicians - The Steve Gilbertson Quartet.

Dynamic drummer Steve Gilbertson leads a band of young London musicians through a varied repertoire of melody driven jazz that references bebop, funk and modern swing. The quartet marries an astute choice of standards and imaginative original material with supple, intelligent improvisation. Steve Gilbertson is a drummer that has quickly become versed in a wide range of music – jazz, rock, pop, modern dance grooves and even pantomime - through his work in studios, teaching and concerts in Europe and the US.

For this performance only the quartet will also feature virtuoso guitarist Ant Law, currently taking a short break from guitar duties in the international tour of the hit West End show, ‘Thriller Live’. A rare local opportunity to witness the next generation of UK jazz musicians destined for great things.

The band’s full line-up features Steve Gilbertson (drums), Duncan Eagles (tenor sax), Ant Law (guitar) and Max Luthert (double bass).

Listen to the quartet at http://www.myspace.com/duncaneagles, visit Steve Gilbertson's website at http://www.myspace.com/stevegilbertsondrums and visit the club website at http://www.milestonesjazzclub.co.uk

All ‘Milestones’ gigs are held on the first Sunday of every month and take place at Hotel Hatfield, Esplanade, Lowestoft with the doors opening at 8pm.
Admission - £7 / £6 (concession).

Flesh on The Bones

The bones maybe in place but still a lot of flesh to materialise. A lot of writing - up to 300 poetry cards for The Poetry Machine, dozens of phrases for The Random Phrase Machine and the DIY Poetry Box to bring together; and the likes of this fella cannot be allowed to escape a wall of text.

100 Works Complete!

Well, the bones of them...

Possibly Unique?

This is possibly unique: my mother Muriel Mallin died in 2002 and left one or two half finished paintings and this painting I decided to develop myself. It is quite a large canvas and I've tried to carry on from the general shapes and colours she left on the canvas. I'm half-caught between emulating her technique and pursuing my own. Some problems within the painting have yet to be resolved and I must complete it this week!

Collage Landscape

Here is a small collage made of lots of pieces of blotting paper.

Small Landscape

Again I have used blotting paper but over painted with watercolour and acrylic.

UPDATING MY LINKS

My list of Links on the right shows a) some folk change or transform their sites and b) others go on vacation. Over the Christmas Break I will not only be updating my Links, but will also highlight/publicise some Old Favourites and some New Sites on the Block. If you have a site you think I should link to, just drop me a line and link!
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Undoubtedly the online social networks of Facebook and Twitter have taken over from Blogs as a means of instant individual and collect communication. However, I argue, the Blog (even better than websites) records and documents - and have become a wing of history making. This, I think, is their role now - a role I applaud.

Even The Painting Is Boxed

More for my 100 Works Project

"A Landscape Of Another Country"

A work in development for 100 Works.

A Detail

A small detail of a piece for 100 Works.

Out Of The Machine

Inspired by the Poetry Vending Machine, here are some new boxes off the conveyor belt - Out Of The Machine...

Allsorts of Art

Here's another work in progress for 100 Works: a comment on Gormley's Trafalgar Square 'Fourth Plinth' Project. I doubt Gormley's supposedly democratic art work could have happened without the X Factor and the New Labour project of empowering individuals over Working Class activity. The irony of promoting the individual as a commodity is that individuality is lost in the act. Plinths and TV votes don't raise the masses but lower them - at the same time as they lower Art.

Scores of Images for Small Boxes

Here is a very small image - one of very many I'm creating to help fill small boxes of art work and text...

Getting Dental

This pink stuff is the rubbery compound placed in your mouth to take/make a cast for false teeth... "in progress" for my 100 Works.

CHANGES TO RUPERT'S BLOGS

From now until the new year a number of changes will take place to Rupert's Blog and attendant blogs:-

• East Coast Art News has ceased. East Coast Net, the ARC Blog (to which I contribute), The Waveney Valley Blog and Rupert's Blog itself cover all the regional arts and cultural news making East Coast Art News redundant.
• The Heather Poems (Letters) Blog will grow over 2010, along with my Broken Links Blog, which will publish more general poetic contributions.
• My Voice Visual Blog will be retained to develop it into an online Gallery for my own art work, while larger scale projects or more complex projects will appear on my Fifty-Seven Pence Blog.
• The Asparagus Shed will be relaunched soon!

Most importantly, Rupert's Blog (this blog) will be made even more eclectic and magazine like in the new year, while my online magazine textVISUAL will realise a second issue this December.

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The Tom Mallin and Muriel Mallin Galleries will also be updated by the new year, with a new Gallery for the work of Don Rout.

Leaves Like Fireworks

Walked the four miles to my factory studio today. Some of the leaves had dried out from earlier rain and sounded like a fire underfoot. It must be November 5th - just over three weeks left to create over 100 works.

Snow

Last year's rather than an expectation for this winter's fall.

Homage To The Rock Man of Hunstanton

You can find out about the Rock Man of Hunstanton on this blog.

Sea and Soil

A Notebook

A hole in my notebook.

From This...

To This

INSPIRING POET LISA LEAVES FOR AUSTRALIA

I owe a huge debt to poet and organiser Lisa D'Onofrio for bringing me into a group of artists and poets for a collaboative project in Norfolk/Suffolk six years ago. Out of our successful collaboration the InPrint Group was formed.

Lisa's 'Poetry Vending Machine' (details of which you can find out about on this blog) was groundbreaking - in its originality and popularity. It was written about on a Guardian blog and is still an East Anglian reference point when discussing collabrations between poets and artists.

Lisa is now off to live in her native Australia with her family. However, via the internet, the globe can be a small place and I hope we can all remain in contact - to collaborate via the ether!

One way or another Lisa's "vending machine" will live on. Part of the work I'm engaged in via 100 Works is to create word/art boxes 'out of the machine' - together with an actual Poetry Machine (yes, a 'machine' that creates poetry).

Lisa's leaving do can be viewed on the Inprint Website. All wishes Lisa & Co!

Morning Light in The Factory

Morning light enters the factory. I've now had a studio here for two years, ten months.

Colour and Style

I'm dumping some old books as I look through them for source material for my art work but some texts and images are too good for the bin. Here is a wonderful Fifties house - the style, the colour...

Bread, Water, Knife

Bread and water are emotive symbols - as is the knife. These pages are taken from a book 'How To Paint Still Life,' which was reprinted in 1960, so very much in the era of Modernism (although the book speaks of 'modern pattern' rather than abstraction). Through the book we're taken on a painting journey all wonderfully illustrated, step by step.

However, I prefer the draft 'groundwork' painting on the left rather than the finished work. In the draft we know the exact subject matter - bread, water, glass, plates, knife, table, so what is the need to make all appear realistic except as documentation? The first painting is painterly. There is no need to over paint it. Indeed, examine the quickly marked shadow under the knife on the left: it has more depth and thereby 'life' than the finished article.

Also, the over painting adds nothing - symbolically or in a painterly way - to the composition.

What do you think?

Product or Draft?

Here is another still life painting from the book.

Draft or Product?

According to the text this is the groundwork for the finished still life painting (above). Once again I prefer the simplicity of the draft to the completed work.

Dismantling a Book on Painting

Having taken the book to pieces in my mind, the least I could do was to reconstruct it in reality.

Sons of Victory

The book is a boy's adventure and was a school prize received by a lad, Christmas 1914. It seems to have been given to him by the headmaster, his father: Sons Of Victory... A hole lies at the centre of this object.

Nest or Basket?

Other items pop up, often in boxes, around my studio...

Boxes, Painting, Collage...

I'm working on several different themes in a wide range of media at the same time. So, last week I ran between painting and collage to assemblages using found materials and boxes. Many of the boxes will be accompanied by text, while other visuals will incorporate text within them. I'm also working on a couple of 'poetry machines' - one static, one animated. All these works are 'in progress.' With just four weeks in which to create over 100 works I will have to make some fast decisions at the end of November to choose which are shown and which are binned...

Watercolour and acrylic

Here is part of a landscape which is a collage combining watercolour and acrylic.

Dark Landscape

Here is a lengthy landscape. It is a collage of hand made paper, black ink and paint - and is still a work in progress...

More Images Using Black...

Detail of a landscape: Night

Here is a detail of a landscape. Once the photographic cartridge ink dried, I began pushing back against the intensity/density of the black with poster paints.

Image For A Small Black Box

'Out Of The Machine' - a series of art/poetry boxes I'm working on - a development from the Poetry Vending Machine with the Inprint group.

Ink Effects

The rough and layered hand made paper was dipped into a bowl of photographic cartridge ink.

A Hand Made Paper Landscape detail