Comments on: Dan Jones’ Paintings

By: Margaret

Margaret — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:59:36 +0000

Dan Jones’ books accompanied my three children through their childhoods, and those same books are now in the possession of the grandchildren. I’m not sure who enjoys them more: the boys themselves; their mother as she relives her childhood; or their grandmother as she remembers happy evenings curled up with one or more of the children, chanting out the rhymes and poring over the illustrations.

By: Cherub

Cherub — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 18:51:24 +0000

The painting of Brick Lane in 1978 takes me back. I was visiting my older sister who lived in Goodmayes back then and a friend of her partner offered to take me out on the Sunday. First stop was Brick Lane and we turned the corner into an NF demonstration. Being a 17 year old from a small Scottish backwater I was absolutely terrified, this was not my world at all. 15 years later I was a mature undergraduate at Queen Mary College in Mile End and how I grew to love going down Brick Lane; later on I ended up working in Spitalfields.

Been back in Scotland 10 years and still miss the old haunts, had a nice visit to them last year.

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 15:20:42 +0000

Great paintings by a lovely man.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 20:04:56 +0000

These are quite reminiscent of the paintings by Camberwell based artist Ed Gray, which often use the rich tapestry of London life – and it’s colourful array of characters – as source material for his detailed scenes of urban life.

Then again, you could say the reverse as he is a more recent artist.

By: peter

peter — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:20:13 +0000

Alan, I heard that said teddy was aggressively looking to ‘ave a meat pie.

By: Brandon Ayre

Brandon Ayre — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 13:19:06 +0000

These are great paintings.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 13:06:14 +0000

Exquitise! A cross between Raoul Dufy and Lowry, busy and lots of people and activities. Wonderful sceneries of good old London. I would love one on my wall. How much are they?

By: Roger Lewis

Roger Lewis — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:53:09 +0000

Thank you GA. Wonderful paintings. My favourite is the depiction of the 1996 Cable Street anniversary.

By: Achim

Achim — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:39:52 +0000

To Alan: *** LOL! ***

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: Alan Gilbey

Alan Gilbey — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 10:49:38 +0000

Well I remember the horror of the giant teddy bear attack of 1987. No one knew from whence it came, or what it wanted in the Whitechapel Road. But, mercifully, it’s only weakness was the ultra-sonic resonances of large struck bells and it happened to be passing a bell foundry. With a growl of primal pain it ran off in the general direction of Harrods. Let us pray we never see its yellow radioactive fur again.