Comments on: Jock McFadyen, Painter

By: Sparks

Sparks — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 11:05:35 +0000

I love this work – my favourite of all the artists to date!

By: Georgina Briody

Georgina Briody — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 04:33:09 +0000

So enjoyed these paintings, so real, brought back happy memories of my childhood especially Aldgate East station which, as a family, we used so much visiting relatives.

By: Donald Parsnips

Donald Parsnips — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 20:14:33 +0000

Unique, succinct and evocative paintings , I have to comment that Jock is a master of his subject and that we will be looking at his pictures a long time hence .

By: Jonathan Madden

Jonathan Madden — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 14:11:45 +0000

I love Jock’s work, honest and epic but they all celebrate the beauty of the ordinary. I like them all, particularly The New Globe, I believe was used on the cover of Ed Glinert’s excellent book East End Chronicles.

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 13:31:11 +0000

This new discovery is so surprising and unique in every way, it actually makes me light-headed.
(in a great way!) Every image in this series is an incredible statement, but full-frontal “The New Globe” got my pulse racing. A stunning innovator — he imparts a sense of place, with a wallop.
Many thanks.

By: Nicholas Sack

Nicholas Sack — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 09:35:23 +0000

I’m a huge admirer of Jock McFadyen’s paintings, some of them vast in scale. He has a rare ability to be simultaneously delicate and fine-lined, and robust and forceful. A few years ago I saw his magnificent show 30 floors up in the Clifford Chance tower at Canary Wharf: nicely subversive that scenes of urban dereliction were hung in a monument to high finance.

I thoroughly recommend his monograph, ‘A Book About a Painter’, published by Lund Humphries in 2001. It includes portraits of passers-by, folk encountered on the street: wonderfully grotesque figures in bleak urban settings, reminiscent of the American painter Ben Shahn in the 1930s.

By: Libby

Libby — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 08:55:11 +0000

Wonderful!!

‘Looking West’ and ‘Three Colts Lane’ and ‘Roman Road’. All beautiful – but those, for me, especially.

By: John Barrett

John Barrett — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 07:51:21 +0000

Friederike/GA: Jock is an immigrant to the East End the boy has made good he is now an Ender he’s an artist & biker. I am going to call him the straight line man !yes Jock has gone ‘straight’ so many lines on some of his pics, of which, I could live with. He shows lots of London pride that’s nice. The clever photo of him shows him as a wise owl. Poet John. PS – Keep scrambling all over those big…..big canvases Jock perhaps paint for a smart office block lots of potential here. You must have lots of petrol still in the tank. I have yet to see a painting in the Vernacular groupings of the iconic London Gherkin Tower, day or night in St Mary Axe EC3 as a main feature, lots of approaches with other surrounding structures & trees would have been nice to have been included.

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 07:33:59 +0000

This work is amazing. I will never see Aldgate East station in the same way again. Great that Lucinda Douglas Menzies is photographing these fabulous painters.

By: Chris Dyson

Chris Dyson — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 06:53:51 +0000

Jocks vision of the east end is inspirational
As an architect I enjoy the clarity
The beauty in the ordinary
BUD