Comments on: Doreen Fletcher’s New Exhibition

By: Austin Clegg

Austin Clegg — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 22:51:34 +0000

What amazing paintings! It seems as if every brick has been painted with care. Yet these are not dull photorealist images. Just look at the skies.

The subjects are well chosen, and then there is the wit to soften the painful feeling of the transience of all of this- ‘The Little Cottage’ and the oblique Banksy reference amongst others less obvious.

Austin Clegg

By: Phil Cunningham

Phil Cunningham — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:19:00 +0000

I love these paintings. I was in Browns every week. Where did they go?

By: Lucy Maitland

Lucy Maitland — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:30:13 +0000

This is beautiful work. There is such an evocation of a place in transition.

By: Des

Des — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:56:26 +0000

Bow Road Police Station is the one for sure !! Well done Doreen

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 09:02:17 +0000

I am so pleased Doreen has taken up art again – both the older works and the new ones from 2017 are utterly enchanting. I love her work.

By: Nicholas Sack

Nicholas Sack — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 22:14:20 +0000

Rampant vegetation climbs over the walls and roof of the Silvertown ‘cottage’; a sinister dental surgery at night; mounds of used tyres… Ms Fletcher is an unflinching chronicler of the shabby and overlooked, investing all before her gaze with a tender poignancy.

‘Fried Chicken Shop’ is a mournful lament: lurid yellow fascia beneath grubby painted brick and inscrutable windows. A bruised sky; the lamp-post leans, slightly. The traffic light is green, yet nothing moves.

This is serious, haunting and powerful work.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 20:05:25 +0000

Fantastic realist paintings, for me, capturing the real London, fast being snatched away from us. Thank you Doreen, moving and gritty.

By: Jill Wilson

Jill Wilson — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 19:04:28 +0000

Yes – great atmospheric and fantastically detailed paintings and they will be even more interesting in years to come when the East End has changed yet again – especially things like the car wash with all those heaps of tyres! So glad she is painting again (so much better than boring old conceptual art!!)

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 18:37:34 +0000

Extraordinary ability to capture the light.
Popcorn stand, Thames Pier, The Queens Head & Summer in Limehouse have an almost photographic quality to them.

By: Peta Bridle

Peta Bridle — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 17:19:09 +0000

Congratulations Doreen on your return to painting.
Hope your show goes well.
Best wishes
Peta