Comments on: Dorothy Rendell At Whitechapel Bell Foundry

By: Adrienne Roche

Adrienne Roche — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 22:30:13 +0000

As ever, Dorothy Rendell’s paintings & drawings are marvellous. I had not seen most of these before now. Even though I knew Dorothy, she never was one to draw attention to her work (I did see her Soho drawings) apart from a few paintings. Thank you GA, as the previous post says, for being her champion.
I just hope that sufficient numbers of residents or workers will voice their complaints about the proposed hotel…how awful it sounds…

By: Jennifer Newbold

Jennifer Newbold — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 18:02:23 +0000

Every time I look at Dorothy Rendell’s work I think, “God, she had such an enormous talent!” I almost expect the men in these drawings and paintings to step off the page and have a conversation with me. THANK YOU for being her champion. Otherwise these are things I would never get to see.

By: Eric Forward

Eric Forward — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 13:56:27 +0000

Living here I’m biased, but there’s something magical about the East End. Creative people also seem to get drawn to the same places. I move away this year, I’m going to miss it so, so much.

By: Paul Loften

Paul Loften — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 13:10:34 +0000

Oh now you have gone too far . The exposure of these wonderful paintings and drawings by Dorothy Rendell is a sneaky act! Designed to inflame the feelings of innocent bystanders who only saw a few bells and tools hanging abouta deserted workshop Now we see a history of workers and artisans . we see people creating , working , thinking . We see things that have been going on at this foundry for centuries. That is not what people are supposed to do ! They are meant to sit in the foyer of bijoux hotels and drink coffee.
I am just an innocent bystander .

By: Diana Levey

Diana Levey — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 12:30:36 +0000

These images by Rendell are incredibly good, don’t know how else to respond briefly to them. I must say, that I love photography…but there’s nothing that can capture like an artist whose talent is very fine. Thank you again for making her available to us to know and her work to enjoy.

By: Jill Wilson

Jill Wilson — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 12:11:50 +0000

I am going to send an addition to my original objection saying that I have found the hotel proposal very sneaky and dishonest… there is a lot of guff about saving the bell foundry when in reality there would only be a token bit of small bell making, and only right at the end of the Raycliff planning application is there a mention of the hotel, almost in small print in an attempt to get their hideous proposal through…

I just hope the planning people at Tower Hamlets can see through this subterfuge, and see how much better the alternative plan would be!!

By: Jill Wilson

Jill Wilson — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 11:59:40 +0000

Yaaay! Fantastic that Dorothy Rendell also did drawings of the Bell Foundry…and brilliant that there have already been so many objections. It would be even better if we could make it over a thousand. Come on anybody who hasn’t yet written or emailed…

By: John Barrett

John Barrett — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 08:55:24 +0000

Poet John liked today’s input

By: Cat

Cat — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 06:26:58 +0000

Fascinating that one of the workers is reading a book in his lunch hour – now he would probably be looking at a screen. What a lot we can learn from artists.