Comments on: Doreen Fletcher’s Early Paintings https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/08/doreen-fletchers-early-paintings/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 15 Jun 2020 23:39:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Claire Mkinsi https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/08/doreen-fletchers-early-paintings/#comment-1342135 Mon, 15 Jun 2020 23:39:06 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=181858#comment-1342135 These paintings seem simultaneously to be both realistic and poetic. What longing they stirred in me for the lost city scapes of my home city, Stoke-on-Trent. Doreen has taken something I always assumed was depressing and mundane, and transformed them into something beautiful, poignant and precious. The colours are somehow intense and all these paintings have helped to remind me that there is beauty in the ordinary.

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/08/doreen-fletchers-early-paintings/#comment-1341771 Thu, 11 Jun 2020 10:31:04 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=181858#comment-1341771 Doreen’s talent just blows me away. I’ve tried to buy her books before, but sadly ‘sold out’. I just hope someone sees fit to reprint them at sometime. I can lose myself in her pictures and in my own memories of life as I grew up.

]]> By: John Campbell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/08/doreen-fletchers-early-paintings/#comment-1341527 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 21:56:31 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=181858#comment-1341527 What a treat to see more of these great pictures. Thank you Doreen for your wonderful work.

]]> By: Pamela Traves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/08/doreen-fletchers-early-paintings/#comment-1341521 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 21:09:01 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=181858#comment-1341521 Ms. Fletcher has Such Lovely Paintings.?????

]]> By: Nicholas Sack https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/08/doreen-fletchers-early-paintings/#comment-1341517 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 19:56:19 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=181858#comment-1341517 Wonderful paintings by Doreen, who time and again elevates the commonplace to the extraordinary. One particular aspect that comes across in her notes is the necessary gap between first sighting her subject and committing paint to canvas – a ‘gestation period’ of sometimes many years. The vision must fully infuse and distil. The results, witnessed here, are lucid, shining and potent.

]]> By: Patsy Pankhurst https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/08/doreen-fletchers-early-paintings/#comment-1341509 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 18:24:58 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=181858#comment-1341509 Super paintings, a lovely trip down memory lane.

Just one more comment – Sheldons Hairdressers & Shop was definitely situated in Silverdale and not Knutton.

]]> By: L E Williamson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/08/doreen-fletchers-early-paintings/#comment-1341492 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 14:43:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=181858#comment-1341492 Thank you GA and thank you Doreen! I grew up in the industrial Midlands in the 60s/70s and they certainly speak to me.

The quiet atmosphere of these paintings notwithstanding, there so much technical skill too; I was very struck by the reflection of the buildings opposite in the shiny black surround of the hairdressers windows.

A joy on this Monday morning.

]]> By: Steve Beckett https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/08/doreen-fletchers-early-paintings/#comment-1341485 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 13:02:30 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=181858#comment-1341485 Not that long ago but a world away from shops & streets now!

]]> By: David Johnson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/08/doreen-fletchers-early-paintings/#comment-1341483 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 12:43:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=181858#comment-1341483 I used to live in Newcastle-under-Lyme in the early 1970s and these wonderful paintings are very evocative of the town then.

]]> By: Eric Forward https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/08/doreen-fletchers-early-paintings/#comment-1341482 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 12:28:34 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=181858#comment-1341482 Love these – especially Chatwins Bakers – and highly recommend the book.

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