https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/03/21/grace-oscroft-painter/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 26 Mar 2021 21:56:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/03/21/grace-oscroft-painter/#comment-1371786 Fri, 26 Mar 2021 21:56:45 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186115#comment-1371786 Such talent and such a poignant story of the barriers facing working class women. Grace deserves a documentary. Thank you for publicising her work.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/03/21/grace-oscroft-painter/#comment-1371281 Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:53:02 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186115#comment-1371281 What is it with London and its lovely historic buildings. I have to view the place from afar these days but from what I witness from the internet it seems that developers will not stop until every old building is flattened. Boris did not care when he was mayor and the current one seems to be no better.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/03/21/grace-oscroft-painter/#comment-1371280 Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:14:24 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186115#comment-1371280 Such an amazing talent…..Grace was the ‘Cinderella’ in her household.
She could have done so much more….
She is one of my favourites in East End Vernacular.
She would be horrified to see ‘Bow Neighbourhood’ now.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/03/21/grace-oscroft-painter/#comment-1371277 Sun, 21 Mar 2021 15:54:38 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186115#comment-1371277 These paintings have such a quality to them, you can imagine yourself walking along these lovely old streets. The photo of Bow now is quite jarring in comparison.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/03/21/grace-oscroft-painter/#comment-1371268 Sun, 21 Mar 2021 12:21:31 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186115#comment-1371268 Fine paintings & makes me wonder what more she might have done if given deserved support & time. It makes me think again of the seemingly huge absence of East End women’s poetry in just precisely those years too : poetry never encouraged, written on scraps of paper & frail notebooks (or sung inside & never even written down) & more easily lost even than paintings. Only with the Basement Writers in 1970’s really did poets like Gladys McGee & Sally Flood find a chance to be properly listened to & respected. Their poet sisters two or three generations before almost certainly not so (I hope I’m wrong & someone will say, what about ‘…………’ & ‘………..’ !).

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/03/21/grace-oscroft-painter/#comment-1371266 Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:53:58 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186115#comment-1371266 I thoroughly enjoyed looking at the pictures painted by Grace Oscroft. She was certainly a talented artist with an eye for her neighbourhood. Like the other commentator I imagine that if she had been a man she would have risen to prominence. The comparison between Bow then and now is saddening I much prefer the first! Thank you GA

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/03/21/grace-oscroft-painter/#comment-1371265 Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:01:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186115#comment-1371265 Moving paintings of great quality.
Had she been a man, no doubt she would’ve flourished as an artist.
The juxtaposition between Bow then and now is horrific.
You can keep your new Londontown!

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