Comments on: Doreen Fletcher’s New Paintings https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/15/doreen-fletchers-new-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 Sat, 18 Jun 2022 18:28:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/15/doreen-fletchers-new-paintings/#comment-1467917 Sat, 18 Jun 2022 18:28:56 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192090#comment-1467917 I love Doreen Fletcher’s work, and am honoured to have a book of her work. Such a talented artist, and one who has such feeling for social history and scenes fast disappearing. Interesting to learn more of Dagenham too. One of my little friends moved there in the 1950s as her father had a new job at the Ford factory there. I sadly never saw her again. Thank you Gentle Author for sharing this, and thank you Doreen for all your amazing paintings.

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/15/doreen-fletchers-new-paintings/#comment-1467577 Wed, 15 Jun 2022 19:28:25 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192090#comment-1467577 Beautifully melancholic.
Lovely.

]]> By: Neil Anthony Holbrook https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/15/doreen-fletchers-new-paintings/#comment-1467566 Wed, 15 Jun 2022 17:39:44 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192090#comment-1467566 Such beautifully detailed, evocative paintings by Doreen. I totally get her comparison of the abandoned buildings on the A13 to the docklands areas, once the docks had closed…

]]> By: Celeste Larkin -Dion https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/15/doreen-fletchers-new-paintings/#comment-1467553 Wed, 15 Jun 2022 14:06:56 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192090#comment-1467553 Thank-you for this latest body of work, Doreen . Congratulations! I love them!

]]> By: Raymond Julian-Huxley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/15/doreen-fletchers-new-paintings/#comment-1467543 Wed, 15 Jun 2022 11:27:43 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192090#comment-1467543 These are fabulous I have her book and like many have said her work is very much Edward Hopper homage,

may she continue to turn out these beautiful works, there is so much crap generated today it’s always and immense pleasure to see work of this superb quality

]]> By: Sarah Ainslie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/15/doreen-fletchers-new-paintings/#comment-1467526 Wed, 15 Jun 2022 07:58:51 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192090#comment-1467526 I love these night paintings especially Becton Fox, that magic hour when day and night merge and create something mysterious.

]]> By: Greg T https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/15/doreen-fletchers-new-paintings/#comment-1467518 Wed, 15 Jun 2022 07:20:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192090#comment-1467518 Doreen:
You need to look at Walthamstow Wood St ?
https://goo.gl/maps/K88CHHrjnYCB19REA
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]]> By: keithb https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/15/doreen-fletchers-new-paintings/#comment-1467516 Wed, 15 Jun 2022 07:13:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192090#comment-1467516 The night-time views especially the Beckton fox painting make me wonder if the artist has thought about painting more 1960s buildings.

Slightly down at heel modernism is something I grew up with and feel comfortable in. Yes, a minority taste!

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/15/doreen-fletchers-new-paintings/#comment-1467515 Wed, 15 Jun 2022 07:05:08 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192090#comment-1467515 Fabulous work as always Doreen, and a fantastic record of a fast disappearing world.

And the night time paintings are extra special. The one of the garage reminds me of a journey my mother and I made to see my father who was in a nursing home in Norfolk. We had gone to spend what would be his last Christmas Day with him and it hadn’t occurred to me that the petrol stations would be shut on that one day. And so we were driving home on empty going by many closed forecourts and my mum was getting more and more twitchy when suddenly out of the darkness a lit petrol station appeared in the distance… at the same moment as the Hallelujah chorus was playing on the radio. Hallelujah indeed!

]]> By: rebecca biwdeb https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/15/doreen-fletchers-new-paintings/#comment-1467508 Wed, 15 Jun 2022 06:10:05 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192090#comment-1467508 Love these – especially the ones of Forest Gate.

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