Comments on: Henry Silk’s Still Life https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/10/23/henry-silks-still-life/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 01 Nov 2022 08:36:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: Carolyn Hooper https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/10/23/henry-silks-still-life/#comment-1489755 Tue, 01 Nov 2022 08:36:13 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193400#comment-1489755 Bravo, Henry Silk! Just beautiful………..

]]> By: Christina Gregoriou https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/10/23/henry-silks-still-life/#comment-1489071 Tue, 25 Oct 2022 07:56:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193400#comment-1489071 Morning, I would love to see these paintings in real life. Is that possible?
Beautiful colourist. I really think they are beautiful paintings.

]]> By: Hels https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/10/23/henry-silks-still-life/#comment-1488848 Mon, 24 Oct 2022 00:42:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193400#comment-1488848 WW1 must have left Silk in an isolated and lonely life. Thank goodness the gas didn’t destroy his eyesight or hand-eye coordination or we would not know of his talents today.
Hels

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/10/23/henry-silks-still-life/#comment-1488823 Sun, 23 Oct 2022 18:01:43 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193400#comment-1488823 A poignant story

]]> By: Nicholas https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/10/23/henry-silks-still-life/#comment-1488815 Sun, 23 Oct 2022 16:30:24 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193400#comment-1488815 Always a pleasure seeing these

]]> By: Robin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/10/23/henry-silks-still-life/#comment-1488810 Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:19:20 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193400#comment-1488810 Beautiful and poignant.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/10/23/henry-silks-still-life/#comment-1488808 Sun, 23 Oct 2022 14:42:19 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193400#comment-1488808 If I may “come in a different door” with this comment — I not only appreciate this amazing array of ultra-personal paintings, but I also love the layout of the blog post today. These “slices” of paintings, each one a lingering glance at a familiar object or view, are so evocative. These mostly-horizontal views welcome us into the artist’s world………the collective grouping is like a click-click-click slideshow of a well-loved room. The pipes, the shoe, the laundry line, the rooftop, then back inside again……..the chair, the pouch — wait, that face in the mirror — the medals, the matchboxes.

Thank you, GA, for this intimate introduction to Henry Silk.
Onward and upward.

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/10/23/henry-silks-still-life/#comment-1488793 Sun, 23 Oct 2022 10:08:16 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193400#comment-1488793 Very moving pictures.

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/10/23/henry-silks-still-life/#comment-1488788 Sun, 23 Oct 2022 09:01:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193400#comment-1488788 That’s amazing, Henry Silk did exactly what I also do every day: I observe the objects gathered around me (my desk looks like Henry painted it) in different daylight and document them — but I don’t paint them, I capture them photographically. Even coins and matchboxes. All little still lifes. As painted by Henry.

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/10/23/henry-silks-still-life/#comment-1488785 Sun, 23 Oct 2022 08:37:42 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193400#comment-1488785 Great stuff.
Like the chair and work boot.
The photograph at the bottom brings to mind Walter Sickert’s ennui. Cool.

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