Comments on: Jock McFadyen, Artist https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/01/jock-mcfadyen-artist-i/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 02 Mar 2023 12:40:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Graeme https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/01/jock-mcfadyen-artist-i/#comment-1503162 Thu, 02 Mar 2023 12:40:01 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194933#comment-1503162 As an exiled east ender Jock’s wonderful paintings whisk me back there in a way that photos don’t.
The Bingo hall used to be an Odeon. I think there were 3 cinemas in Mare Stree at one time. I used to go to Saturday Morning pictures at the ABC followed by Pie and Mash at Cook’s in Broadway Market and go swimming at Laburnum Baths in the afternoon. Happy days!

]]> By: Robin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/01/jock-mcfadyen-artist-i/#comment-1503066 Wed, 01 Mar 2023 14:35:04 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194933#comment-1503066 Fascinating. Jock has a real eye for structuring the canvas to lead us through his melancholy landscapes. Cool dark colours; relentless geometries of modernity. No urban nostalgia here! They remind me of Edward Hopper, but with the “urban despair” focused on the city rather than the people.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/01/jock-mcfadyen-artist-i/#comment-1503059 Wed, 01 Mar 2023 12:52:06 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194933#comment-1503059 What a concept!? — A gifted artist who also has a direct approachable way of speaking about his
art-making process. ( I cringe when an admired artist dives into their “art-speak” jargon, and I am left to decode the mystery.)

Wonderful, descriptive paintings that evoke never-visited-but-oddly-familiar places. I so appreciated the push/pull of the deserted spaces that seem so inviting and beckoning. It awakened a long-past and dangerous enjoyment of exploring vacant buildings.

Thanks for shining a light.

]]> By: Ursula Whitbread https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/01/jock-mcfadyen-artist-i/#comment-1503033 Wed, 01 Mar 2023 07:49:54 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194933#comment-1503033 Thank you so much for showing us this amazing Artist today. Can’t wait to go to his Exhibition!

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/01/jock-mcfadyen-artist-i/#comment-1503032 Wed, 01 Mar 2023 07:43:05 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194933#comment-1503032 Hoots mun!
These, to my gloriously untrained eye are rather wonderful paintings with a dreamscape element. Lots of sky, like what I have in Silly Suffolk. I must get this book one day.
Excellent.

]]> By: Andy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/01/jock-mcfadyen-artist-i/#comment-1503028 Wed, 01 Mar 2023 07:00:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194933#comment-1503028 A very good cause. A very good artist.

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/01/jock-mcfadyen-artist-i/#comment-1503022 Wed, 01 Mar 2023 06:26:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194933#comment-1503022 Jock McFadyen is indeed a very good landscape painter — could he otherwise have captured the true landmarks of realistic everyday life so well?

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/01/jock-mcfadyen-artist-i/#comment-1502992 Wed, 01 Mar 2023 01:31:03 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194933#comment-1502992 If that’s the New Globe at Mile End I have fond memories of drinking in there when I was a mature student at Queen Mary 30 years ago.

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