Comments on: Ed Gray’s Innocence & Experience https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/10/15/ed-grays-innocence-experience/ 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, 17 Oct 2023 22:14:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ed Gray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/10/15/ed-grays-innocence-experience/#comment-1524719 Tue, 17 Oct 2023 22:14:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197483#comment-1524719 Thanks for all these comments. They really mean a lot. Linda I often use my own work in art workshops with children. I’ll be taking some groups to this exhibition. Their reactions are always fascinating, especially because they know the city. Their questions are wonderful and they give me much to think about.

Cherub, I hear you. It’s not for everyone. The city is and has always been a heaven and a hell. You can’t have one without the other. You find your quiet places, and the anonymity is wonderful too, compared to some of the smaller rural places that I’ve lived in. I guess I find people endlessly fascinating, and I love the fact that cities bring us together. They make you respect difference, and understand it, for the most part. Of course there are exceptions and sometimes people respond in angry ways to depictions of a diverse city. But yes it’s a busy place sometimes and capturing that buzz is a challenge that intrigues me.

Lynne, lovely words. To capture a soul and make it move someone as it moved me is a real challenge that I struggle with. That’s why my paintings take so long.to make. To keep the energy of a street sketch alive through to the final finished canvas is a constant battle.

Thank you Tanya.

Robin, those are all my favourite painters. Each gives me so much to think on in the studio. Thank you for picking up on them all.

John, thank you for those words. Celebrating and sharing our common humanity is exactly the reason I make this work.

]]> By: John Campbell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/10/15/ed-grays-innocence-experience/#comment-1524552 Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:11:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197483#comment-1524552 I’ve looked at a lot of art over a lot of years and it’s great that I can still get a warm glow from something new to me. These are magnificent!

]]> By: Robin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/10/15/ed-grays-innocence-experience/#comment-1524432 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 14:53:44 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197483#comment-1524432 Fascinating reinvigoration of 1930s social realism, with a sharp eye on the now. Reminds me of Ben Shahn and Jacob Lawrence, maybe mixed with some Daniel Celentano, all rethought for our present day. Superb!

]]> By: Tanya Ambrose https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/10/15/ed-grays-innocence-experience/#comment-1524423 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 13:22:43 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197483#comment-1524423 Magnificent work

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/10/15/ed-grays-innocence-experience/#comment-1524419 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 11:54:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197483#comment-1524419 What a breath-taking array of paintings! So much to admire here: Celestial colors, swirling
compositions (I love how the artist directs our eye), incredible details, and narrative power. The term “melting pot” has rarely been given a better stage. Just LOOK through this series, once more, and take note of the vast variety of souls, all swirling together, interacting, churning, taking up space, making room for others, being human.

I am thoroughly wowed by this artist. Thank you, GA, for the gift of creativity on an early Sunday
morning in the Hudson Valley.

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/10/15/ed-grays-innocence-experience/#comment-1524414 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 10:52:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197483#comment-1524414 Liverpool Street and Mile End stations remind me of why I left London 20 years ago. I don’t think I could have coped with another 20 years.

]]> By: Linda Granfield https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/10/15/ed-grays-innocence-experience/#comment-1524408 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 09:57:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197483#comment-1524408 Tremendous vitality in these paintings.

“Everybody Loves the Sunshine”–Madonna and child in the centre, the ‘Michelangelo’ fellows/sculptures on either side of the foreground–so much balance with a nod to art of the past.

I’d love to be there to listen in on what a group of school children would chatter about as they view these paintings! Kids love details–they won’t want to leave the gallery!

]]> By: Ed Gray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/10/15/ed-grays-innocence-experience/#comment-1524400 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 08:16:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197483#comment-1524400 Please book via info@edgrayart.com
to visit this exhibition…..

Opening hours:
Friday 20 October 3pm-7pm
Saturday 21 October 11.30am-2pm & 3pm-6pm
Sunday 22 October 11.30am-2pm & 3pm-6pm
Tuesday 24 October 3pm-7pm
Wed 25 October 7pm- 9pm
Friday 27 October 7pm- 9pm
Saturday 28 October 11.30am-2pm & 3pm-6pm
Sunday 29 October 11.30am-2pm & 3pm-6pm
Thursday 2 November 6.30pm-9pm
Friday 3 November 6.30pm-9pm
Saturday 4 November 11.30am

Free school visits by appointment October 30 – November 6

]]> By: Ed Gray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/10/15/ed-grays-innocence-experience/#comment-1524397 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 08:03:02 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197483#comment-1524397 ❤]]> Thank you so much ?✊️❤️

]]> By: Jonatan Madden https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/10/15/ed-grays-innocence-experience/#comment-1524396 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 07:56:32 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197483#comment-1524396 I love Ed’s work, it’s great that you’ve featured him. His paintings capture the vibrancy and life of the city but above all they all have a story to tell. I never tire of looking at my print of Liverpool Street in the morning, it reminds me so much of my commute from the suburbs for so many years. Looking forward to visiting the exhibition in Princelet Street.

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