Comments on: Henry Silk’s Still Life https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/11/13/henry-silks-still-life-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 Sat, 11 Jan 2025 21:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Ana Maria https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/11/13/henry-silks-still-life-i/#comment-1680224 Sat, 11 Jan 2025 21:10:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201462#comment-1680224 Took my breath away. Prosaic? Not when it happens to you. Henry Silk is a gentle artist, someone I felt I could sit with quietly in that undefined place inside where connections live, even if for a moment. Thank you both.

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/11/13/henry-silks-still-life-i/#comment-1648183 Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:17:30 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201462#comment-1648183 Vernacular art has a real beauty and quality to it. I really like the paintings here, there is a contemplative quietness to them.

]]> By: David Steers https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/11/13/henry-silks-still-life-i/#comment-1647423 Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:50:07 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201462#comment-1647423 Fascinating. Interesting, perhaps, that he has the ribbons on his medals the wrong way round – the War Medal ribbon is on the Victory Medal and vice versa.

]]> By: Dirk Wylenga https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/11/13/henry-silks-still-life-i/#comment-1647391 Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:29:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201462#comment-1647391 Beautiful. He deserves his very own dedicated ‘Vernacular’

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/11/13/henry-silks-still-life-i/#comment-1647248 Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:46:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201462#comment-1647248 “Reverie”. Henry Silk, his belongings, and his art-making process.

Here I am, an artist who loves to pile on and create layers and layers of visual compost. And yet
I so admire the deceptive simplicity of these paintings. They are intensely narrative. Timeless.
Enduring. Some of these belongings are so personal, I almost feel like I have to look
away. I am a guest in these rooms, and I have glanced over and seen the rumpled sheets.
Suddenly, I feel like it’s all too intimate. I’m an intruder.

A classic post, revealing a remarkable artist.

]]> By: jenny galton-fenzi https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/11/13/henry-silks-still-life-i/#comment-1646998 Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:53:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201462#comment-1646998 So humbling to see the paintings of all his few personal possessions, which he was so familiar with…..this would be an impossible task to do now, with all our mountains of stuff.

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