MA ByamShaw 2010

Wendy Plovmand

"All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

Oscar Wilde

(Images above from solo exhibition at the Danish Embassy London, 2010)

Darren Beatty

acrylic on canvas,110x80cm, 2010
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Terry Dynes

Lucía Rivero

STILL PROJECT

Christina Papanicolaou

Based on "The Young King" by Oscar Wilde"

"The lad - for he was only a lad, being but sixteen years of age - was not sorry at their departure, and had flung himself back with a deep sigh of relief on the soft cushions of his embroidered couch, lying there, wild-eyed and open-mouthed, like a brown woodland Faun, or some young animal of the forest newly snared by the hunters."

The Young Animal King Series

Five Paintings: oil on board, each 20 x 24 inches

Nadia Berri

Cristina Pedreira

Taedium Vitae

Drawing on paper, 29 x 42 cm. + Polaroids.

Taedium Vitae

To stab my youth with desperate knives, to wear

This paltry age's gaudy livery,

To let each base hand filch my treasury,

To mesh my soul within a woman's hair,

And be mere Fortune's lackeyed groom, - I swear

I love it not! these things are less to me

Than the thin foam that frets upon the sea,

Less than the thistledown of summer air

Which hath no seed: better to stand aloof

Far from these slanderous fools who mock my life

Knowing me not, better the lowliest roof

Fit for the meanest hind to sojourn in,

Than to go back to that hoarse cave of strife
Where my white soul first kissed the mouth of sin.

Oscar Wilde.

Trilogy (work in progress)

Acrylic, ink and collage on canvas.

1. and 2. 30 x 25 cm.

3. 25 x 20 cm.

Jayne Lloyd

I find it har der and harder every day to live up to my blue china...
Oscar Wilde
(click on quote to view sketchbook blog)

40p Cup, photograph, 13 cm x 18 cm
Takeaway Cup, biro on polystyrene cup, 12 x 6 cm
Blue Cheese, photograph, 29 x 21 cm
Odd Socks, socks and wax, 40 cm x 40 cm (approx.)

Patrycja Basinska

"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible"

Oscar Wilde, in a letter

Incarnations