Comments on: Dark horses http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/30/dark-horses/ • • • Being a journal by artist and designer John Coulthart, cataloguing interests, obsessions and passing enthusiasms. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:11:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: A Love for Horses - Joni http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/30/dark-horses/comment-page-1/#comment-116667 A Love for Horses - Joni Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:08:28 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/30/dark-horses/#comment-116667 Thanks for posting these artwork with equines. I like the way that horses influence people in different ways. Dark horses -- these are way past what most people would picture if you said horse, but they make you see past the common view and stir your mind. Thanks for posting these artwork with equines. I like the way that horses influence people in different ways. Dark horses — these are way past what most people would picture if you said horse, but they make you see past the common view and stir your mind.

]]> By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/30/dark-horses/comment-page-1/#comment-88693 John Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:54:18 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/30/dark-horses/#comment-88693 Thanks Clive, that second slideshow image is marvellous, the kind of bold thing I always like. Looking forward now to seeing what you do with the rest of the book. Maybe it should be featured here when it's published? Thanks Clive, that second slideshow image is marvellous, the kind of bold thing I always like. Looking forward now to seeing what you do with the rest of the book. Maybe it should be featured here when it’s published?

]]> By: Clive Hicks-Jenkins http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/30/dark-horses/comment-page-1/#comment-88349 Clive Hicks-Jenkins Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:12:41 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/30/dark-horses/#comment-88349 Oooops! I don't think that link is working in the message box. Go instead to my website and click on NEWS in the navigation box. There's one finished image on that page. And if you go to the WORKS page and click on DRAWINGS, the first two images in the slideshow are studies for Equus. C Oooops! I don’t think that link is working in the message box. Go instead to my website and click on NEWS in the navigation box. There’s one finished image on that page. And if you go to the WORKS page and click on DRAWINGS, the first two images in the slideshow are studies for Equus.

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]]> By: Clive Hicks-Jenkins http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/30/dark-horses/comment-page-1/#comment-88348 Clive Hicks-Jenkins Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:08:49 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/30/dark-horses/#comment-88348 No embarrassment necessary. And no critique either. I was just happy to see the drawing there. I kind of assumed that you wouldn't be so perverse as to put up something on your own site which you hated! Callum posted a set of my Mari Lwyd drawings on Front Free Endpaper last year, to accompany some of his own words. He also wrote of my large-scale drawing Deposition III, which he'd seen at the home of some friends. And last but not least, it was his recommendation to Nicolas McDowall at The Old Stile Press, that brought me the commission to illustrate Equus! I'd always wanted to direct the play when I worked in the theatre, but never got closer than directing one by Shaffer's brother Anthony. (And not a particularly well written play at that!) So thanks all round to Callum, who achieved for me, in a slightly elliptical way, the very thing my theatrical agent didn't manage all those years ago! Click here to see one of the finished Equus drawings: Clive Hicks-Jenkins - Biography No embarrassment necessary. And no critique either. I was just happy to see the drawing there. I kind of assumed that you wouldn’t be so perverse as to put up something on your own site which you hated!

Callum posted a set of my Mari Lwyd drawings on Front Free Endpaper last year, to accompany some of his own words. He also wrote of my large-scale drawing Deposition III, which he’d seen at the home of some friends. And last but not least, it was his recommendation to Nicolas McDowall at The Old Stile Press, that brought me the commission to illustrate Equus! I’d always wanted to direct the play when I worked in the theatre, but never got closer than directing one by Shaffer’s brother Anthony. (And not a particularly well written play at that!) So thanks all round to Callum, who achieved for me, in a slightly elliptical way, the very thing my theatrical agent didn’t manage all those years ago!

Click here to see one of the finished Equus drawings:
Clive Hicks-Jenkins – Biography

]]> By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/30/dark-horses/comment-page-1/#comment-88129 John Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:51:52 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/30/dark-horses/#comment-88129 Hi Clive. I feel a bit embarrassed now since I really like those paintings and drawings and reading back I see I didn't say much about them. That's very curious about the Equus connection. I know that Callum has an obsession with the play but I don't recall him mentioning your work, unless he did and I missed it. Great news about the Old Stile edition in any case, I'll have to order one of those. Hi Clive. I feel a bit embarrassed now since I really like those paintings and drawings and reading back I see I didn’t say much about them.

That’s very curious about the Equus connection. I know that Callum has an obsession with the play but I don’t recall him mentioning your work, unless he did and I missed it. Great news about the Old Stile edition in any case, I’ll have to order one of those.

]]> By: Clive Hicks-Jenkins http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/30/dark-horses/comment-page-1/#comment-88107 Clive Hicks-Jenkins Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:10:17 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/30/dark-horses/#comment-88107 Thank you John for mentioning my work on your site. Most kind of you. And the Equus connection with that 2001 Mari Lwyd series of mine, came full circle when Callum James suggested to Nicolas McDowall at the Old Stile Press that I'd be a good choice of artist should the press ever decide to produce an illustrated edition of Peter Shaffer's play. They did, and I'll be completing my part of that project shortly. The book will be published next year. I greatly enjoy reading your blog. Keep up the good work. Thank you John for mentioning my work on your site. Most kind of you. And the Equus connection with that 2001 Mari Lwyd series of mine, came full circle when Callum James suggested to Nicolas McDowall at the Old Stile Press that I’d be a good choice of artist should the press ever decide to produce an illustrated edition of Peter Shaffer’s play. They did, and I’ll be completing my part of that project shortly. The book will be published next year.

I greatly enjoy reading your blog. Keep up the good work.

]]> By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/30/dark-horses/comment-page-1/#comment-81720 John Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:37:47 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/30/dark-horses/#comment-81720 Thanks, Nathalie. That was done very quickly. When you work like that sometimes something appears which you didn't expect. Was certainly the case with this one. Thanks, Nathalie. That was done very quickly. When you work like that sometimes something appears which you didn’t expect. Was certainly the case with this one.

]]> By: Nathalie http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/30/dark-horses/comment-page-1/#comment-81697 Nathalie Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:11:58 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/30/dark-horses/#comment-81697 Extremely creepy painting, John. Frightening (in a good way). Extremely creepy painting, John. Frightening (in a good way).

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