A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Painting
Forgive Me Father For I Know Not.
Paul Richmond explores the development of his sexuality in a fascinating series of paintings which adeptly blend figurative and abstract elements. Some of these resemble painted Photoshop collages which may well be how they started out. If so he’s one of the first painters I’ve come across who works this way.
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• The gay artists archive
Boys in kimonos and shirtless youth are Hideki Koh’s thing and you can see more of these at his site or at Mayumi International. As is all too common, most of the examples shown are painfully small although he has a page of wallpapers. A tip for artists everywhere: we don’t want to steal your work, we just want to see it properly.
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• The gay artists archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Secret Lives of the Samurai
• The art of Sadao Hasegawa, 1945–1999
• The art of Takato Yamamoto
The Artist’s Chair.
Cody Furguson’s work is a lot more painterly than that of many other gay artists and I like the way some of his recent pictures have backgrounds with a texture of flickering gold and abstract motifs reminiscent of Gustav Klimt. Makes me wonder why no one has tried updating the Klimt style, replacing those ubiquitous females with men. Furguson sells all his work and also accepts commissions at very reasonable rates.
Graffiti Wall Saint.
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• The gay artists archive
To Live and Die in LA.
I really like Ryan Martin’s beautiful paintings of fey youths in vibrant, vaguely surreal scenarios. Those familiar with the work of Leonardo da Vinci may recognise Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want as being based on The Lady with an Ermine (1490). There isn’t a great deal of Martin’s work around since he’s only just starting out but you can see more of it at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art.
Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want.
Cupid de Locke.