Lost Coat Found in Mall Exhibition

Yesterday was the coldest of the autumn so far, and I was tempted to dig out my twenty-four-year-old coat. I had second thoughts; it's still not cold enough for such drastic action.

The old coat, once lost to animation pioneer, John Halas, in a mix up at the South Bank, (FULL STORY) can now be seen as part of the Discerning Eye Exhibition at The Mall Galleries.

The paintings by Ashley Hanson will be on show from 13-23 November 2014.

Further details on how the coat came to be included in Ashley's series, The City of Glass, can be found here.

Brown Coat & The City of Glass

Brown Coat @ The Plough

Brown Coat @ The Plough

My shabby brown coat has seen off Mrs Thatcher and has been seen in a Falmouth Chip Shop.  Now it's being displayed at The Plough in Torrington, in one of two exhibitions in Devon by artist Ashley Hanson   this month.

‘The New York Trilogy’ The Plough Arts Centre, Great Torrington, Devon	5 July – 28 July
The Gloss Gallery Exeter, Devon	4 July – 24 July

The Coat and the City of Glass

I was with an artist friend of mine, eating fish and chips in Falmouth.  He turned to me and asked me where I had got my coat from.

Despite my wife and kids telling me I look like a tramp in it, readers of this blog will know how attached I am to my coat, so I was pleased with the interest.

However, my friend went on to say that he was looking for a beat up old brown coat for reference in a series of paintings. 

Later, in Ashley Hanson's Bodmin studio, he talked through the ideas behind his latest, impressive, painting in his City of Glass series, as well as taking some reference shots of the coat. He tells the story behind these painting in his blog: http://ashleyhansonart.blogspot.co.uk/

Informed by the writings of Paul Auster, the series takes it's name from  the first book in his The New York Trilogy.