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Grahame Ashcroft and Dave Bullock. Photo by Minako Jackson

If the climb up to the top floor of View Two gallery doesn’t warm you up then the artwork certainly will. It’s so bright and colourful it lifts the spirits and warms the blood (or was that the wine?). Interesting subjects and compositions too.

Dave Bullock paints onto large sheets of paper which have been carefully adhered to the gallery wall, though the series of smaller tiger-like creatures are framed.

The two artists complement each other well, they have known each other for a long time and have exhibited together occasionally.

Grahame Ashcroft – Dave Bullock. Recent (and not so recent) Paintings
10 June  – 10 July 2010. A selection of paintings from a series based upon and inspired by a ‘Mad March Day’ in the hills of Wales by Dave Bullock and Exterior landscapes, interior landscapes. The seen and imagined. by Grahame Ashcroft

Hares & Buzzards. – A selection of paintings from a series based upon and inspired by a ‘Mad March Day’ in the hills of Wales. Dave Bullock

‘My paintings arrive like strangers at the door, I invite them in, get to know their stories. Exterior landscapes, interior landscapes. The seen and imagined. Perhaps, after all, They’re the same thing.’ Grahame Ashcroft

Barcelona (mirror, mirror) by Grahame Ashcroft

Hare and Buzzard Series No. 3. Non-Voting Floater by Dave Bullock

I’m really quite pleased with this. I haven’t done any painting for quite a while but this abstract turned out very nicely. I was hoping for more of a landscape but the nature of the machine wouldn’t allow it. I painted it using the robot Optimus Wayne which has just been installed in View Two gallery by the artists Wayne Hill and James Diable.

You can have a go too, either at the viewing tonight or on Friday or Saturday afternoon (it may well be extended another week as well).

Artists Wayne Hill & James Diable present Optimus Wayne, an Art Robot that you can control via pressure pads. 2-4 July 2009

Private View Event: Thursday 2 July 2009 18-21.00. Join us and Paint with the Robot!

Exhibition: Optimus Wayne will be working at all times on these dates
Thursday 2 July 12-17.00
Friday 3 July 12-17.00
Saturday 4 July 12-17.00

I am Optimus Wayne I am an art robot

I’ve recently been collaborating with Wayne Hill and James Diable and the unsuspecting public to create the robotic paintings of the future.

My assisstants play on the connotations that I am a process for mass production, traditionally seen as an enemy of individuality.

The artists work as my apprentices. In public showings the audience are given the chance to be both the viewer and the apprentice, controlling my robotics with an array of pressure pads thus challenging who the artist actually is.

I have no feelings or ego, these privileges are for my assistants and maybe whoever has control of my pressure pads. So the public are the Artists and we are the servants to the machine that is the public.