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SUMMARY:Corke Gallery: Corke Art Gallery: Andrew Marr\, Strokes of Colour
DESCRIPTION:Strokes of Colour by Andrew Marr\nFriday 16 June – Friday 21s
 t July 2017\n\nAndrew Marr is best known as a television presenter and as 
 a writer\; but his greatest passion is for painting. This will be his firs
 t public show\, and comprises scores of pictures completed over the last t
 wo to three years following a major stroke in 2013. They are\, he has said
  "pictures about being alive – about the brevity and the beauty of it" a
 nd we are calling the exhibition Strokes of Colour. All the painter’s pr
 ofits will go to a rehabilitation charity\, ARNI.\n\nThe works are in oil 
 on canvas and board and are largely non-representational\, influenced by t
 he mainstream Scottish and English "abstract" tradition of the past few de
 cades. Before his stroke\, Andrew was a regular "Sunday painter"\, making 
 oil landscape sketches but his disability has made this irksome and almost
  impossible – dealing with an easel\, oils and paints\, and the British 
 weather is difficult enough with two arms and two strong legs. Luckily\, t
 hanks to the kindness of a local friend\, he was able to open a studio and
  start again in a new way.\n\nWhy Liverpool? The origin of the exhibition 
 was a chance meeting in an aircraft in Italy between Andrew and the Corke 
 Gallery owner Nic Corke. Andrew was keen to have his first show well away 
 from the London hothouse\, but in a city with a strong tradition of seriou
 s painting\; and Liverpool fits the bill perfectly. The show will open wit
 h an invitation only Private View on June 14 and will run for six weeks th
 ereafter\; Andrew will be making several visits to the city to speak about
  the pictures and answer questions.\nPaintings in the Strokes of Colour ex
 hibition are featured and discussed in Andrew’s new book A Short Book Ab
 out Painting\, due for publication in November 2017 (Quadrille\, £15.00\,
  hardback). This follows up on Andrew’s 2013 publication A Short Book Ab
 out Drawing (also Quadrille). The new book uses historical examples as wel
 l as his own works of art to assert his points. Marr’s provocative\, pol
 itical and instructive book is not just an essential resource for all amat
 eur painters\, it is a must-read for anyone fascinated by the creative pro
 cess and the limits of human artistic achievement.
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