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above the litter |
Only an
outsider could appreciate the beauty of north London, Canadian artist
Mychael Barratt tells Jane Wright
WATCH out good burghers of Hampstead, Highgate and Islington’s
Caledonian Road. There’s a man with a camera and sketchpad
about just dying to capture you, your neighbour, roofline and local
pub and put them onto canvas.
In fact, you may already be there in Highgate artist Mychael Barratt’s
latest exhibition of oils and prints which opened at Gallery K in
Heath Street, Hampstead, at the weekend. For the show depicts with
his trademark humour and affection what Mychael calls north London’s
“great cast of inhabitants” and “the wonderful, unplanned
little vistas of historic buildings from overlapping periods which
are everywhere you look”.
At his home in Tile Kiln Lane, Highgate, he says: “In Hampstead
and Highgate I don’t need to think what to paint next. I can’t
help just walking around and seeing things. The buildings have become
equally important, but it’s impossible to draw stories without
the people. I gather people up.”
So he explains that when he needed more faces for his oil painting
of an opera singer and her audience entitled ‘It’s not
over ‘till the Fat Lady Sings’, “I’d look for
them each day when I walked my two daughters to school. Everyone
there was seen between my house and St Michael’s primary in
North Road, Highgate.” |
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