John Poynton - more of his work.

This charcoal and paint has come light caught on the right hand side in photographed reproduciton, the person who this was purchased from described it as a 'morning scene.' I did promise to put this up earlier and my apologies for the delay, life recently has been a little hectic until I was overcome by the need to bring this picture out.

The great thing about art is that it is to each of us something different, and what the artist or writer has created is an attempt to free the imagination of the viewer or the reader. In this work from John finished in 1995 I see a whole of life scene at least from childhood to middle age. There seems to be a longing there of an earlier innocent time before the child became a woman and her life was crossed over by moon light and love once stark upon the horizon. But whatever it was that John was showing us, it certainly allowed the imagination free reign.

Hello out there.

I'm continuing with a few days off but for those interested, add that I have recieved the Greek themed sketches by John Poynton from Pandos and will get them up as soon as I can. I also have another painting of John's which I will put up, it's the first I've owned of his although there are others in the family.


Cheers for the new year.

John Poynton

Something struck me about this work by John which he completed in 1977. I put this on my blog with the owner's permission. For months something has struck me about this particular piece, something which when I mentioned to the owner they didn't dismiss but noted that they hadn't 'seen' or thought of what this work tends to illustrate for me.
Anyway, I hope others enjoy it as I do.
Feel free to offer any thoughts about this crayon work.

In passing....John Poynton.

The death of English painter John Poynton in adopted homeland of Samoa, last month in his home on the falls of Mt Vaea in the village of Palisi.

John lived in Samoa from the 1970s and once had a ram-shackled gallery on the foreshore near the Government buildings on Beach Road. In more recent years he fell upon what he freely admitted ,in a matter of fact way, were hard times. He had unsuccessful surgery in Samoa to correct a sight problem, he described the operation as a 'botch up' which left him with poor vision and he was frustrated by needing to use his pencil or paint brush with his 'good' eye only centimetres from the work while holding his 'bad' eye closed.

The last time I saw him he was walking out from a fast food store holding his portfolio of paintings and drawings in one arm and food in his free hand just brought with money from the sale of some drawings and paintings. I didn't know the man well but by some good fortune some in my family did, seeing him reminded me of the many writers and artists that have come under the spell of the South Pacific and who, like John, were devoted to their work in an exotic life-style that endlessly changed shape in one's imagination.

Salute John