Rooftops

Rooftops, oil on card, 10 x 11.7 cm

This is a sister painting to Grey Day- view from the cemetery, painted just over a week ago (see entry below) and is painted from nearly the same place. The chaos of yards and houses is hard to trace: your best hope is just to give an impression, to fall into the rythm of the place, as I guess Auerbach and Kossof did in London.

Buying work from this site

Most of the pictures on this site are available for purchase.

The small recent pictures (labelled "pochades") are currently priced at 100 Brazillian Reals (57 US $, 43 Euros or 36 UK pounds), and therefore represent excellent value for collectors.

The prices are set low to encourage new buyers and because I believe original art should be accessable to all.

Packing

Packing is usually 10 Reals for up to 5 pochades. (5.70 US$, 4.30 Euros, 3.60 UK pounds)

Postage outside Brasil

Fast postal rate is 60 Reals (up to 2 weeks) (34.13 US $, 25, 67 Euros, 21.38 UK pounds)

Cheap and slow is 15 Reals (takes up to a month) (8.53 US$, 6.42 Euros, 5.35 UK pounds)

I reccomend the fast rate of postage. It costs the same to send 5 pictures as it does to send one, so it makes sense to purchase several pictures at the same time.

Postage within Brazil is cheaper, but I do not have the prices to hand.

Total

The total cost of one picture is usually: 100 Brazillian Reals + 10 Reals Packing + 60 Reals postage= 170 Reals ( 96.70 US$, 72.73 Euros, 60.57 UK Pounds) .

Payment

In the UK, payment can be by cheque or direct transfer to my UK bank account.

In Brazil, payment can be by cheque or direct transfer to my Brazillian account.

Elsewhere, payment is by SWIFT transfer into a UK account.

Any questions?

Send any enquiries to me at Tadeusz598@yahoo.co.uk or telephone me on 55 48 3223 0461

Laurel Tree

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Laurel tree, oil on card, 10 x 12.1 cm  - available

A day of extraordinary beauty, one of those days that is so beautiful that one feels slightly sad.

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My picture is similiar in feel to 18th century sketches. I feel that this size is about right for me: smaller is painful, cramped, larger and one loses speed.

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When I think of Laurel trees I think of the beautiful painting by Pollaiuolo in London's National Gallery, Apollo and Daphne, quite a bizarre little picture.

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Buying Work from this site

Most of the pictures on this site are available for purchase.

The small recent pictures (labelled "pochades") are currently priced at 100 Brazillian Reals (57 US $, 43 Euros or 36 UK pounds), and therefore represent excellent value for collectors.

Packing

Packing is usually 10 Reals for up to 5 pochades. (5.70 US$, 4.30 Euros, 3.60 UK pounds)

Postage

Fast postal rate is 60 Reals (up to 2 weeks) (34.13 US $, 25, 67 Euros, 21.38 UK pounds)

Cheap and slow is 15 Reals (takes up to a month) (8.53 US$, 6.42 Euros, 5.35 UK pounds)

I reccomend the fast rate of postage.

In a forest

In a forest, 9.3 x 11 cm, oil on card

Paintings like this, of foliage, have virtually become a sub-genre of mine.

Brasil, or at least the island of Santa Catarina, rarely offers the sort of mediated landscapes which are so characteristic of England: meadowland punctuated by copses or small woods, ideal for hunting. Either things are densely wooded here, or they are open. Ergo, the sort of classical landscape where you have clearly defined fore, middle and far distances, is less easy to find in nature.

Little tree, wet day

Little tree, wet day, oil on card, 11 x 13.5 cm

Painted from the car parked in the semi-developed residential area behind Iguatemi Shopping Centre: rain: everything wet:

Midwinter spring is its own season
Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown

T.S. Eliot, from Little Gidding (1942)

Ken Park (2002): review- 1.5/10

Adolescents in Visalia CA and their relations with their parents.

Features visceral scenes showing masturbation, oral sex, group sex, masturbatory-asphyxiation, bondage, suicide, murder, scateboards and pustules.

All this might make the film reasonably amusing, but it isn't. It rambles, the characters hardly develop and the relationships between them are rarely interesting .

Sadly, moreover, the actors are too ugly and uncouth for the film to succeed as pornography.

Grand Canyon (1991): review- 3.5/10

Ensemble piece set in LA, featuring blacks of the working classes, various whites -usually wealthy- and the charmless progeny of both races.*

This eliptical fim attempts to make some sort of moral-existential point, but fails: the sort of parables as comprise films such as these demand a dramatic energy that is missing here.

This could be because the script lacks a clear central ethical dilemma, or because the characters are suffocated by a worthiness (suffocated by the sentimental presence of de-liturgicised religion- "spirituality", constantly exhorted by the director to Do Good) that reduces the scope of choices available to the the characters, sapping their spirits.

Indeed, probably, the only characters in the film who get any real fun out of life are the robbers at the start.

And you always know to be wary when humour is completely absent in a narrative art work; because where humour is absent, mawkishness or moralism enter.

*Quite why do Americans have such atrocious table manners? Could it be the cowboy legacy, when meals were eaten in the dark round a campfire after a hard days droving, and none of your fellows could see how you chewed with your mouth open and waved your fork around like a fly swat?