{"id":2645,"date":"2014-06-01T07:48:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T14:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2014-06-01T08:21:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T15:21:30","slug":"municipality-of-oak-bay-painted-piano-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/?p=2645","title":{"rendered":"MUNICIPALITY OF OAK BAY ‘PAINTED PIANO” PROJECT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMUNICIPALITY OF OAK BAY ‘PAINTED PIANO” PROJECT
\nI am starting painting on the piano this coming week. The idea was presented to me by Barbara Adams who is co ordinating this project for Oak Bay.
\nI will post photos of the progress as it develops over the next few days.
\nMy idea is to focus on the new series of works I am doing on Canada’s west coast. I want to create an iconic impression of our special coastline. I find it a challenge because obviously every sunday painter will do this imagery. The challenge is to do it in a way that goes beyond the cliche and create something that nails the image in a way that everyone can relate to in a new way, while at the same time latching on to that iconic idea. I don’t want to do a scene of a particular place. The imagery is from my own space. It is simply the feel or the spirit of our coastline as I have experienced it over the past fifty years since I arrived from Scotland.
\nI believe that our coastline merits a good study because it is our part of the world with it’s own history and beauty. It would be easy to dismiss it as too local. But I like challenges and I enjoy doing things that the establishment in the “artistic community” might dismiss.
\nI’ll never forget hearing a comment made by someone from a Public \u00a0Art Gallery. They said something to the effect….”if I see one more painting of a flower I’ll scream”.
\nThe comment stood out for me because I found it very narrow in thinking. I would never close my mind to an idea. One never knows where it could lead.
\nIt takes courage to “risk” being boring.
\nI think artists should take risks. That is why I am focusing on our coastline right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MUNICIPALITY OF OAK BAY ‘PAINTED PIANO” PROJECT I am starting painting on the piano this coming week. The idea was presented to me by Barbara Adams who is co ordinating this project for Oak Bay. I will post photos of the progress as it develops over the next few days. My idea is to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2653,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/2653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}