Sir Peter Blake is No Dead Shark – he keeps on moving forward.

Penny Howard from Beyond the Yalla Dog shares her experience of seeing Sir Peter Blake in the flesh, as an Artist in Conversation at The Royal Academy.

It is always a privilege to see an icon in the flesh and I knew that Sir Peter Blake now needed a stick to get around these days – but had no doubt that he was still keen to keep surging forward with new ideas and creative ways of working.

He announced when he was 75 years old that he had gone into “Conceptual Retirement” – but by that he means retiring from the Art Game – not that he intends to stop working! I like it! 

What he has done – he claims – is to retire from the Art World of Avarice and Jealousy!

His reasoning is that Artists when they go into their “late” period, tend to go “barmy“, quoting Picasso’s increased erotism and De Chirico’sflirtation with knights on horseback and he feels that post 75 it is time for his “late” period to flourish.

He is currently working nearly every day, including, since 2017 inspiring a group of students from the University of the West of England in Bristol with a project to show a primrose, now sadly deceased as can be seen, in as many innovative ways as they can. They are working on computers to develop 3D images – using push-out paper, 3D printers, coloured tiles, silk-screen prints and digital embroidery.

To read the full blog, visit: https://www.beyondtheyalladog.com/2019/04/sir-peter-blake-is-no-dead-shark-he-keeps-on-moving-forward/

Penny Howard suggests and arranges unusual visitor activities in Florence & London.

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