George Shaw exhibition open in Newcastle

Art lovers staying in Newcastle hostels may like to check out a new George Shaw exhibition that has opened in the city.

Payne's Grey opened in the BALTIC's Level 2 gallery on February 25th and it will run until June 12th.

The exhibition coincides with the artist's The Sly and Unseen Day, which opened on 18 February 2011 and ends on 15 May 2011.

The Sly and Unseen Day is a major exhibition of the artist's work, bringing together forty paintings from 1996 to the present day.

Payne's Grey reveals a strand of Shaw's work that has never been seen before. It is a collection of 14 watercolours named after the shade of their creation.

Speaking about this collection, Shaw said: "Once I started painting skies in Payne's Grey and following Constable's dictum that the sky was like the tuning fork for the tone of the painting, I began to simply allow the whole world to be sky coloured.

"And like the worst fears of Chicken Licken the sky did fall in - and the painted world became Payne's Grey."
 

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