“Sod the wine, I want to suck on the writing. This man White is an instinctive writer, bloody rare to find one who actually pulls it off, as in still gets a meaning across with concision. Sharp arbitrage of speed and risk, closest thing I can think of to Cicero’s ‘motus continuum animi.’

Probably takes a drink or two to connect like that: he literally paints his senses on the page.”


DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland ... Winner: Booker prize; Whitbread prize; Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman prize; James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin)


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18 July 2014

QUINCY JONES EATS ADELAIDE PALETTE

Timothy John, the Adelaide painter, gourmand and Eat The Planet Facebooker, sent this photo of Quincy Jones with The Secret Garden, a painting he personally  commissioned from Tim. It's just as well that many of our American friends seem to appreciate South Australian creatives more than our own countrymen do: some of us would starve even faster without folks like Quincy.  That's Timothy at work in  his studio below, back in the old Rundle Street days, when the East End was the most concentrated community of artists, writers, designers and architects South Australia has ever seen. This thriving creative precinct was destroyed when the 'developers' arrived and rents went through the roof. Now it's a string of boutiques that sell really expensive underpants for women.   Timothy often paints with a red in one hand, brush in the other, and a tenor  sax around his neck. Lauren Bacall is another USA  collector who buys his work. Well done, brother! 


1 comment:

MelBrandle said...

It is sad that natural talents are slowly being taken over and almost eliminated by profits hungry corporations. I am sure all his masterpieces are now all up in storage since the day the rents skyrocketed through the roofs and into the skies. That is why having a strong network of contacts is very important to survive in whichever business that you are pursuing. If one method fails, at least you have a backup support to fall back on.