Wednesday 16 August 2017

Pintar Rapido

Creating the artwork on site 
Exhibition Space - Chelsea Old Town Hall
Pintar Rapido is an outdoor painting competition and exhibition which involves hundreds of artists creating an artwork in a day and then exhibiting them together in Chelsea Old Town Hall.  My drawing is of Grenfell tower, approximately a month after it was partially destroyed by fire.  I intended to contrast the blackened building against the luscious trees in front of it, though I feel it may not be obvious that the tower is Grenfell as it doesn't look very damaged in my drawing.  Any proceeds made off the sale of the image would have been donated to one of the charities set up following the fire as it would be wrong to monetise the tragedy.