UNDER SCRUTINY - PRIVATE VIEW - Chris Blunkell and Max Kimber
Fri 12 Apr
|The Hot Tin
We are proud to present work by Chris Blunkell and Max Kimber and their new show - Under Scrutiny - Please join us at the private view for a new celebratory cocktail on 12th April from 6.30pm. Our well stocked licensed bar will be open for your pleasure until 11pm.
Time & Location
12 Apr 2019, 18:30 – 23:00
The Hot Tin, St. Saviour's Church, Whitstable Road, Faversham ME13 8BD, UK
About The Event
Chris Blunkell
California is a paradox – simultaneously familiar and exotic, both for those who know it well and those who have never been there. A lower middle class boy from east Kent, I didn’t leave British shores until I was 16. Nonetheless, TV and films brought Los Angeles into my life on a daily basis without my ever having to seek it out or pay particular attention – Columbo, The Monkees, The Rockford Files.
I first visited California in the late 1980s, not long after my sister Jane had relocated to Laurel Canyon. Then, as now, I found LA to be contradictory and fascinating – fast, vulgar, bewildering and beautiful. For a painter, the interaction of the natural and built environments, and the pin-sharp light that falls upon it, is a gift. Houses in these places can seem like miracles of both engineering and imagination – built elegantly in…