NEWS

OUR NEWS PAGE IS NOW ON SUMMER BREAK UNTIL THE END OF SEPTEMBER

MAY TO SEPTEMBER 2021
One exhibition that has been on hold since the pandemic began is the Natures Brilliant Colour Show at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This is the long awaited exposition on the nature of Structural Colour in the natural world. For details of the show and film please go to the botanic site news page.

MAY 8th 2021
The latest Cover image for the website is from the archive.

APRIL 11th 2021
As the recent winter gives way to the dawn of a glorious springtime, I continue as a painter who has painted through the darkness and is looking forward to the new. So much has been delayed and so much has been learnt and understood because of it - the greater ability to be psychologically flexible and the practice of patience at a time when we wanted to race ahead. Much more to come, so watch this page.

EARLY WORK FROM 1973
My early art college work shows initial experimentation into the visionary imagination, inspired by the natural world. Here’s a strange one from a series of eyes from bird-life. As with all my early works, this too has recently been plagiarised by a contemporary Instagram artist in their 30s. As visionary work begins to become more and more fashionable, this is perhaps inevitable. I painted this work of when I was 17 years old, and on Foundation Course at Harrow School of Art (Westminster University)

The Head of the Headless Chicken 1973
Oil on Board 50 x40 ins
Coral G Guest
From an unlabelled preserved specimen discovered in the science department of Harrow Technical College, 1972

MARCH 8th 2021
NEW WORKSHOPS
The next series of two lockdown online workshops are on their way. The first is named The Visionaries, which deals with the work of William Blake, Ken Kiff, and Philip Guston, as well as other unique visionary artists of our time. The first workshop is a primer for the second, entitled The Visionary Approach, in which we will discuss the means to create visionary works and where and how in the human system they are enabled. The students have been carefully selected by potential and without prejudice towards age, race, creed or gender. These workshops are non-profit making and where mentoring is given free of charge to those committed artists who are amongst the gifted.

FEBRUARY 8th 2021
New Works
New works will continue to be available on a private page. This has been successful in putting an end to the ongoing plagiarism of new art works and language on this site. This private approach has proven to work very well over the past year, preventing the poaching of new ideas and blocking catalogue writers from taking information and applying it to other artists work. If you would like to view new work, please apply via the Contact page

NOVEMBER 9th 2020

WHO DOES THE DOING?
Voluntary Workshops on the Nature of the Self in Painting.
The current voluntary series of online workshops entitled Who Does the Doing? - A Preliminary Discourse on Visionary Painting are now underway. We now also have a new (full) waiting list that will be honored with additional workshops, should the lockdown be extended. Thank you to all who have applied.

NOVEMBER 1st 2020
Due to the forthcoming lockdown, all those who have written requesting online lessons on techniques and the process of meditative intent in the work, will receive these lessons gratis, as part of my voluntary work. Booking and teaching will commence from November 5th -7th, for those already on the waiting list.

AUGUST 2020
The ARCHIVE
The archive and online image catalogue of my body of work is gradually accumulating. This includes artworks from 1974 of the landscape drawings and visionary paintings on gravity and spacetime. The flower paintings and botanical drawings from the early 80s onwards are also represented.

If you are reading this and happened to acquire an artwork directly from me in the 1970s or early 1980s and would like this to be included, you are welcome to get in touch via the contact page. I will answer all inquiries myself.

Many of you will know that I sold my first artwork at the age of 14, and have painted and drawn continually and quietly with service to the work rather than the need for self publicity. In this way I differ from the vast number of contemporary artists, and exist beyond the radar of the avant-garde. My ongoing work has attracted a growing group of selective collectors and lovers of my work since the 1970s. This work is demanding and asks you to think deeply, not for the sake of my personal glamour, but for success of a new and different kind - one that is focused upon the all-embracing power and delight of the soul.

JULY 2020
Train Journeys with an Artwork
As an art student in the 1970s, when too impoverished to afford any mode of transport other than the train, bus or bicycle, I delivered my artworks by public transport. I have since continued these methods of transporting smaller artworks to save spending other resources, namely carbon. I tend to travel on early morning trains to avoid taking-up commuter space during busier travelling hours. Last year, on the long silent journey on a Thameslink train into London, I attempted to calculate how many of my smaller artworks have been delivered in this way. It is more than 500.

I ceased air travel in 2009, following a visit to Iceland, where I encountered vast glacial reduction since observing the landscape during a previous visit in 2007. At this juncture, I could no longer justify air travel. When required, I freight my artworks in collaboration with others, and I travel with my work in spirit but not in person. In case you are wondering, I am certainly not a member of any political or environmental pressure group. I work simply with resources, and act with as much common sense as I am able.

When I began the process of ceasing air travel, the adjustment was very difficult indeed. I was advised by art dealers against taking this approach, and I was also advised that my career would consequently falter if I did - it has not. No doubt, many artists who work with landscape and botanic subjects may be planning to resume regular air travel after the pandemic. If you are one of those artists, please quietly consider what is the most responsible choice for our natural world, and act accordingly.

JUNE 2020
Support for new Artists:
Before, During and After the Pandemic
The yearly degree shows of Fine Art degree students will now take place online. I urge collectors to take a look at the works on show at art colleges around the country.. Committed new artists will always need sponsorship, and this may be both rewarding and productive, as many genuinely talented young painters have extraordinary potential. Over the years, I have supported new artists by mentoring and gifting study works to those I consider to be exceptional. There is a long held tradition of this kind of support for new painters, which has been ongoing for generations. Sponsorship enables new artists to develop peacefully. Many gifted painters are quiet in their approach and benefit from being free from financial pressures in the early days of their career, before their work path is fully formed.

All support naturally needs to be carefully considered, and no one can tell a collector if an artist will be successful or not, no one can tell you if an artist is worth the risk, and there are no guarantees. However, the tradition of patronage is one that has been remarkably successful and continues quietly to this day.

https://www.artrabbit.com/events/uk-degree-shows-2020

FEBRUARY 2020
New Works on Real Gesso
Real gesso is an ancient mixture of chalk dust and glue. This is produced over a double boiler and applied to a surface as a warm emulsified substance...
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OCTOBER 2019
NEW Strata Series
Original
Screen Prints SERIES SOLD OUT
Images have been liberated from the Light into Dark Sketch Book to become original screen prints with text.
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SEPTEMBER 2019
Drawn in Wales:The Radial Series
The drawing entitled Where the Bear Once Roamed, South Wales, began in 2007 and received concluding marks in autumn 2019.
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DECEMBER 2018
The Light into Dark sketch book
Returns home

The Light into Dark Icelandic Sketch Book returns home after travelling with the SKETCH OPEN DRAWING PRIZE
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THE SIBLING WEBSITE
To view Coral G Guest’s botanic work please go to the sibling website at www.coralguestbotanic.com