STEPHEN QUICK
NEWS (SOME MAY SAY BLOG) |
BIG
BARN SLAPTON - STEPHEN QUICK PAINTINGS INSITU - 4th
April 2008 |
A few months
back Caroline Marray got in contact with me for some extremely
large painting that she could put in her newly converted barn
(Big Barn) that she is now using as a holiday home, it really
is an amazing place and makes my 5ft wide canvases look small
!! Anyway for more information on the Big Barn visit this link
- Big
Barn Slapton - And here are a few picture on my paintings
hanging, this is 3 of i think 6 paintings: As always click on
image to enlarge.
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| STEPHEN
QUICK & PETER STACEYS EXHIBITION PHOTOS - 11th
March 2008 |
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| LIMITED
EDITION PRINTS COMING SOON - 6th March
2008 |
After a lot of requests for
prints of my paintings i have started getting some done, these
will all be limited edition prints available in a few sizes
at the moment the first batch as on A4 signed and numbered,
ill either put up a print section on the site or if you are
interested in a print of a certain painting you can request
it........ but at the moment with the updates to the site that
will be a little way off, so if you wanting a print just drop
me a email. Here are a few examples
of what the prints look like, they will come in a poly bag,
card backed, im not sure of the exact weight of the paper but
its about the same as normal photo paper (ill ring the printers
and find out the exact weight!............ but last time i tried
that i was on hold for so long i gave up and curled up in a
corner !) anyway have a look at them im really happy with how
they have come out. (click on image to enlarge)
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| JUXTAPOSITION
THIS WEEKEND - 6th Mar 2008 |
Its this weekend,
all is sorted, wrapped, hangings put on and bubbled covered
paintings filling up my sitting room ready to go. Opening on
Friday at 19:00 and running all day on Saturday, hope to see
lots of people there, ill get some photos of the exhibition
up after its all over, but in the meantime here is the poster.
(click on image to enlarge)
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UPCOMING
EXHIBITIONS- 27th Feb 2008 |
I have not been
very good at keeping this blog up to date, with the re-design
on the web site i don't seem to have much time to get round
to filling you in on what's happening in the wonderful world
of artness with me, so here goes a decent update. Some up coming
shows that are confirmed are on the 7th/8th March at the Mackarness
Hall in Hontion me and a fellow artist are putting on a show
called Juxtaposition, its a short running show
but should be really good, if you in the area the preview night
is the 7th between 19:00 - 21:00 (Free wine and anecdotes),
ill have about 25 pieces in this show so should be good to see
if i finish them all in time. Second show is another one with
a fellow artist (who's name escapes me at the mo) which will
run for a month at the Flavel in Dartmouth
the date for this show is 28th July - 27th Aug so quite a way
off yet but confirmed about 8 - 10 pieces of mine in that one.
And the last show that is going ahead in Launceston,
in not to sure on the details for this one yet but i will have
around 3 painting in it, this starts at the 16th April for about
3 months !!!
Of course there
will be other shows on in the near future but for the minute
they are the ones confined, im especially excited about the
Juxtaposition show as this is one that me and
the other artist have fully arranged ourselves (no agents were
involved) so we will see how it goes but there should be a great
atmosphere, ill get photos and posters up on the site soon.
Ive had a few questions
about the "carry on painting films" and if i have
stopped doing them, no i haven't i have about 5 or 6 that have
been filmed i just need to get around to editing them once they
are i will get them up asap, im also thinking of doing a Q&A
video to answer the most common questions i get, as its quicker
to spill it out of my mouth than write to each person individually.
Anyway that's it for the bit, hope you like how the new design
is coming on it will take awhile to get the whole site done
but im doing my best.................. off to paint !! |
| JUXTAPOSITION
(POP WORLD MEETS THIRD WORLD) 7th/8th March 2008-
10th Feb 2007
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Along with
fellow artist Pate
Stacey i will be putting on an exhibition at the Mackarness
Hall in Honiton, the exhibition is exploring the differences
in contemporary cultures of the east and the west (pop world
meets third world) the opening is the 7th March 2008 at 17:00
where will be having some wine and a good chit chat so if you
are in the area please pop in and see the show, me and Pete
will be there throughout the exhibition to discuss our work,
hope to see you there. Opening
times are: 7th March 19:00 - 21:00, 8th March 9:00 - 17:00 |
| HOO
HOO HOO CHISTMAS- 23rd Oct 2007 |
Its nearly
already here, so just a quick note to all that im now taking
Christmas orders, to avoid having to be painting of Christmas
eve, mind you i did this last year and spent Christmas eve praying
for paint to dry faster. So if there are any paintings you are
interested in on a commissions basis please get your orders
in now. |
| SPLINTERED
STUDIOS GOING THROUGH CHANGES- 18th
Sep 2007 |
You may have
already noticed that certain parts of the web site are changing,
like the new fancy splash page. Over the next few months ill
be changing parts of the web site to make it more user friendly
and easier for me to keep updated, with around 350 pages it
can become abit of a nightmare to keeps things up to date. The
main changes that will be happening are, first im splitting
the paintings into Fine Art (Banana manifesto etc) and Commercial
Art (Film / Music) this should make it easier for people to
look through the site and have more paintings on a single page
instead of having to click through eight or so galleries to
look at the paintings, so hopefully this should make it simpler
to see stuff and also people come to me for mainly, fine art
or commercial paintings so each collector will have there special
pages for what they like. Off the top of my head the other things
that will change are you will be able to see the price and other
info on a painting on the thumbs page instead of going into
the main page of the painting, also other small thing like the
interview page will be going and all press will be added to
the about me page, so i need to think of a idea to replace the
interview page. Anyway hopefully the changes will not disrupt
you viewing .................Thanx |
| EYE
CANDY - 9th Sep 2007 |
A great exhibition
is now on at the Bird House Gallery in Totnes, its entitled
'Eye Candy'. I have a few paintings on show there, a bunch of
new stuff that is not even up on my site yet, so nip along,
it really is an amazing exhibition. Its running until the 17th
September, here are a few picture from the private view. Click
to enlarge.
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| AAF
FLAVEL DARTHMOUTH SHOW- 31st Aug 2007 |
I have a show
now on at the Flavel in Dartmouth, as part of the annual regatta.
The shows runs from 31/8 - 2/9, if you are down there pop in
and have a wee look. The paintings that are on show of mine
are, Banana Bond Tomorrow Never
Knows, Love War III and Banana
Storm Trooper II. Eye Candy show coming soon, will be a
really exciting day show, not sure the start date but if you
in Totnes and fancy coming to the private view let me know.
Flavel pictures, click to enlarge:
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| CARRY
ON PAINTING- 15th Aug 2007 |
My site now
has a page dedicated to the time lapse speed painting, it can
be accessed via the films page or just click
here. |
| UPCOMING
SHOWS- 15th Aug 2007 |
Two upcoming
shows to look out for, first off on the 30th August is the 'Flavel
Show' at the Flavel art center in Dartmouth, ill have 3
paintings in this show properly a couple of Banana Manifesto's
and a Love War. The second will be a great show with me and
a couple of other artist, this show is entitled "Eye
Candy" and is on from the 7th Sept to the 17th Sept
at the Birdwood House in Totnes. The collection i will be showing
is still undecided but it will be a bunch of new stuff, see
you there |
| MAKING
OF VIDEOS- 5th July 2007 |
I've just started
making "making of" videos for some of my painting,
these videos are time lapse videos, so you can see a painting
that took 5 hours painted in 1 min. These videos can be viewed
at my youtube
page, or with the specific painting on my site, i will add
a section to the film page with all of them on at some point
but at the moment ive only done one and am editing one at the
moment, but this is going to be a on going thing as i think
buyers and collectors would like to see their painting being
painted. The first video which is very much a tester can be
viewer here.
(Please leave nice comments on youtube, would be most appreciated) |
| MOJO
MICKYBO UPDATE- 4th July 2007
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Mojo Mickybo
the play that was using some of my art work has now left the
arcola and now on in the west end at Trafalgar Studios. They
are using more of the banana manifesto painting in their program,
and having just received a copy it looks damm good, click on
images to enlarge.
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| THE
CUBE BRISTOL STEPHEN QUICK SOLO SHOW-
4th July 2007 |
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MY
WORK IN PLYMOUTH DIARY- 4th June 2007
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In this months
Plymouth Diary magazine features a two page spread about Artspaces,
with my painting I-Hepurn as one
of the examples of art work, and its a whole page!!! very citing.
Click on the image below to enlarge and read.
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| HONITON
ART TOY SHOP PLACEMENT- 25th May 2007 |
The lovely people
in Honiton Toy Shop are kindly displaying Love
War in their window, here are a couple of photos of the
paintings insitu, for more information on Hontion Toy Shop vist
here.
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FINALIST
IN THE THELMA HULBERT OPEN EXHIBITION !!-
30th April 2007 |
Yeah !! My painting
At At Fox and The Hound was
selected as a finalist in the Thelma
Hulbert open exhibition on Honiton, went to the opening
on Saturday and it looks really cool, must admit it is very
different to anything else in there but that i feel is a good
thing. If you can get down to the gallery go see it, and also
vote it as "Best in Show". (Click on images in enlarge)
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| 2nd
RUMOURS SHOW PHOTOS- 23rd April 2007 |
Second Rumours show, photos
from the exhibition. (Click on image to enlarge)
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| 2nd
RUMOURS SHOW - 9th April 2007 |
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Banana
Manifesto Collection For Rumours Show II |
The
New I-Manifesto Painting |
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The
Full Stephen Quick Collection for Rumours II |
Stephen
Quick With Collection |
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| 2nd
STEPHEN QUICK RUMOURS SHOW - 23rd March
2007 |
Just finalized
doing another show at Rumours in totnes, the show will include
8 paintings. The collection will be 6 Banana Manifesto's
(all new ones including A Clockwork Banana and a new Strormtrooper
Banana) along with two brand new paintings in a series entitled
I-Pod manifesto, its pretty simple really think banana
manifesto with ipods, lol, the two paintings im working on for
this are James Bond (Connery) and Audrey Hepburn both with a
lovely ipod. Not sure on the dates for this show yet but will
post them when i know them, should be a good show, looking forward
to trying out the ipod manifesto paintings and seeing the reaction
to them. |
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OF THE COM AND OF THE CO UK- 20th March
2007 |
Not sure if
this really classes as news, but neither does a picture of a
messy desk!! But i have now registered www.splinteredstudios.co.uk
along with .com, so you can reach the site with both .co.uk
and .com. |
IN
THE KEY OF WATER - 23rd Feb 2007 |
A new film
has just been finished, "In The Key Of Water" is a
film for, to quote "The National Association of Landscape
Architects in Norway is having a meeting in Bergen for theme
day about water. The program will include talks, Water Art,
Bathing in Iceland, Weather Warning- Water for the next 100
years." The films are intended to break up the conference.
This is something that's been arranged by the stupid talented
Emilie
Rowell. The film is a musical, the idea was to create a
sound track out of water sounds, i think its worked pretty well,
i did have to bring in Stumpie
(Alex Sadler) to assist with the editing, which took a amazing
two days to edit a 60 second film. Well see what you think,
click here to view. |
| SKYPE
- NEW WAY TO CONTACT ME- 4th Feb 2007 |

Now you can contact
and chat with Splintered Studios and Stephen Quick via Skype.
Visit the contact page click on the
button and chat with any questions or comments you have. (Also
see me !!! on web cam.) |
| MOJO
MICKYBO - POSTER - 22nd Jan 2007 |
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| FILMS,
FILMS, FILMS !! - 12th Jan 2007 |
Finally after
hours and hours and hours of encoding all the selected films
are up and running and viewable to all. |
| STEPHEN
QUICK'S YOU TUBE- 8th Jan 2007 |

Well i have got
a MySpace so the next step was to get a YouTube account to show
the world my films, i must say i think YouTube is one of the
best sites there is. I am also now going to be streaming my
films from YouTube to Splintered Studios as this will solve
compatibility problems, download times etc. To visit mt YouTube
profile and view films click
here. |
| SKELETON
WOMAN MOST VIEWED- 7th Jan 2007 |
Just browsing
through some of the galleries i belong to on line and have found
out that on both All
Trade Art and APOB,
Skeleton Woman is the most viewed
painting on their galleries. |
| MY,
MYSPACE - 4th Jan 2007 |

I hate it!! what
is the point of it? but after seeing Lucy Birch dedicate her
life to telling people how 'lush' they look in their pictures
i finally succumbed and decided to check it out, and i have
to say its pretty fun, saying that i have found making the myspace
page way more confusing than making this whole web site and
at the moment i have a lack of friends, so if you wanna, how
do they say it 'add me' well something like that, please do
so i can have more than 3 friends. My myspace url is: http://www.myspace.com/stephensplinteredquick |
| HAPPY
NEW YEAR 2007 !!! - 4th
Jan 2007 |
Happy new to
all, hope your xmas was good and you are now, like me doing
vigorous exercise to get rid of the 'Holiday Weight', and Sandy
Claus brought you everything you wanted, my personal fav is
the Angel box set which now has put a stop to any social life
i had until i've got through all 5 seasons, and that now completes
my Joss Whedon collection, Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Serenity,
so im a very happy boy.
As for all you
who received my paintings for xmas i hope they liked them, they
like their new homes, and you were overwhelmed with delight
when you open them, having got through the heavy duty bubble
wrap.
Well hears to another
year, Splintered Studios will be growing over the next year,
the web site will start displaying and selling not just work
me, but will also start to have a selection of other artists
work on here, along with that the Splintered fashion range has
just been started and designs are being made up, expect these
to be available in the next few months.
New years resolution
- To make more films, the painting seemed to take over last
year so this year old Stanley the camera will be getting some
outings. |
| NEW
SERIES OF PAINITNGS - For
The Art Store Gallery Barntaple - 21st Nov 2006 |
The Art
Store Gallery in Barnstaple now has it's second series of
painting by me, Stephen Quick, for sale. New paintings on display
and available to buy are: Han Solo
Banana (Already Sold!!) Kate Moss
- Peak 'a' Boo, Bob Dylan and Scarface
with a painting of Ali still available from previous collection.
Art Store Gallery's
address is: ArtStore 21 Joy Street, Banstable, Devon EX31 1BS. |
| NEW
STUDIO - Stephen Quick's New Studio - 20th
Nov 2006 |
Having just gone
through what im sure is one of the most stressful, sleep enducing
things ever, moving house. I have a brand new, tidy at the moment
studio.
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New Studio At
Work - And Tidy !! |
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| HOHOHO
!!! - Christmas Orders now being taken - 12th
Nov 2006 |
Christmas is
only around the corner! Christmas painting orders are now being
taken, please get your orders in early. When the last post dates
are given out I will add them to the web site. |
| THE
ONLINE GALLERIES - With Art Work by Stephen Quick-
16tOct 2006 |
Two new online
galleries are now featuring my work, A
Picture Of Britain a relatively new online gallery but one
of the best looking i have found, high hope for the growth of
this gallery, and a more established gallery,
Original Art Sales also has a very wide range of my work,
a fantastic galleries with a shopping cart and paypal all set
up. |
THE
ART STORE GALLERY - Collection 1 - 3rd
Oct 2006 |
Me with the art
store gallery collection. - Ali, Kate Moss Nude, Surf, Banana
Bond and Kill Banana Bill.

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| RUMOURS
& GALLERY 22 ENDING- 13th Sept 06 |
Yes sad to
say but my one man show in Rumours
in Totnes ends this Sunday, thanks for all the people who have
been to see it, and all the people who bought paintings and
Annie for arranging it all, hopefully more shows in the future
there. Gallery 22 also is ending the end of september, my banana
paintings are no longer there, so no point going now hehehehe,
no do there is still some good art there. |
THE
ART STORE GALLERY - Art Gallery With Stephen Quick's
Work - 5th Sept 06 |
The Art
Store in Barnsaple is an amazing gallery open six days a
week displaying and selling a huge range of original art, prints
and framing service. My work is now part of their collection
and can been seen in the window now. (Click on image to enlarge)
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The
great looking Art Store - My work in the window |
Detail
of gallery window with Kate Moss, Ali, Frodo, Surfer,
Banana Bond and Kill Bill |
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| FLAVEL
- Exhibition 22nd August to the 26th August -
21st August 2006 |
The affordable
art exhibition in Dartmouth has three of my paintings in, A
Rose Like Any Other 1 and
2, and a new painting called A Kiss Like Any Other.
This exhibition is on at the Flavel
Centre in Dartmouth. |
RUMOURS
- Photos - 20th August 2006 |
The
Rumours collection is now up, so sat in the bar drinking
taking photos hoping no one would, one kick me out for taking
photos of the paintings, two think I'm taking photos of paintings
to rip off the ideas, or three, god help me realize it's me
who did them and start talking about the cultural references
and meaning behind them agggghhh. Here is a selection of the
paintings insitu. (click on image to enlarge)
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| RUMOURS
- COLLECTION |
Rumours
art gallery and bar in Totnes will be having a one man show
of Stephen Quick's, with 17 original paintings on display and
for sale. The collection consists of the Banana Manifesto, Butterflies
and Hearts and a selection of pop art and abstract paintings.
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The
Rumours Collection |
Stephen
Quick and the collection |
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| BNI
- CORPORATE FILM |
Having just
had to get up at 4:00 in the sodding morning, to go along to
a business meeting, I had to film a promo for the company. The
film is to give potential member an idea of what to expect at
these meetings; what I found out I don't remember as I had to
wake soooo early. Film should be good though. |
| MESSY
STUDIO - 24th
June 2006 |
Thought i would
post a picture of my studio, and man what a state it is in,
i can paint pretty picture but i can keep a pretty desk!!
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Organized Chaos |
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| GALLERY
22 - EXHIBITION -
22nd June 2006 |
Planet of the
Banana Apes and Butch Cassidy Banana are now on exhibition in
Gallery 22. |
GALLERY
22 - EXHIBITION -
14th June 2006 |
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GALLERY
22 - EXHIBITION -
19th March 2006 |
James
Banana Bond will be
appearing at Gallery 22 in Ashburton, 22 North Street, the exhibition
has already started, James will be there from 20th March 2006. |