the pleasure, passion,power and panache of painting

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a very warm welcome to the first dedicated
UK issue of painters Tubes magazine, first
a few words from our Editor, Denis Taylor.
photograph: Denis Taylor. Artist and Editor of Tubes.
Background “stepping stones” from second nature series ©Tubes 2017.of work by
“...2017 was a wonderful year for painting in general. Tubes have been privileged to bring to the
attention of our readers some excellent artists, both well known and some not so well known.
In the coming year Tubes will interview more artists and source Art from all around the UK. To
help with this undertaking the magazine welcomes two new artist-contributors, Laurence Causse-
Parsley, who will be covering the South of England and Dave Traves who will bring to our readers
articles on artists from his travels. Both are accomplished artists in their own right. And both
artists-contributors will be appearing in the forth coming issues, with a full introduction our website
www.painterstubes.com In this all new UK edition Tubes also present exclusive interviews
with four painters, who represent the pleasure, the passion, the power and the panache of painting
in their own very individual styles...
...this year, I was honoured to open a special exhibition (The Ten of Us) featuring the ex-pupils of
the Manchester High School of Art (an Art School for children from eleven years old, where I also
enrolled as a student, in 1962).
The exhibition was mounted at the Saddleworth Museum and Art Gallery (2oth January).
...not only was it an honour for me to open the show, but it was an opportunity to talk about the
Art School, and about children and Art education in general. A discussion, I believe, needs reenvigorating.
To that end the ‘talk’ I gave has been reproduced (in this edition) in full.
The Tubes team hope you enjoy this first edition for 2018.”