As well as Paul Warren’s series of prints entitled The Mill being on display at the Museum of Making in Derby, you can also get to see the work of one of Paul’s contemporarys in the same gallery, John Fineran.
John was Paul Warren’s art teacher at the Joseph Wright Secondary Art School, Gower Street, Derby, in the late 1950’s, a time when Bill Haley and the Comets were ‘rockin’ around the clock and Elvis Presley was dwelling at the Heartbreak Hotel. Paul says:
“As far as I remember I got on quite well with him. I do remember meeting him some time after I’d left the school and we eventually said hello but he did say that ‘one has to be a little circumspect when approached by ex-pupils’ but he needn’t have worried about me. He told me of an exhibition of his paintings being prepared at a gallery at Derby Cathedral. he’d called the exhibition ‘Happenstance’…I did go and the painting in the Museum of Making could well have been part of that exhibition…It had something familiar about it that clicked in the back of my mind and when I saw his name in the lower left corner my thoughts were confirmed though I may have seen the painting at another exhibition at the Derby Museum’
The Mill: 8 Giclee prints by Paul Warren
A lively series of 8 figurative prints exploring mill life, industry and community through humour, character and conversation. Full of narrative detail and social energy, The Mill series combines historical reference with a bold contemporary style.
The eight Gclee prints are all of similar dimensions: Landscape view, H 400mm x W 500mm and the Portrait view, H 500mm x W 400mm.
The prints are for sale as seen and priced at £70 each – framed, glazed, mounted print (black frame, 20mm width x15mm depth) all with ‘neutral’ mount.
