The Art of Jim Kettle

There's a sort of group ness to what you call the Kettle's Yard artists that's recognizable and also did he whether any people he lit on who just didn't work. I think there maybe has to be for him some sort of emotional connection as well as an aesthetic connection. He talks about talking to paintings as if they were the artists themselves um we sort of roll our eyes at King Charles III talking to his garden or talking to trees or flowers but I think Jim was very much in that vein. When he lends a load of bendicles and the tape he says he misses them he sort of turns around over his shoulder as if to address a canvas and he's disappointed when it