{"id":1338,"date":"2009-01-30T23:19:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T06:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/01\/john-mcclean-poussin-gallery\/"},"modified":"2009-01-30T23:19:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T06:19:16","slug":"john-mcclean-poussin-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/30\/john-mcclean-poussin-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"John McClean @ Poussin Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/the-magazine\/arts\/3299901\/january-roundup.thtml\">from The Spectator UK<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"article-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article_images\/articledir_6599\/3299901\/1_listing.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 13px\/normal Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; line-height: 130%\">The abstract painter John McLean celebrates his 70th birthday this year, and the enterprising Poussin Gallery (Block K, 13 Bell Yard Mews, 175 Bermondsey Street, SE1) has mounted a show of his recent prints in recognition (until 14 February).<\/p>\n<p>The abstract painter John McLean celebrates his 70th birthday this year, and the enterprising Poussin Gallery (Block K, 13 Bell Yard Mews, 175 Bermondsey Street, SE1) has mounted a show of his recent prints in recognition (until 14 February). McLean is an inventive printmaker and when paired with a master craftsman, as he is here \u2014 work produced at the Cambridge studio of Kip Gresham \u2014 the results are first rate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poussin-gallery.com\/works\/screen\/1172677857_im544.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"239\" width=\"214\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/>McLean\u2019s introduction to the little catalogue accompanying the show is a fascinating and lucid account of his techniques, which range from screenprinted monoprints to carborundum etchings via drypoints and woodcuts. They come in different sizes and prices (from about \u00a3400 to \u00a33,000), vibrant images dancing with a variety of emotions, most of them uplifting. Taking an apparently simple approach to the relationship of roughly geometric shapes, McLean stacks and disperses his wedges and blocks of vivid colour in wonderfully subtle and audacious ways. A delight, but check opening times \u2014 Wednesday to Saturday, afternoons only \u2014 to avoid disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>[ \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/the-magazine\/arts\/3299901\/january-roundup.thtml\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Spectator<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Spectator UK The abstract painter John McLean celebrates his 70th birthday this year, and the enterprising Poussin Gallery (Block K, 13 Bell Yard Mews, 175 Bermondsey Street, SE1) has mounted a show of his recent prints in recognition (until 14 February). The abstract painter John McLean celebrates his 70th birthday this year, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}