Terry Guyer

Punch and Judy, after George Cruickshank, Painting, Oil on Canvas

2017

Can this be comedy cried the clown? If this is red, replied the ring master. The elephant farted, the tiger roared, centre ring faded to black. I enjoy being creative. For me th...

Somehow it is easier to overpopulate a little painting and get away with it that in a big canvas. This little painting is crowded with life. The menagerie is my daughter’s depiction of her world, the animals within it. It is blued together with the depiction of a small crowd of children looking at the precious thing. We can half make out their forms. Still a little undefined, as things are when you are only half grown up. I like to paint the happy in life. Looking for those thoughts or moments that bring me joy and define my life. I paint my children. Not just their visage, but their being. Their play, their imaginative world as well as their real world. In this series I have the kids paint...

I love to peer into boyhood. Like an intrepid anthropologist, I pull back the curtains of imaginative play and look into their world of makeshift slingshots and make believe war. The ferocious bite of his dinosaurs, informed by playtime with a little friend and a pet chicken. I like to paint the happy in life. Looking for those thoughts or moments that bring me joy and define my life. I paint my children. Not just their visage, but their being. Their play, their imaginative world as well as their real world. In this series I have the kids paint...

This is part of a series of work I do in duet with my children’s paintings. My process with painting is to ruminate on life. Childhood is both the present, and the ghosts; I see memories of my own childhood. I want to inhabit their strong imaginations, bursting into our experience. Blurring the line between real and imaginary. This is my little girl and her dragon. Her work is more about texture and form than his. Even though it is his subject, the feminine is throughout. I love being her mum...

The painting sighed lower right. canvas size is 23.5x35.5 inches.

Artist: Lucio Ranucci, Italian (1925 - ) Title: Puppet Show Year: 1971 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed u.l. Size: 24 x 36 in. (60.96 x 91.44 cm) Frame:...

Arthur Smith (American, 1897-1972) Untitled (Circus Performers), 20th century Oil on board 21 x 18 7/8 in. Framed: 26 3/4 x 35 3/4 in. Signed lower right: A Smith Arthur Smith is a...

This spectacular chromolithograph by the English illustrator and painter Charles Green (1842-1909) shows the clown and his performing troupe of talented dogs in a circus tent with a...