Friday Shed Art - Kit Allsopp

I did my first shed painting as a one-off for a laugh and frankly I became pretty obsessed. I tried to move away but I was hooked and kept coming back to them. The shed theme came from a fascination with those simple architectural forms which you can find all over the world — orthogonal box/pitched roof. It’s a fantastic archetype. House, barn, beach hut, railway shed: you name it, it’s a shed.

I did build quite a few shed-like buildings over the years and got very comfortable with the form and its seemingly endless possibilities. Start with the shed and let’s see what we can do with it.

Read more about Kit, painter and emeritus professor of architecture at South Bank University and his shed paintings at bdonline.

Saturday Shed Art: Michelle Basic Hendry

Here is the lovely Cooper’s Shed, 8×10, acrylic on canvas © Michelle Basic Hendry, an artist, writer, and graphic designer.

"Cooper’s Shed is the first in a short series of paintings I am doing on the small, nearly ghost town, of Cooper’s Falls. I introduced Cooper’s Falls and the grandson of it’s founder Mr. Frank Cooper to you in August. This is a shed that sits behind the old Community Hall across from Mr. Cooper’s childhood home and the old store. The building is nearly absorbed by the forest behind it, but still stands strong - much like the town it resides in."

Lots more lovely pictures and details at Michelle's site.

Friday Shed Art - Sarah Lynch

It's time for a new regular Friday feature and it's going to be the cannily-titled Friday Shed Art after the fine response we received to last week's oil painting (for previous posts on art and shedworking, click here). We're starting with Sarah Lynch whose blog is used to display her daily sketches, watercolours or oils (she very modestly says that sometimes they aren't very good but I think they're great). All are quite small and most are for sale via the blog or her Etsy site and Imagekind site. Above is Shed with Hollyhocks and for a selection of her work focusing on sheds click here.