Red Lion Gallery

paintings and drawings by
Guy Ottewell

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Burmese badminton player
Burmese badminton player
This and most of the following were lino-cut prints, made by gouging into a piece of linoleum, then rolling ink over the remaining surface, and pressing paper on to receive the print—so everything is done in reverse. I no longer have the materials for these techniques.

Rails at n ight
Rails at night

Drawn in some English station.

West Indian fast bowler
West Indian fast bowler
Not a lino-cut—drawn quickly with a thick marker. If you are from a non-cricket-playing country you may barely understand this pose—it may look like some kind of dance. A bowler, unlike a baseball pitcher, is not allowed to bend his arm at the elbow.Cricket

Roof
Roof
"Levitated" view of a house in Greenville, South Carolina. I'm painting the gutter. Find the girl, cat, and boy.

Shoe
Shoe
A scraperboard drawing, made by laying india ink onto a sort of white china clay surface and scraping it off with pointed tools. Done at about age fourteen in a boarding school where we had to wear and polish such shoes.

Collarbone
Collarbone

Checkmate
Checkmate chess

Writing
Writing

Motorbike
Motorbike
A Sixties scene in Los Angeles.

Lampshade
Lampshade

Mr. Lui Tsun-Yuen playing the p'ip'a
Mr. Lui Tsun-Yuen playing the p'ip'a
In Los Angeles, probably at one of the lunchtime concerts in the Department of Ethnomusicology.
You can tell this is a print from a block because I got the a's the wrong way around.

Stonehenge lino-cut
Stonehenge—from a drawing made back at the time when you could just walk up to it, without fences, fees, crowds, and security. (See the painting on another page.)