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  Ghislaine Howard's 365 at IWMNGhislaine Howard is an Eccles-born artist whose "365" exhibition debuts at the Imperial War Museum North this week.
Every day since October 2006 Ghislaine took an news image from the Guardian newspaper that dropped through her front door, painting a response to what she saw on an 8 x 6 wooden slate. Over the next two-and-a-half years she had produced the 365 images, which are now showing at the museum until 21st June. Ghislaine explains the thinking behind the exhibition: “This is how most people experience the world, through their daily newspaper. "I never set out to make paintings of war, but that just seemed to be most noticeable thing. "During the course of making these pictures I began to notice what we're not told in these news images, about how little time we actually give to these images; they're ephemeral and we quickly turn the page.” Ghislaine was born in Eccles and her mother still lives in Ellesmere Park, while Ghislaine now has her own gallery in Glossop. She studied under the Salford artist Harold Riley – friend to LS Lowry – who taught her about drawing, and the emotional connection necessary to be an artist. This 365 exhibition is her “vigil”, a way a trying to make sense of the images of war and brutality which cover the daily papers day after day. From Saddam Hussein's last day to orphans in Haiti, dead Palestian babies and the aftermath of a suicide bomb, the images are striking, tenderly painted and not a little moving. They deliberately do not follow a timeline so that the viewer does not feel that the paintings constitute some sort of diary. It is up to each individual to make their mind up about the pictures in front of them. The exhibition runs until 21st June, and like everything else in the Imperial War Museum North is available for the bargain price of, well, free.
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