Painting with Light, Quantel Paintbox

Painting With Light was a series of programmes shown on UK TV on BBC2 in 1987. It features six artists as they explore the Quantel DPB-7001 Digital Paint Box. Production was a collaboration between the BBC and Griffin Productions. Some of the episodes were edited and compiled and released onto Laserdisc for the North American market. This video is a restoration of that Laserdisc version. It features four of the original programs in a compiled and edited feature. This features David Hockney, Larry Rivers, Howard Hodgkin and Jennifer Bartlett.

0:00 – Introduction 1:34 – Quantel Paintbox 2:13 – David Hockney 20:34 – Drawing Portraits From Memory 27:54 – Experiments With Wider Perspectives 44:55 – Larry Rivers 1:05:17 – Howard Hodgkin 1:08:17 – Ideas For Costumes 1:09:40 – A Stage Within A Stage 1:16:43 – Jennifer Bartlett 1:27:53 – Credits