Kanno Suga was a Japanese journalist, poet, socialist and feminist, who was imprisoned and then executed for plotting to kill the Emperor of Japan in 1911.
Infinite (translated by Tim Hodgkinson) around my small being infinite time and infinite sky why then this struggle?
front cover:
Vladimir Mayakovsky and Skotik
Oil on canvas
100 × 90 cm
above: Kanno Suga
Oil on canvas
100 × 75 cm
back cover: Lili Boulanger
Oil on canvas
90 × 75 cm
requests the pleasure of your company at the PRIVATE
at 2 Park Walk, London SW10 0AD Thursday 12th March 6 – 8pm
Exhibition dates: 11th - 27th March 2026
Paintings are for sale on receipt of the catalogue
The entire exhibition can be viewed online at www.cricketfineart.co.uk
You will miss me and that is good
You will miss me and that is good II
Curly and Adam
Drypoint, carborundum and gouache
40 × 42.3 cm
I know our placing of the pictures may seem odd but they are how I see Vladimir’s party panning out. Who might enjoy conversing with whom … for example, I know that Stella Johnson and Jonathan Swift would have a great time with Jeremy, and I would hope to be in on the conversation Belinda is having with Bach. Iris Murdoch and E M Forster; slow to get going but hard to stop once they do. The Barrafina diners always sit together and Edna O’Brien of course can’t wait for Adam to wake up and Adam is at the end partly because he has fallen asleep and partly because we can fit the acknowledgements under him. I think Miles Davis can only go in with beautiful Anna Magnani, though I don’t think he wrote film music for any of her films, he wrote for Ascenseur Pour L’Échafaud around that time. I know they’ll really hit it off. Fernando and Smokey are both poets. Colette and Henry Cooper! Anyone would be thrilled to have them lead the party in! Stanley Kubrick and Loretta Lynn are made for each other. So it goes on, and we can only hope with these placements that it will be a great night for Vladimir.
Kate Boxer 2026
Printing by Colin Gale at Artichoke Print Workshop, London Paint supplied by Francesca Wezel, Francesca’s Paints, London
Photography © Douglas Atfield
Special thanks to Charlie Boxer
