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The years are passing more quickly now, and as they do my interest in life and how it is lived facinates me more and more. That is why I make art.

  • Cornelia Parker at the Usher Gallery.

    I got a chance to go through to the Usher Gallery this week and found this lovely installation by Cornelia Parker, it is well worth a visit if you get the chance. Like much of her work it speaks to the one inside you that words dont easily reach or arouse.

    In the room as the viewer circles the piece air currrents and convection from heating cause the stones to move, yet they never seem to touch, even the smaller stones which have the greatest movment seem to avoid other stones close by. I like the sense of perspective by size of stone, I like the inclination I cant explain that these factors are simple pleasing to me.

    There is no deep meaning for me in this just a powerful piece of work that engaged me and reflected in some small way a little about life.

  • Drawing Day:

    Sometimes things work out just right and there is nothing that has to be done for deadlines or other commitments and I have the day free for drawing. Today is one of those days, nice. Have been working on some fairly detailed pen and ink sketches of wildlife just lately and so think I am going to take some large sheets of paper and a drawing board out with me and get some rough sketches of cattle.

    A friend gave me a set of Architects pens a couple of years ago and I have always intended getting around to using them, I like drawing animals so I started with some local wildlife. The images I work from are simply obtained on the internet.

    Will post some of the “plein aire” sketches made of cattle this evening.

  • The Alternative Village Fete

    I visited the Alternative Village Fete at Tattershall Castle today, a contemporary art event which was well worth the visit. There is a new piece by Tod Hanson which was commissioned for the event, I don’t know how long it will be there but it is an excellent piece of work. Have no photos of the piece but the image below is an earlier work by Hanson which I have always liked.

    This was my first visit to Tattershall castle and I live in Lincolnshire, I will be going back. Like many contemporary arts events some of the events are exciting and inspirational, but others leave me wondering why the artist’s bothered, but then the value in art is purely subjective on the intellectual and connectivity levels and so what is one man’s meat is another man’s poison.

    There are probably quite a few who view my own art in a negative light!

  • Le Recolte

    Have got the under-painting finished today, on “The Recollte” which was nice it lets me work on a couple of other canvas’s about harvests and rural work.