…after 3 weeks in France…back to the harsh reality of life. Immediately summoned to Southampton cardiac high dependency unit where my father in law, an RSC actor has had a significant bleed in his brain (a stroke) after a successful triple by pass operation.
We have been told to 'prepare ourselves'.
Life is cruel…and beautiful too…
'Graham's response to landscape is contemplative. Creation becomes a challenge as every mark is considered as the aesthetic process unravels towards sublime resolution. Graham's preoccupations are undoubtedly formal, but his technique relies on more than simply a conscious arrangement of shape and colour. Graham aims to intuitively distil the essence of his visual experience in a much more unlimited way. Landscape provides the ideal motif; unrestricted by figures or buildings, an exploration is permitted which ultimately pervades pure creation.' Sally-Ann Schilling. MA History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Art Historian and former Lecturer Tate Modern, London
