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Another day, another exhibition. The Leeds Open, at the Leeds Art Gallery on the Headrow. The youngest artist was born (according to the caption) in 2008. I can only wish that many of the otherwise-assumed-to-be-adults could claim the innocence of […]
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19 August, Birmingham. I’ve come to do the rounds of some of the art exhibitions, in particular Steve McCurry’s photographs. These are stunning/amazing/worrying/frightening etc depending on the subject and your/my reading of them. What interests me these days in exhibitions […]
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The New Art Gallery, Walsall, was my next venue. If you haven’t been there, go. A brilliant, focused, gallery. I found it a few years ago (it wasn’t lost), along with Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Bilston Craft Gallery. In my […]
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‘I like your work’. This is music to my ears, the unsolicited appreciation of effort. A chance meeting with a near neighbour (how often do you see your neighbours? I lived in an apartment in London for 2 years and […]
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Cornelia Parker Perpetual Canon I went to Gateshead today, walked to the now-being-demolished World Famous Car Park in Gateshead, then across the Big Green Bridge into Newcastle, had a coffee and sandwich and made my way to the Baltic. Top […]
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Yesterday, Saturday, I went to the ‘Write Me a Picture Workshop’ at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery in Leeds Uni. This session, lead by Suzannah Evans, was attended by ten artists and/or writers, mixed age group and experience. Suzie […]
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Thought for today: The value of white space. I’ve been working in charcoal on paper recently, revisiting some ideas from way back. I like the richness of tone that comes from charcoal. Mixing different types of stick, rubbing back and […]
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Exhibition success! Two entries in the Harrogate Mercer Art Gallery Open Exhibition have been accepted. http://tiny.cc/4j1g6 A charcoal drawing (how retro) Out of the Forest and Shadow, a small painting acrylic on canvas. Is acrylic as souless to you as […]