Thoughts – shows and paintings 20.9.20

Brue Mclene – What are your thoughts on Creativity as a healing process? If you look at something fabulous it makes you feel better. If you look at something terrible it can make you feel crap. Perhaps not physically but definitely emotionally. Hospitals can evoke awe and lift spirits by having more beautiful and energetic…

People pirates and belief.

After reading a frends FB post this morning I started to juggle some thoughts. She says that it is time for men to accept men, and include those who want to be other than a manly man eg a man in a dress with a full beard is still labelled” man”. She goes on to…

Andy Wahol -Tate Modern July 2020

We walked from just outside the congestion zone. A Massive map reading fight on the best placed to be dropped had taken place swiftly followed by ejection. The little black car had bobbed along the crowed London roads two teens in the back – the third had escaped and was in Turkey. Finally, as we…

Picnic In The Park.

Sunday 19th July 2020 In 1932, Picasso wrote: “When I see Manet’s Lunch on the Grass I tell myself there is pain ahead”. I took Isabella and Patrick to the RA and we cruised around the Piccaso on paper exhibition. Masked and gelled it still enthralled us and then we took our lunch and ate…

Late June 2020 – Lockdown London is about to lift.

I’ve been walking, looking and recording. The deserted London streets have remind me of my favourite childhood films. John Huston westerns with spooky deserted towns complete with tumble weed rolling though the main streets. Knightsbridge in London has become reminiscent of 5th Avenue, New York at 5am as depicted in the opening screens of the…

Painters and politics.

Pablo Picasso, Mark Bradford, Vincent Van Gogh, Edwardo Manet and Don. Each painter responded to a ”crisis” situation and produced a painting to reflect their feelings about their chosen subject. Some times their subject matter is historical some times it is current some times it is political, but it is always personal, works as defined…