Barcelona

 There is always so much to absorb in Barcelona.  I have only ever been without my kids before and this time, with them, I had a much different experience.  Not always a smooth one either.......
Their agenda clashes with my hunger for any galleries or exhibitions.  How can it be that I have produced two people who 'can't be bothered' with a contemporary art gallery housing no less than five crisp, edgy shows of zeitgeist and aesthetic splendour.  We found a common ground outside, however. The skateboarders.  A constant pulse of moving wheels, tricks and slamming boards.  The kids watched in wonder at these hero-acrobats while my own eyes wandered around the marks left by an obsessive, repetitive movement.

Threshold

Work in progress responding to gateways saying stuff like:


                                                                     No Junk Mail
No Parking


                                       Beware DOGS

No entry
                                                                     private
                               DO NOT ENTER



Leave no leaflets                                 WELCOME


                                                                     no entry
Please close the gate



(thought if I made a little note on here it might force me to get on with the images...)

archeology of a mark

What is contained in a mark.  Unintentional, intentional, expression, damage, rhythm, pattern or even an essence or trace of the maker of the mark.

time

There are white blobs of paint on all these trees so that  with a change in the viewer's position, alternative lines and combinations of marks are revealed to create a new view.

  Visitor's feedback at Barbara Hepworth's studio in St Ives.

Jerwood Drawing Prize

13 Feb 2014 - 09 Mar 2014

Image: Emma Vidal, Anthropology I, 2013 (Charcoal on paper)

Been to see this today.   TWO GALLERIES FULL OF DRAWING!!!!!  

Plymouth Arts Centre 13 February –  9 March

Plymouth College of Art 10 February - 8 March