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Cleveland Way, Whitby
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Painting the Highlands
A short trip round some Scottish favourites, with time for some sketching.
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A Day Out at Sculpture Lounge
My good friend Stephen and I took advantage of the chance to use the studios of David Mayne and Mick Kirby Geddes, to have a play making some sculptures. As usual a great couple of days with some interesting people. Here are the results:
Stephen’s:
Mine:
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Metal Animals Invade Bristol
An enjoyable week down at Westonbirt Woodworks that caused a mix of amusement, admiration and bemusement. I decided to use a mix of existing bits and newly made ones to create a sculpture.
As it developed Paul Hayden likened it to Picasso’s Les Demoiselles D’Avignon, and my brother found a picture of a chair sculpture by the same, that had a resemblance. I decided that this one would be called Les Chaises not least because it is several things at once.
It is actually hard to get angles to work in this way and yet make a stable structure. Where there were imperfections in the wood I drew attention to them. There was a big fault at one side of the seat, so we cut a chunk out, making two different seat shapes in one. Correspondingly there are two different seat carving patterns.
Thanks also to Stephen for his part in my chair adventures and to all those who have encouraged me.
In the beginning there was landscape, then came life, then life developed rituals (Dogs going round in circles before lying down, Elephants visiting the remains of dead relatives), then creatures made things and altered the landscape (nests, burrows, display sites), then humans started taking these things a lot further.
We have been altering the landscape and making art since pre-history. The sculpture park is a piece of altered landscape, that is a display site and a piece of show-off theatre, that is now also a place to see works of art.
I am just about to start giving Art and Landscape tours of the Park again. Here is the old document for the tour. A new one is on its way.
https://valleycreations.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/YSP-Talk.pdf
Thanks to Ruth, a couple of days away before an operation. For me a chance to paint and a bonus swim.
A short trip to Ambleside Manor Vegetarian guest house. Some sketchesfor me, walks up big hills for Ruth and some lovely meals at Zeffirellis.
