Our second album of the Cub trip includes many more images of art, artists, the art school, murals and studios. Tropical climate lends itself to bright colours everywhere. We spent a little while in Cienfuegos Central Plaza, with its restored pre-Revolution buildings, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The theatre is quite spectacular and we learnt that performances take place there regularly. There seems to be…
Shortly after my last post I got the flu AGAIN! What a waste of time that is. But now, half way into January, I'm finally feeling more energetic and have been spending some time in my studio again. The 'Raiders' were scheduled to be here last Friday but I postponed that to this week, partly to really recover but also to allow enough time…
It's been a month since I last wrote a blog. The day after TriCity Potters' November meeting Alan and I left for Cuba. We joined a ten-day Art Tour sponsored by UBC's Museum of Anthropology which took us to Havana, and rural towns to get a feel for the country and to see museums, the Art School and to meet artists who mainly work in the Afro-Cuban tradition.…
Many years ago I picked up this invitation to a show of carved wooden Bird Sculptures by Guy Taplin from a Salisbury gallery, Courcoux & Courcoux. It has been pinned up in my studio next to where I paint my jugbirds ever since. The simple shape and bold colours have been an inspiration. I've always been impressed by the fact that public and private galleries…
One of the things I really wanted to do during my brief holiday in England was to get to the Tower of London to see this year's installation of poppies there. They will commemorate one hundred years since the beginning of the First World War, with the last poppy being placed with over 888,000 others on November 11th 2014, Armistice Day. Each poppy represents a fallen…