Pages

Friday, November 5, 2010

cholamondal sketch book.....artist village south of chennai....india

at around this time last year hilary and i were in tamil nadu .....travelling by train...bus and taxi....visiting the most fantastic temples whilst staying at the artists village in cholamondal just south of chennai....i collected posters from walls along the dual carriageway.....this is a sample of some of the collages that i made....i also made some very big ones approximately 7metres long.....in these larger works i combined indian gods.....ganesh....shiva..
.with film stars...and other emphemera collected from the temples....for example maderai...what an amazing place....you can see more at holts in india blog



1 comment:

Unknown said...

Charlie.. we are in class looking at your exploits. We think they are very original. Will you bring some work in or let Mr boak borrow the very colourful ones we have on our website? We are using your methods of getting compositions to develop our own work.Will you keep commenting on our MAFA site if we ask questions? 7RD