solar and garden of eden bears...progress on their journey

david wright in his studio at lindens mill in hebden bridge

recently i visited david at his studio in hebden bridge, paul clifford and myself were members of a course that david organised in the mid 80s called "pickup 14" a digital art course that was a movable feast that travelled the country ,including people such as sue gollifer and mike north...another member of the course is in the painting. a couple of years ago david organised a paula rego show at the mill as part of the hebden bridge festival they where fellow students at the slade. it was good to meet up recently and catch up on each others news.

exhibition...drumcroon gallery uk

here are a couple of shots at the opening at the drumcroon gallery in wigan with two other artists nikki parmenter and eric gaskell, the title of the
show is "who do we think we are?" here i am with ivy at the private view...what an amazing night meeting lots of old feriends that i hadnt seen for ages including rod taylor and keith walker and of course derek boak. rod founded the centre almost 30 years ago and keith was an influential director of the centre for a number of years...and derek is an old mate. the show runs til july.

the unknown island series

a show at the drumcroon gallery in wigan, Private view april 24, 6-30 til 8pm, all welcome. The show runs til July 3.............................................................................. visit http://www.drumcroon.org.uk/home.html
nothing on site yet .
The exhibition includes nikki parmenter and eric gaskell.
The work that I have on show is a mixture of "The navigator series", " the flying carpets series" and "the unknown island"

window poems

shop windows street theatre, mannequins telling a silent story, no one speaks to them..we cant hear what they are saying, they stand quietly not moving.....what is the message?

the generals wall in salir

This is one of the walls in Salir that Bota Filipe is working on at the moment, on the left hand side is a very small window which I am going to visually extend painting it realistically and painting the wall like the interior of the room, thus connecting the concept to the Magritte room .

"the inside out room", Magritte revisted in salir unfinished

Hilary and I were invited upto Zefa 2 in Salir, when we arrived there were around twenty people present, Bota Filipe showed us around the Quinta and some of the already painted buildings.Finally I was shown into a small room that was roofless, on the walls were written in Portuguese a set of questions, as I navigated my way round with some help....it dawned on me that I was being invited to paint the room....total freedom...I must have looked totally surprised at the offer....everyone began to laugh and joke...they had all been in on the secret.What was my idea??????? And when was I going to start and when would it be finished?