Collage session in Hoxton Square |
After that, the paintings by Nogah Engler (at Mummery & Schnelle) were a delight to the eye - many layered ... but with a grim story of genocide behind it.
In the same show, photographs by Ori Gersht (he of the exploding flowers), which gave me another chance to get out the pastels -
On to Flowers East, where Patrick Hughes was showing lots of his 3D paintings - as you walk past them, the perspective changes drastically, due to the construction of the "canvas" and the use of shadows -
In a back room were a few pieces by Tom Hammick, using collage of Japanese printed papers as well as painting or linocut reduction -Coffee time - to The Bridge -
with wonderful machines on the bar
and a Russian tea-room feel upstairs -
Then Lucinda took us to her studio [with views of industrial Hoxton...]. Her earlier work, semi-abstract houses "of personality" -
has changed to semi-abstract mountainous landscapes, informed by walking in the Pyrenees -
and is strangely related to the "mountains" of the London skyline -
At home I worked on the day's pages ... away from the subject, they could "become themselves" -
"After John Stark" |
"After Ori Gersht" |
Ready for a nice fat pen, next time |
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