Projectspace, an artist-run gallery on a corner was open, with works of variable quality and interest, and no labels - hard, impossible even, to identify the work!
Experiments with a watersoluble pencil and a waterbrush, layering wet and dry -
Next, Wilkinson - the show is by Jonathan Wateridge - simple-seeming scenes and textures that absorb you -Who hasn't struggled with a claustrophobic jumper? -
The pairing works better lengthwise, but the vertical format allows easier comparison of the two images.
Final stop - influenced perhaps by the prospect of a drink in the pub downstairs - was The Approach, a revisit for me. This time I grappled with the masks, which show the effect of various types of lighting -
Why this arrangement? The idea is that when the book is closed, the charcoal will transfer to the spaces on the opposite page.
At one point there was a silent invasion -
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