Following my recent visit to the Bradgate Country Park in Leicestershire, where I accumulated quite a stock of reference material, I am now committed to developing this as a series of paintings. It is wonderful to be so motivated again, and so confident that there is a resource here which will keep me creatively busty … Read more
We’re back home after our week-end away in Wiltshire, which was really very interesting. I’ll comment on the Laurence Edwards exhibition later (the reason for the whole trip), but I would like to share first some thoughts about Grayson Perry. On Saturday we decided to visit Salisbury, which was new to both of us, and … Read more
I’ve taken an interest in the work of the British ceramicist Grayson Perry for some years now, visiting several of his exhibitions and (most recently) watching his series of TV programmes in which he tries to create rites of passage with a contemporary relevance. He is invariably imaginative in his interpretation of his subject-matter, and … Read more