“Well who hasn’t got a lot going on?” ... a loaded question that inspired me organise the home fort, so I could pop myself into the car at lunchtime on a Friday, and take a much needed quick country jaunt.
I later found my self sitting quietly in a country Victorian cafe and there I noticed how none of us in that small room appeared to have ‘a lot going on’, and yet there was another layer happening as I sat. Some type of permeable richness seemed to be going on within the quietness, that told a real life story of those of us not engaging together, sharing that space. The three tables of 5 people, sharing an open fire, sat in a time honoured manner to nourish our individual ‘being-ness’. This is what was going on, so that is what I sat and sketched, noticing all that was happening ‘from the corner'.
And the stillness of ‘then', today stays with me in the marks I made and has traveled with me, back home from the country, back to my little studio spaces in my sketch books, and is today inspiring my next marks. I’m writing as I plot what visual adventure the new tube of Langridge ‘Titanium Grey’ oil paint will take me on now that we’ve found each other from that drive, and I’ll be sure to update things here next month with pics.
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Joy to you dear reader, until next time.
YM
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