‘Waterfalls’
It seems like this summer is burning up ! I hope you have managed to find shade and cool somewhere, I have been trying to climate control the studio, with not too much luck, defaulting to the back of the flat for writing. I have just published another poem on the writing page of my website. I wrote it two years ago after a trip to Switzerland. Taking the train all the way with masks on, the pandemic didn’t seem to have touched Switzerland (yet). This precious place with spectacular landscape, inspired me to write from a fabulous lido in a small village called Lenk. It seems to be very topical this summer, its called ‘Waterfalls’.
Two bits of exhibition news….firstly I have just met Graham High, fellow Leeds alumni, who, with his partner Frances, runs a weekend gallery in Blackheath. They will host ‘The Fairy Tale Forest’ in their perfectly pint sized ‘White Box Gallery’ for the first three weekends in December 2022.
I shared my ideas from a recent visit to ‘Miniatur Wunderland’ www.miniatur-wunderland.de in Hamburg with Graham and he says not only will he help me install the show but also assist with my planned miniature ‘Fairy Tale Forest’ window display. For an artist who has an impressive career working on animated props for Babe, Aliens and Harry Potter (to name only a few) he is seriously overqualified for the job……..what a stroke of luck!
Secondly, I am a founding member of the WTF Collective, an artist network which we set up during the pandemic, exhibiting collectively every week on Instagram since 2020 @WTFCollective2020. Fellow artists Alizon Bennet www.alizonbennet.com and Wendy Helps @wahelps are both based in Whitley Bay and among many artistic endeavours, make a big contribution to the carnival there. Our goals are to support each other in developing our own creative work, to exhibit together and see where these interventions will take us collectively…. We have now found ‘Bottleworks’ in Newcastle, on the Lower Ouseburn Valley, near to the city for shopping and eateries. We will be exhibiting there from Thursday 10th to the Tuesday 15th November 2022. More on PVs soon, save the date !