London and back in a day
trip to London gallery today to restock - gallery a little less impressive, and not blue as on the website. I drove straight past it ….. 
but they loved the pots, promised to put me back on the website, and will think about an exhibition although they said they are cutting back on dedicated ceramics shows ….
I only spent about 20 minutes with them due to parking issues.
but in fact I found a reasonably priced (£3 per hour) car park nearby, near the Angel tube station, and dashed into central London on the tube. I made a stupid mistake and went to the National Gallery instead of the Tate - I can’t believe I did that! - but then got myself to the ceramics gallery, Galerie Besson, that has shown interest in putting a piece of mine in the next mixed show, met Anita Besson … just briefly, but I wanted to say hello as I have spoken to her twice on the phone.
they have an interesting show of a Japanese anagama potter, Yasuhisa Kohyama.
then I rushed off to the Tate and saw the paintings I wanted to see - Peter Doig - Canadian, but living in the UK - now he has moved to Trinidad, and I don’t like his new paintings so much.
I like this though …
here is a virtual trip round the exhibition
link
then I had a sandwich (at 3 pm) and a cup of tea …. I was starving by then …
caught the tube back to my car, and drove home in about 3 hours - its was 3 hours each way …
but I should say I liked most of the paintings very much! quite inspiring …
I can see influences from Bonnard
Matisse
Gaugin
and Caspar David Friedrich
without the religious overtones.
Said, on April 10th, 2008 at 4:17 pm :
That religious picture is quite something else, I love the palette of golden, and green and light brown, it just works. The little boy in the melting snow puddle is good, too, and yet another reminder the winter party is nearly over.
The Japanese aesthetic appeals to me on so many levels.
Said, on April 10th, 2008 at 9:37 pm :
Glad you had good luck!!
And that Japanese pot is very interesting… it looks like a peice of flint that you might see from 10,000 years ago that people had knapped to use as a spear point.
Very interesting. xoxoxoxo
Said, on April 11th, 2008 at 12:35 am :
you can’t see so well from the little image (Doig’s paintings are huge) but he’s on a frozen lake. so many of Doig’s paintings are of lakes, frozen or not, I think they are his best.
Said, on April 11th, 2008 at 6:37 am :
Did you manage a trip to Muji?
Going to the wrong gallery is something I’d do… Pimlico… the West End… you say tomato…
I like the Doig painting they used for the exhibit’s advertising campaign. I like the way it clashes expressionism (?) with neo-dadaism (? I think. I know nothing about art). As it happens I was on the Tate website just last night.
I miss London. Sigh.
Said, on April 12th, 2008 at 1:19 am :
no, no Muji! I can probably get a friend to get me stuff from there. no shopping - except for £50 of stuff at the Tate - a very good book on Doig, not the catalogue, and a book of his posters for the films he screens in his studio in trinidad.
hmm, not sure about the neo dada! LOL! there is more than a touch of surrealism in his work though.