Monday 30 January 2012



Bruegal the Elder
Large Alpine Landscape c.1555-56



Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Ponte Milvio c.18th century



where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett

fragment from Bayeux tapestry










black crayon drawings

Tuesday 24 January 2012







a great black tooth, the ruined abbey of St. Hilda, stands high on the cliff above Whitby, facing every winds that is flown against it.

Hayling Island water tower


The Lakes 


Seascape 


House on the moor 

L . S. Lowry landscapes

Monday 23 January 2012



ways of presenting collections/ archives Christian Boltanski's
often uses 'Lost Property' from public spaces such as railway stations
found postcards, Charing Cross Road




Illuminated bandstand, Southend - on sea




Aldeburgh, Martello Tower




The Josing block, Bradwell-on-sea, 1922




Stalham Broad




acrylic painting of Paglesham


But the life of man is short, the infirmities of age increase upon me, and the time will soon come, when the regulator of the year will mingle with the dust

you alone sit corroded with ide melancholy

'Such said' said Nekayah, "is the state of life, that none are happy by the anticipation of change; the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before"

The History of Rasselas. Prince of Abyssinia. Samuel Johnson

Saturday 21 January 2012






exile is the theme of the more personal poetry of the Anglo-Saxon England.
An exile (wraecca, also meaning wretch, stranger, wanderer, pilgrim, unhappy man) is the protagonist of all English elegies.




'Garden of sleep' Norfolk


Seascapes

he travels in the past


watercolour painted over a found print
some notes


August Strindbergs notes
longing for the Stockholm archipelogo
used nature to symbolise his own feelings
spent his time between France Germany
Denmark and Switzerland






Charlton mill, Hampshire 1940

Tuesday 17 January 2012


Old Ferguson Place, Prince Edward Island,
Photo George S. Zimbel


Jeno Kertesz as Icarus, 1919-20
photograph by Andre Kertesz
I verily believe that nor you, nor any man of poetical temperament, can avoid a strong passion of some kind. It is the poetry of life. What should I have known or written, had I been a quiet, mercantile politician, or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil , or there is no existence. 

Lord Byron
postcards from notebook




Graham Sutherland the Unfinished World exhibition
with a Samuel Palmer postcard


Forest 
acrylic on paper




Dead trees with lake
acrylic on paper

August Sander