tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2193636368494084722024-03-18T02:48:59.195-07:00Judith I BridglandLife in the Studio and Beyond - Notes from a Scottish ArtistJudithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01699059997487134415noreply@blogger.comBlogger734125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-219363636849408472.post-80293859657020336852020-04-27T05:45:00.000-07:002020-04-27T05:57:09.968-07:00Meet the Paintings - Pink Waterlilies in Sunlight<br />
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x 32, with a beautiful classic white gold frame.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’ve been visiting glasshouses and exotic gardens for
decades now, as there’s something really fascinating about the abstract shapes
of plants – cacti, succulents, the shapes and reflections of leaves on
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’ve painted in the cactus
gardens in Barcelona, the glasshouses at Kew in London,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Duthie Park in Aberdeen, the Botanics in
Glasgow (the orchid house was a particular favourite), the lilies in the ponds
in Central Park in New York and the glasshouses at Edinburgh. Wherever I can
find them, in fact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I was starting
out painting, I used to go twice a week to the Botanics in Glasgow to study the
plants and paint , and the rest of the time to Kelvingrove to draw the animal
specimens, even being allowed access to the collection in the basement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Painting plants is a discipline, as it is all about
observation – something which was very much drummed into my biology science
class at university.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You need to constantly
look, and observe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To understand the
importance in art of knowing the basic principles of design in the natural
world and botany, I’ll point you in the direction of fellow Glaswegian,
<a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cdrs/hd_cdrs.htm">Christopher Dresser</a> <span style="color: blue;">.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course, it’s a bit of a cliché to paint waterlilies –
Monet managed it so much bigger, more extravagantly, more audaciously than
anyone else could possibly ever do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of
course, he had the money, and the estate, and six gardeners, and a diverted
river to feed his lily ponds, and exotic plants bought in, and vast canvasses
and giant studios and good weather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
the talent. No-one is ever going to top that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But there is still something fascinating about watching the
patterns changing on the surface of things, of the reflections and the light
and the colours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are painting
exactly what you see, but it is all about abstraction and pattern-making, as
there are no longer the usual reference points for reading the painting, a lack
of easy means of measuring distance and depth. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are looking down at the sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a world of invertions, where nothing is
quite as it seems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the photos, I have included at the end some of my
paintings of waterlilies from 30 years ago, along with a sheet of botanical
drawings.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have few photos of early
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01699059997487134415noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-219363636849408472.post-8278818742619455482020-04-27T05:34:00.000-07:002020-04-27T05:34:03.496-07:00Meet the Paintings - Montbretia on the Shoreline<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time to take a trip along the West Coast
of Scotland and the Road to the Isles and Arisaig.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There we’ll find some <b>‘Montbretia on the
Shoreline’</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is another little
painting, all about complimentary colours of blue and orange.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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holidays, where a steam train travelled the West Highland Line in actual
time.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That’s all that happened – no
competing chefs or Scandinavian murders, you just travelled along in the train
and looked out of the window.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s known
as the most scenic railway journey in the world, and for good reason.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was very relaxing.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The train is called ‘The Jacobite’ (although you can also
travel on an ordinary train - <a href="https://www.scotrail.co.uk/scotland-by-rail/great-scenic-rail-journeys/west-highland-line-glasgow-oban-and-fort-williammallaig">The West Highland Line</a>)
and it takes 5 and a half hours from Glasgow to Mallaig. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s known as the most scenic railway journey
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, the whole journey had me sitting at the edge of the
seat waiting to go around corners to bits where I’ve painted (so I guess not
very relaxing, actually).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could spot
various trees and houses and views of passing lochs that I’ve photographed and
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After Arisaig, the train goes along by Camusdarach and the
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beautiful day, the bluey green sea and the distant shapes of the islands of the
Hebrides on the horizon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s achingly lovely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01699059997487134415noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-219363636849408472.post-3666730707050502932020-04-24T04:12:00.001-07:002020-04-24T04:12:21.354-07:00Meet the Paintings - Grasses in the Dunes<br />
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in East Lothian, and in the distance, barely discernable through the grasses,
is a little island called Fidra with its lighthouse (and is mentioned in a song
by Marillion, prog rock fact fans!). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can read more about the lighthouse here <a href="https://uklighthousetour.com/2018/09/16/the-beautiful-island-of-fidra/">The Beautiful Island of Fidra</a> and here <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidra">Wikipedia</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s nice to be able to use the paint to get the texture of
the grasses, which is done using a lot of liquin to make the oil paint quite
loose, and a longhaired watercolour brush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then I scratch into the surface to draw in the stiff stems of the sea
grasses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a nice contract between
this texture and the flatness of the broad salmon pink tones of the beach.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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can take a look at the general area: <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fidra/@56.0634633,-2.7803454,14z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x4887a97801668a13:0x767e1d054da06de1!8m2!3d56.0724299!4d-2.7842359">Link to viewpoint for painting</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01699059997487134415noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-219363636849408472.post-37774986698957565732020-04-24T04:05:00.001-07:002020-04-27T05:24:43.791-07:00Meet the Paintings - Grasses by the Beach, Harris and Sand Patterns, Luskentyre<br />
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of pace today, with something calming and serene – we probably all need
something a little calm and serene at the moment! Here are a pair of little acrylic paintings called
‘Grasses by the Beach, Harris’ and 'Sand Patterns, Luskentyre'. They are both in simple cream frames to emphasise their clean lines and give them a beachy feel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They are both acrylic on clayboard, which means that instead of being all about texture, they are all about the smoothness of the beach. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Acrylic is a water-soluble medium, which means you can get the thin washes of watercolour, but the depth of colour and texture of oils.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last year I took a painting trip to the Hebridean islands of
Lewis and Harris.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Here's the photos that I used as the material for the paintings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It’s a very ancient
landscape in the Outer Hebrides, peppered with standing stones, beautifully well-preserved
brochs,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">traditional low thatched black
houses, and modern-day buildings that sympathetically echo the landscape in
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was fortunate enough to have the most amazing
weather.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The beaches in Harris are
absolutely endless, with smooth white empty sand, which you pretty much have
all to yourself.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The sea is a
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">As usual, I’ve put a link at the bottom so you can see the
actual place and explore the area.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The
actual location is on the Old Military Road (A939) just before you come into
Tomintoul. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For a few years, I was lucky
enough to be able to stay regularly at a friend’s cottage at Clashnoir at the
Braes of Glenlivet, which is near Tomintoul, in the whisky making area of
Glenlivet and Knockando.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being able to stay at various times throughout the year,
including during the famous traditional Tomintoul Highland Games, meant that I
was able to see the same area in different seasons, and observe how the
landscape changed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01699059997487134415noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-219363636849408472.post-63032194775543698262020-04-18T07:20:00.001-07:002020-04-18T07:21:24.858-07:00Meet the Paintings - Foxgloves, Looking Towards the Campsies<br />
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painting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is <b>‘Foxgloves, Looking
Towards the Campsies.’</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was done on
the same spot </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">as the ‘Dog Roses’ painting, on the edge of Mugdock Country Park
(<a href="https://www.mugdock-country-park.org.uk/Home/fbclid/IwAR18kz-Sba6PAFWMhA3SmvNXxDPN3yom3K7tQ3nntedGvrUx1NDc_7Fcfm0">Mugdock Country Park website here</a></span>)</div>
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little jewel, only six inches square. On
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make them, as you are limited to how many gestural marks you can make on that
small a surface, and how much detail you can put in. It’s pared back , but that’s a nice thing to
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painting that is all about the punchy pinky-purple of the foxgloves, and the
contrast of the acidic yellowy-green of the grass, and it has a beautiful hand-gilded
white gold frame to show these colours and textures off to their best.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a set of photos taken over a 15 year period, all taken at different times of
the year and documenting the changing seasons.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have others taken from years before that which are on film, and which
show some truly shocking weather conditions, including snow, sleet, rain and
mist.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I still did paintings from them
though!</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I even went scrambling through a
quarry with my baby son strapped to my front to take photos…</span></div>
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where the paintings were made on Google Maps </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@55.9675866,-4.3110805,3a,75y,1.61h,95.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sD-ab8SNn4bTFCqNCDnI_Ow!2e0!7i13312!8i6656">here</a>.</b></span></span></div>
Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01699059997487134415noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-219363636849408472.post-54393441794911721222020-04-12T07:53:00.003-07:002020-04-27T05:54:13.156-07:00Meet the Paintings - Field of Poppies and Thistles<br />
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little one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was painted at
Longniddry, on the east coast of Scotland near North Berwick, where there is
always the most amazing displays of poppies in the fields and at the sides of
the road in early summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I did a whole series of paintings based on the wonderful
poppies in that field, including this one of the track leading along to the farm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poppies are wonderful to paint, especially in
oils, as not only are they such a amazing pop of colour (in pure vermillion, or
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But unfortunately, this beautiful field of poppies
no longer exists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly, here’s a photo
of the field from a few weeks ago – a field of mud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s now a construction site, as it is being
turned into a housing estate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So my
paintings are the last record of how the field used to look. </span><br />
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Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01699059997487134415noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-219363636849408472.post-59072597846941346152020-04-12T07:39:00.001-07:002020-04-27T05:49:53.371-07:00Meet the Paintings - Farm and Autumn Fields<br />
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to know an area really well, so that you know individual plants throughout the
seasons, and lining up the photographs absolutely exactly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The antithesis to this process is quickly taking
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">When I go to take photos, the parts in between the
locations are often as interesting as the locations themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s just that you can’t stop, especially on
a fast road, or on a train.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s difficult
to switch off if you’re a passenger., as you are constantly looking, looking,
looking, and seeing the composition, watching for all the elements to line up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s impossible to look out of a window at a
passing landscape , and the clouds and the changing light, and the undulating
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Of course, there’s a big element of chance in it,
and it’s just a question of opportunistically grabbing what I can see, of
note-taking.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I have lots of photos of
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quite where I would wish it – that’s the nature of the fleeting glimpse., the
moment that’s there and then gone so suddenly and that only I have see thorough
the camera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a hugely personal,
temporal moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it’s about embracing
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Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01699059997487134415noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-219363636849408472.post-47705684607167267712020-04-09T04:04:00.000-07:002020-04-27T05:55:05.253-07:00Meet the Paintings - Evening Clouds, the Summer Isles<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meet the Paintings Day 4 - today it's<b> 'Evening Clouds, the Summer Isles".</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was painted when I was travelling the <b><a href="http://www.northcoast500.com/">North Coast 500 route</a> </b>round the north of Scotland. Travelling the winding single-track roads of the route is an amazing experience, but is quite weather-dependent. And unfortuantely, the weather had been shocking up until I got to Ullapool, nothing but mist and rain - I couldn't see any landscape at all worth painting, and certainly none of the famous mountains. Where were they?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then, travelling one evening from Ullapool to Achiltibuie where I was staying, the most lifted and I was treated to the most amazing sunset. Suddenly, the landscape appeared in a fiery blaze, with the most astonishing, almost primeval mountains rising up as if by magic. Stac Pollaidh looked like Gandalf's hat!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was able to look out of the window at any time during the night, and see the Summer Isles in a soft glow, as it never really got dark, known as the 'Simmer Dim'. And who would want to be able to look out at something called 'The Summer Isles'? It's like something out of Narnia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's a very sweet little painting, only six inches square, but it's like a little jewel. I put it in a lovely cream frame with silver bands to set it off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The location is one that I know really, really well. It's on the Old Mugdock road looking across the valley of Strathblane, with the volcanic plug of Dumgoyne in the distance at the end of the long ridge of the Campsie Fells. Dumgoyne is something of an iconic image for me, as I saw it every day coming home from school, and I can see it now across Glasgow amongst the distant hills. It's a dramatic reminder of the volcanic nature of the local geography. The Strathblane Valley itself was created by a giant sheet of ice scraping down between the hills, flattening and sculpting the landscape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've often painted and drawn at Mugdock over the years, and, as it my practice, I return to the same spot at different times of the year to paint the same scene. So I also did a painting of the same roses in the autumn when they were rosehips. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Queens View is a local beauty spot on the A809 road to the north of Glasgow between Milngavie and Drymen, so fairly local to me. It's on the road to the very beautiful and famous Loch Lomond, and you can see Ben Lomond in the distance there in the painting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's also the spot where you can explore The Whangie and The Devil's Pulpit - colourful names for local geological formations. You can read more about them here <b><a href="https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=7866"> The Whangie and Devil's Pulpit.</a> </b> It's also a good spot to go sledging in the winter (or it was, when winters used to have a lot of snow!). At midsummer, Ben Lomond is the place to climb during the night to meet the sunrise on the summit. So it's a landscape that I know very well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The cow parsley in the picture is great to paint - its 'umbrels', or umbrella-like crowns of white flowers give it a great expressive shape that lends itself to oil paint, so I'm very partial to finding some in the foreground of any scene! As it dies back during the summer and autumn, it has a lovely reddish colour to its tall hollow stems. You can read more about it <a href="https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/wildflowers/cow-parsley?fbclid=IwAR2wfmVZcKYy_BsU4BVr6MyukPniLTlew334mGQWiOYaZ3aN_x7vcgrvhfs"><b>HERE.</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Take a look for yourself at Queens View on Google Maps here - <b><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@55.9973243,-4.3888217,3a,75y,331.42h,83.24t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sXAKIJLAcSF1Az9zOL4L4Xg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DXAKIJLAcSF1Az9zOL4L4Xg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D354.4882%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656">Explore Queens View</a>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Celebrating the coming of spring, here's the first of my 'Meet the Paintings' - the appropriately seasonal 'Bed of Tulips'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The queen has been a little shy for the past couple of years, and sadly abdicated completely last year, but I'm still looking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every spring, my beautiful tulips give me such joy, especially with the backdrop of my magnificent cherry tree in blossom (at the moment, it barely has buds though).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here we are in the thick, unpenetrable blanket of smoke of Steve Hackett and <i>Spectral Mornings</i> again, all strange stories of undead souls, gradually getting odder and odder throughout the tour. "I once went to a spiritual chiropractor to get the spirits on the other side to sort out a pain in my foot", Steve announced. O-kaaay...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, off we go - here's <i>Every Day</i>, with Nad in his sunglasses.</span></div>
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01699059997487134415noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-219363636849408472.post-47119685920469450052019-11-24T15:39:00.002-08:002019-11-25T16:30:49.448-08:00Steve Hackett at the Sage Gateshead, 23 November 2019<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Always lovely to be back in Gateshead, and the spectacular Sage by the banks of the Tyne.</span><br />
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Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01699059997487134415noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-219363636849408472.post-8151246804324860632019-11-24T14:04:00.004-08:002019-11-25T16:43:24.993-08:00Steve Hackett at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 18 November 2019<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Birmingham always seems to be in a state of flux, and now, so is the Symphony Hall - the facade has been removed for upgrading, taking with it the downstairs toilets. Which isn't great for concert goers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Never mind, it's always wonderful to be in the TSHS. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oddly, my seat tonight is once more right opposite Rob Townsend's spoon. The man will be getting a complex.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And here is the many-armed, multi-instrumentalist Mr Townsend, who is kept impossibly busy throughout the show. His annoying larkiness has toned down since the departure of drummer Gary O'Toole, but there is still a huge amount of playfulness to his playing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was a very pretty light effect for <i>The Virgin and the Gypsy</i> from Spectral Mornings, which featured Steve's brother John Hackett on flute. John also played on <i>The Red Flower of Tachai Blooms Everywhere</i>, which I love, and which is rarely heard live.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nad Sylvan in his curry-house wallpaper coat ((c) Sheffield audience) for singlalong favourite<i> I Know What I Like</i>. The man is never out of character, even when he is sitting on the riser at the back, with the very smallest of story-telling details such as tiny little eye-brow twitches and movements of his fingers on the tambourine to elaborate certain parts of the song. In between this, there is lots of space where he doesn't move, but this stillness is also important and holds your attention, and is part of the texture of his performance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's nothing quite like (a) Sheffield, (b) a Steve Hackett concert, and (c) a Steve Hackett concert in Sheffield. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, two of my favourite things coming together!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He may be nearly 70, but he still does 22 dates in a UK tour, selling out most of the venues and playing for 3 hours a night. What a guy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This tour plays songs from his latest solo album <i>At the Edge of Light</i>, plus the whole of <i>Selling England by the Pound</i>, and some of <i>Spectral Mornings</i>, celebrating its 40th anniversary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are the songs we grew up with, and we can still hear them live, as good and fresh and thrilling as ever. Aren't we lucky?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So. It was a cold a slightly damp night in Sheffield. I had a spare ticket to sell, and was berating the fact that I was very very unlikely to find a lone Genesis fan passing at that precise moment and who was at a loose end and looking for something to do that evening. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About ten seconds later, that person walked up to me and bought my spare ticket (and loved the show, apparently!).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was pleased to find I was sitting right in front of this very important member of the band...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There's a really interesting short video here about the current exhibition at the Royal Academy in London of work by Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She's an artist who is little known outside her native Scandinavia, but here's a short crash course, which you can also read here <a href="https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/helene-schjerfbeck?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_content=Video&utm_campaign=Weekly%20HeleneSchjerfbeck%20d_Friends%2020190829%20F&emailcode=renzopiano#video">HERE</a>, plus a interesting article on her portraits <a href="https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/ra-magazine-helene-schjerfbeck-ian-mckeever">HERE.</a> Do go and see the show - women are grossly underrepresented in art history, so it is always good to reappraise and acknowledge their contribution.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">She was a childhood prodigy who overcame family
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when she was just 11 years old and she began attending art school. Her family
could only afford to educate one of their children (her brother Magnus), but
luckily her tutors believed in her potential and she was offered a full
scholarship. When she was just 13, her father died from tuberculosis and her
family fell further into poverty. But Schjerfbeck continued to receive funding,
and by the age of 18, she was studying art in Paris on a trip paid for by the
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<b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">She was independent and a risk taker </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Schjerfbeck lived
through some of the most seismic shifts in modern art, from Impressionism to
Surrealism. But she was never one to follow the crowd and forged her own path.
She drew inspiration everywhere from Old Master paintings to contemporary
fashion magazines – and in the process she developed her own distinctive,
expressive style. Her work defies categorisation and she is often seen as a
“painter’s painter” - someone who constantly experimented with techniques, and
was willing to push and take risks rather than repeat past successes. </span><br />
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is little known outside her home country...</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">…but Schjerfbeck’s fame may have spread
further, were it not for the outbreak of war. In 1914, she was the only Finnish
woman artist who took part in the prestigious Baltic Exhibition in Malmo,
Sweden. The event was designed to show off the industry, art and culture of
Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Russia but was interrupted when Germany and Russia
entered the First World War on opposite sides of the conflict. Some 25 years
later, Schjerfbeck’s work was due to be displayed in the USA for the first
time, but the outbreak of the Second World War led to the exhibition being
cancelled. </span><br />
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<b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">She travelled widely throughout Europe </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Schjerfbeck lived
with limited mobility after a childhood fall that broke her hip. Despite the
barriers this would have posed to her, she travelled widely during her younger
years, making trips to Vienna, St Petersburg, Florence, Paris and St Ives.
While in England, her work was exhibited in a gallery on Piccadilly in London,
close to where the Royal Academy of Arts still stands today. Schjerfbeck’s
travels helped shape her unique style and she drew on everything she saw in
Europe once back home in rural Finland. Although she wasn’t able to travel
later in life, she never stopped painting. When she died in 1946 she had
devoted more than 70 years to her art. </span><br />
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<b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">She was never
afraid to take a long, hard look in the mirror</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"> Schjerfbeck created
self-portraits throughout her life but in her final two years, she drew and
painted her own face more than 20 times, seemingly fascinated with the physical
and psychological process of ageing. As she commented in a letter to a friend,
“this way the model is always available, although it isn’t always pleasant to
see oneself.” These later works show a move towards radically abstracted
figuration that foreshadowed the portraiture of Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and
Frank Auerbach.</span></div>
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<span id="goog_1623050565"></span><span id="goog_1623050566"></span><br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01699059997487134415noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-219363636849408472.post-55408915360286373232019-07-07T16:33:00.003-07:002019-07-07T16:33:44.807-07:00Yes at PNC Amphitheater, Holmdel, 16 June 2019<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yay! Just up from Atlantic City, and along the road from my favourite service area ever...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...it's the PNC Bank Arts Center at Holmdel. Yay!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, it's third time lucky with the camera. Here we go... Brace! Brace!!</span><br />
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<br />Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01699059997487134415noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-219363636849408472.post-44391055921659968942019-07-07T16:02:00.000-07:002019-07-07T16:04:10.154-07:00The Royal Tour: Yes at the Hard Rock Casino, Atlantic City, 15th June 2019<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ah, Atlantic City. Back again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now I <i>did </i>have my camera this evening. Hurrah! And I did have a photography pass. Yay!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately, it's a new camera, and I hadn't got to grips with the settings. They were set up for landscapes (which don't move), but rubbish for rock stars indoors (who move a lot). I was hopeless. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meanwhile, right in front of me, the Gottlieb brothers trained their 20 foot long telephoto lenses on the band, and effortlessly snapped their endless masterpieces like a pair of absolute Magnum pros.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyway, at this point, daunted by the pros in front of me, and frustrated by my total ineptitude, I gave up, and just listened to the <i>Gates of Delirium</i>. Because it's not every day that you can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Apologies for the lack of photos - for logistical reasons, I didn't have my camera with me :-(</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I took photos with my phone, and my phone decided it was full as soon as Yes came on. :-( :-(</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, you do briefly get to see Jon in his natty checked Rupert Bear trousers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BTW, just to prove that really <i>is</i> the name of the place we're at, here it is. And here's everyone on the committee that chose it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sorry.</span>Judithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01699059997487134415noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-219363636849408472.post-40399855362344374962019-07-07T15:17:00.002-07:002019-07-07T15:17:50.483-07:00The Royal Tour: Asia<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ah, Asia. Asia do nothing for me whatsoever. I don't know why. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, they do have the lovely Mr Downes on keyboards and the equally lovely Mr Sherwood on bass (although he really was too far away on the right hand side for me to get any unblurry shots of him). (In fact, even when he was right beside me, he was still blurry...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, having said that I don't like Asia, the set was not without its entertaining moments, and here's one of them. <i><b>Video Killed the Radio Star</b></i>, folks, with the ghosts of tuneless Trevor Horn (c.f. Glasgow Apollo, 1980 - I don't forgive or forget) and youthful Geoff, looming behind Ron Thal and his megaphone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the Hard Rock Casino in Atlantic City, I got up to leave after Asia had finished, much to the bemusement of a middle-aged couple beside me (who had greeted each act so far with increasing bemusement and enthusiasm). "Gee, where is everyone going?" the guy asked. I replied "It's a 20 minute break now and then Yes come on." "<b><i>WE'RE GOING TO SEE YES????</i></b>" the guy yelled, incredulously. Like, score!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before seeing the show, I had zero interest in seeing Mr Lodge, or was aware I knew any of his tunes. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it turns out that yes, I did know most of his songs, and he did a hugely enjoyable and affable set. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At one point (and rather excitingly) Jon Davidson came out to sing </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ride My See-Saw</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, which irritatingly, is still stuck in my head three weeks later...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the same bill were <b>Carl Palmer's band with Arthur Brown</b> (as in the Crazy World of..., my head is on fire etc), <b>John Lodge</b> of the Moody Blues, <b>Asia</b>, and the whole raison d'etre, <b>Yes</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Locations were the Long Island Community Hospital Theater, Farmingville; the Hard Rock Theater at Atlantic City, NJ; and the PNC at Holmdel, NJ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm going to lump them all together by group, so first up - the ever-youthful Carl Palmer, and the force of nature that is Arthur Brown. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's the version of my interview of painting techniques and impasto oil painting which featured in the April 2019 edition of <b><i>Artists and Illustrators</i></b> magazine.</span></div>
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