Masked

 

I am showing a series of watercolour drawings and balsa wood sculptures on the theme of masked figures from 16th August to 3rd September 2014 at Halesworth Gallery. Not to be confused with the Cut, Halesworth Gallery was established in 1966, and has been successfully managed all these years by a committee of local residents and artists.  It is to be found at Steeple End by St. Mary's Church in the centre of town.  The gallery is on the first floor of an ancient building and consists of three sizeable rooms, so that each exhibition features three artists with one room each.  The other artists exhibiting in this show are Michaela D'Agati, a young constructivist, and the mysterious Gilbert Winston.

Dissent and postmodernism

Dissent, watercolour and ink, 2011

It's not that I have any Utopian idea of how society might be perfectly organised - every society needs structure and in the shadows of every structure lurk the sacrifices made to achieve coherence: the resources exploited, what has been excluded or sublimated, the alternatives of how it might have been, the memory of what was there before and fears about what it might become! A shared belief in structural integrity is what enables us to conduct our social transactions in a more or less workable fashion. In not so good times, however, voices of dissent gather enough conviction to come out fighting from the shadows!

Waiting, pen and wash, February 2010

What a strange winter it has been! It seems as if we are just waiting to see what might be coming at us next, for better or worse.