SHARING WITH ME

 After having seen the film on "The National Gallery" which I raved about to everyone. Three hours of bliss. More than documentary but a film that gave you another insight into "looking at art". I was pleased to be going back with Pierrette to the National gallery which I really don't know . We were to see an exhibition which was on, that she wanted me to see. Pierrette had talked about Maggi Hambling. She had seen her work in Cambridge a couple of years ago. Crashing waves on the Suffolk Coast. So when we discovered there was an exhibition at the National Gallery - off we went. 

There were 8 or 9 huge paintings which were very impressive but not necessarily in my eye, water or waves. There was something extraordinarily visual, enveloping in her work. First I was permitted to take photos and then forbidden….but the second time around when we came back to the gallery, there  was Maggi giving a talk on her work. We joined the group. When question time came aro

When taking in an exhibition in London, or anywhere outside of Paris for that matter, I tend to go to what has been programmed and « drink » that in. No more. This time, after a little lunch we decided to look at the permanent collection at the Tate. As we found ourselves alone in most of the different galleries, it was a pleasure to take photos and discover as always many new artists - Brits - that I don’t seem to have come across. Most of the artists I have shared with you already, but some a new too.   Carpet - 1992   Lubaina Himid , born in 1954  in central Africa, is a contemporary African artist and Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire. She was one of the first artists involved in the Black Art movement in the 1980s and continues to create activist art which is shown in galleries in Britain, as well as worldwide. That worldwide always troubles me - so why haven’t I come across her work in France? What I saw here looked amazingl