Francis Bacon Studio

Treated as an archeological dig and reconstruction, The Dublin City Gallery, Hugh Lane meticulously transfered Bacons studio including all objects and dust from his London studio. It has been treated as a study with notes about everything observed in the excavation.

Nick Devereux

St Somebody Narrative, 2008, Charcoal on Paper, 53.15 x 165.35"

Anothor artist represented by Bugada & Cargnel, Nick uses traditional charcoal techniques like that of Velasquez but is not looking for a reality: it is the information that is percieved by the human eye that is communicated.

Have some other paintings that are coming to mind when looking at this painting - will add in later.

Still Life . . . the way forward.

These are some of my favourites: Zurbaran, Cotan, Froese and Cezanne.

object 2

This image is intriguing - I am now drawing fruit which makes it even better.

It's by Donald Sultan.

New Directions

It's been a while now, i've been doing quite a bit of questioning an hope to show some kind of visual que as to my thoughts in a series here.

This is an image by Idris Khan which is a composite of images based on the works of Bernd & Hilla Becher (whose work I also admire). This is the first of a number of images that are focused on the idea of the object.

Mary Shelley.

I'm reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at the moment, it is a haunting tale but one that I am really enjoying. This book has significance to me and is possible a link for my new body of research as I have been told since a child that we are related. I have recently discovered that this cannot be true as there are no direct descendants, I will have to investigate this further.
Perhaps more disapointing is the loss of a link to Mary's mother: Mary Wolstonecraft.