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Back in Malta, still landing....

28/6/2014

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After three weeks of holiday in the UK and USA, I think it might take a while to get my feet back on the ground. I had never been to America before, so the flight alone was an experience..... and then- America!
 

Austin Texas to be precise. I was visiting my friend the artist Bruce Bingham in her new home. We didn't actually paint much but we had a lot of fun visiting art galleries and museums.

 What hit me the most were the signs though - and the sense of crazy humour everywhere.
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'Shoulda Been A Cowboy'
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Taco Bar
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'No Zapatos, No Tacos'
 Shops so packed with Things that it was almost too much to take in, and the overwhelming friendliness. 
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'Mean-Eyed Cat Bar'
I had intended to blog while I was away, but it didn't happen.
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'Five Reasons to Drink Wine'
Now back to earth and getting myself in gear again. The Malta Arts Festival begins soon, and then the Malta Jazz Festival, so I am looking forward to painting there as usual. 

I have a collection of paintings hanging at Palazzo de Piro in Mdina until the end of August. It's such a great venue - do pop in if you can!

Meanwhile, enjoy some Austin humour!
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 I was too busy taking things in to put anything out..... and that included a very special red wine called Sexual Chocolate as well as grits, meatloaf, chicken fried steak, corn dogs, frozen margueritas..... all those things I'd heard of and never tasted. I didn't even know what they were! 

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Taco Bar
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Drawing on.....

2/6/2014

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I have been really busy this last week taking down one exhibition and putting up another....... before I go on holiday. 

All the details of the next exhibition are here
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please pop along to the opening if you can. If not, the paintings will be at the Palazzo de Piro all summer. If you are in Malta they'd love to see you :-)

Immediately after the opening, I am off to London for a few days and then I'm going on an Adventure - my first trip to the USA. I will be visiting my great friend the artist Bruce Bingham, in Austin, Texas. I am very excited and really looking forward to being somewhere so different. The art scene will be the most interesting of all. Malta is tiny, 316 km2 (122 square miles). Every other person seems to be an artist, but we all know each other. Exposure to new and inspiring art is generally limited to the internet. Much as I love to browse foreign artist's work online, there's no comparison to seeing the real thing. I know that with my own work - it's hard to see the difference between a tiny picture and a huge one when they are all as big as your screen. And the colours - however hard you try to compensate - are changed by the processes of photography and individual screens. Texture and surface are hard to see on a screen too. There's something visceral about standing in front of a piece of art that really speaks to your soul. 
I will also have my sketchbooks to hand. For me, there's nothing better than sneakily drawing people travelling on buses, trains and planes, or waiting in stations and airports. It means I'm rarely bored. 
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So, whatever happens, I will have a wealth of new experiences to literally draw on. 
I intend to keep up my blog posts while I am away, so follow along on my adventure.....
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... and when I get back there will be the Malta Jazz Festival, Malta Arts Festival and many more  paintings to paint !
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