Drawing on.....

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 :-)

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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. 

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.....

... and when I get back there will be the Malta Jazz Festival, Malta Arts Festival and many more  paintings to paint !