Went up to Liverpool to see the John Moores painting prize yesterday. I travelled up with my sister, who has been visiting from Australia and was doing her usual mad dash around the UK to see her many friends; one of whom flew over to Liverpool from the Isle of Man specially.
Having embarked on painting again recently, it was a timely visit. An extra incentive to make the journey to Liverpool was that Nathan Eastwood, who was in my cohort at UCA when I started as a part-time student, had a piece in the show. He is interested in social realism and the piece was one of the few overtly political paintings on show.
