Had to judge a school art competition for Margate Civic Society last week: not at all easy! Lots of fantastic drawings and paintings of the Margate Clock Tower, Turner Contemporary, and the Tudor House!
South East Open Studios has finished and by various accounts has been more successful this year, at least in this East Kent area. I wonder if this will be sustainable, or whether it’s a temporary response to the financial crisis? It’s quite an investment of time and energy as well as money, so let’s hope it signals new and positive behaviour: artists need all the help they can get!
Meanwhile I’m still re-orienting myself in my new space: have temporarily mislaid the special rocks that I was working with before the move, and feel lost without them. On the good side, I’m looking back through sketch books and journals, and re-discovering the landscape I was working within.
