The difficulty with working with materials not traditionally combined in art production is that they have a habit of going spectacularly wrong. Sometimes of course, that produces something really promising but mostly it means going back to the drawing board and starting again. Unfortunately that sort of approach is more suited to an artist with hours and hours to while away pottering in the studio – and that’s certainly not me. So I’ve just lost a weeks work.
Anyhow, Salisbury surpassed itself yesterday with a really successful project. An old pub garden, a (very) old Rasta guy making jerk chicken on the barbie, a good band, plenty of sunshine and a whole bunch of teenagers painting furiously in the Salisbury Paint Off. Thirteen to Twenty five year olds paid £5 for a big canvas, some paints and markers and a few hours to paint a prize winning artwork. And what an atmosphere! It was such a success it looks like it will become an annual event so hats off to the organisers.
