Since my last entry I have started a traditional Indian painting course on which I am learning how to make a devotional painting, depicting one of the many Hindu gods. My teacher has a good 20 years experience, he studied in Chennai for 5 years and followed his study up with life in an Ashram, where he continued his training for a further 3 years. He is only a comparatively young man (at 36) but he is one of the most focused and sincere artists I have met anywhere. In my first painting I am concentrating on the god Shiva, who is part of the equivalent of the Holy Trinity here.. (Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu).
I am currently looking for a buddhist monk whom I have heard about. He lives somewhere in the maze of streets in Mysore (where I am resident at the moment). I want to ask for classes in traditional Buddhist painting, too.
You can probably see where this is going, another expedition of finding common denominators that highlight and affirm culture and faith groups’s in familiarities..
My next exhibition will be in St. Luke’s Church in Liverpool, situated on Leece Street which is at the top of Bold Street. This place is an unmissable landmark.
My show will be resonably humble, as I am still in India, I can not imagine that I will be able to make use of the space in a way that I would most like, to.
I hope that I get another opportunity next year to make a large installation within the walls of this bombed out relic..
