Val Jones BA Hons Way to go??
After the Degree Show I expected to suffer a feeling of anticlimax so to avert this I planned a trip to Catterline to see where Joan Eardley lived and painted. It successfully kick-started my post-uni work with a plein-air painting of Bamburgh Castle, sketches of people on a beach in Sunderland and a vivid green painting of the Catterline cliffs with Eardleys hunckered-down cottages on a sunlit,misty skyline. a magical visit !
But – the anticlimax was simply delayed and now I feel very alone with no fellow-students to share a coffee and a chat about the work. The dreaded ‘net-working’ and search for an outlet, a residency; a project has to begin. Where to start???
