Brewery Arts Centre
The Monday following a well attended preview of the show, I received a telephone call from the Brewery. Did I know that one of my diary paintings had been damaged? A technician had observed an L shaped rip in the canvas and had removed it from the wall. When I realised which painting they were talking about I assured them that was how it was when I had hung it, damaged from a falling slate in the studio fire.
Putting up a show is usually like having a book published in that by the time it comes out in print, the next one is underway and the publication is history. With this show it was still work in progress with the final post and stone drilled to the wall. It had to be removed when we were ready to get to our final swim at the compass point of the circle, back where we started at Blea Tarn.
When I removed it towards the end of the exhibition I left a photograph of what it had been. No one observed me taking it down and I left with it in my bag ready for the last stage.
Paul
