Normal service is resumed!

Normal service is resumed! I had to find and move house after the Berlin trip and three months just passed me by in a whirlwind of boxes and numerous phone calls trying to get my internet connected again. So I am now settling into life in a small town after 22 years in a small village with nothing more than a school, pub and church. It feels so strange to be uprooted and anonymous after knowing everyone around you, in a village you feel as if you belong there you are part of a small community. Here I just live.....but I hope in time it will feel like a home.
Since then I have visited the Lowry gallery in Manchester always good to see traditional work, I find some of his works quite dark and mysterious I don`t think we know the full story there.  
Also visited the Yorkshire sculpture park to see the brilliant Joan Miro exhibition, great to see sculpture outdoors as Miro said "where it should be" and I must admit I agree. 
I was lucky enough to visit Florence in June, it was so so hot 34 degrees is not a comfortable heat to walk around in, I melted faster than the delicious Gelato and Sorbets. I feel bad complaining as it is so grey, wet and miserable here in the UK. How much more rain can we have?
Florence is a beautiful city full of history and art it is incredible and the light is so intense it illuminates everything.

It was a surprise to find Antony Gormley`s rusty iron figures in San Gimignano as I have been researching his work but had not expected to see them here it was a complete but fabulous coincidence, I was so excited !

 It is great seeing them at eye level standing still in quiet contemplation, solid immovable and  the presence of the artist is there in the shape of the body and the visible traces of  making.

Standing on the top of a 13th century bell tower, what a vantage point......

Mingle quietly with the crowds and some dont even notice you are there.... anonymous

Life goes on around you in a fast paced hustle and bustle, sometimes it is good to stop and look around you.




 A visit to see Michaelangelo`s renowned David and the Arte Torna Arte (Art returns to art) at the Galleria Dell` Accademia  was a fantastic opportunity to see the 42 inspirational works of 32 contemporary artists alongside traditional worldwide recognised artworks. Antony Gormley casts in concrete are in the foreground of this official picture and Louise Bourgeois`s gold "Arch of Hysteria" is on the top left. There is a strict NO photograph policy in the gallery....but watch this space! 
For more information : http://www.uffizi.firenze.it/en/mostre/mostra.php?t=4f4d1e94f1c3bc8c09000000

 ARTE TORNA ARTE, GALLERIA DELL'ACCADEMIA, FLORENCE, ITALY, 2012 

Arte Torna Arte (Art returns to art)  The title Arte torna arte is the same as the one Luciano Fabro - one of the best-known artists on the Italian scene who died in 2007 - chose for a collection of his writings and of lectures and talks given between 1981 and 1997 at universities, academies and museums in various parts of the world. Adopting this expression as the title of the exhibition is a mark of agreement with his idea of art as a continuum that renews and regenerates itself, drawing strength from itself and from its own history. Arte torna arte proposes examples of artists who in their works have looked to history, to the masterpieces of the past, making use of their iconography, reworking their ideas and assuming a responsibility that has not yet been exhausted and a sense of belonging that has no bounds, but that finds expression in languages rich in interpretative possibilities.
Far too many photographs to put on here but I had a fabulous time what an experience, now it is back to the real world and thoughts of new work for my final year!