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Head-space returns

3/11/2013

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Just recently life has seemed full of stuff needing done by yesterday.  There were things I wanted to write about - exhibitions, great days out, glorious weather, usual stuff - but right there and then my mind felt too worn to bother.  Daft, really, but how it was.

However, I think I'm just about out of that phase now.  I've got past the book fair, I've finished the 25 prints for this year's 20:20, my head is starting to function again.  Alright, there's still the sort of the 20:20 to go, but that's a group activity - it can get quite pressured, but it's fun too.  Though goodness knows how we'll find the space to sort - still, again, that's a group problem.

So.  A fortnight ago (already) I took a week down south, and the weather promised terrible but then delivered pretty good, which, if the forecast is going to be wrong, is the way round you want it.  I trod the usual deep grooves on my first trip into Bath, and on the second, having no particular end in view, took a much shallower groove right along Walcot Street.  It promotes itself as a street full of independent, artisanal traders, and more or less delivers on that while also not feeling ultra hip'n'trendy or crafted into being. It's shabby here and there but (in a good way) not what you'd call chic.  So I wandered along having a lovely, relaxed, sunny time, discovering a set of new local-trader-inspired (ok, so they're a bit self-regarding, but hey) and old gargoyles here    
and a previously unspotted wall advert there (actually that was a bit beyond Walcot Street)
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as well as discovering and rediscovering all sorts of other interesting ventures.  I also found information about an exhibition I would like to visit but won't (although at least for practical reasons, like it being 200 miles away and not on for long enough) and a new (to me, at least) small-shop-sized gallery (Lane House Arts) showcasing work by Zsolt Dudas.  And I popped in to see an exhibition at Walcot Chapel - it is purely an exhibition space these days, set back from Walcot Street in a little oasis of calm.   It's a lovely spot, sun-dappled gravestones and all. 
On show were two artists, Kitty Hillier - whose work is acrylics painted on plywood, chiselled back to reveal the interior -  and Fiona Campbell, a sculptor using wire, copper and other materials.  The artists went well together, with a shared strand of the natural world running through their work.  My favourite title was one of Kitty's - Some Days are Darker than Others.  Yup, ain't that the truth.   
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    I make prints and book arts, though nowhere near as often as I'd like - no good reason, just an inability to get on with things.  I occasionally go on about landscape (with which I am mildly obsessed) and various of its elements, and I like to pass comment on exhibitions I visit.

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