RA

Everything Meets Here

I have decided to tell you about the last 2 days over 2 days! I have had 2 really lovely days and am now exhausted! On Sunday we went to the Royal Academy to see the Summer exhibition, which I love. It is such an amazing mixture of art all collected into one place. One minute you are looking at landsacpes and another, very strange modern art. Some by very famous artists and some by artists who paint at home for pleasure. It is difficult to take it all in and I would love to go back again this year. 

I chose 4 pieces of art that I loved this year and would have liked to take home, interestingly they were all different price brackets. 

Ken Howard 

1. Sarah at Oriel by Ken Howard. I can't find a picture of this on the internet but interestingly I loved a painting by him last year too. He is a member of the RA and paints using lots of light.This is another of his paintings on the right.If I had bought his Sarah painting it would have cost £50,000. 
2. Tour de Force by Lisa Takahashi. A linocut showing cyclists working hard up a hill. It so reminds me of the sky boys as they cycle out in front of the peloton and I love it. This would have cost £215 to buy.
3. Everything Meets Here by Jessie Brennan. This is a pencil drawing with SO much detail, an amazing amount of work. The people are so tiny. You can look at it in detail here http://art.tfl.gov.uk/project/9479/jessie-brennan. This would cost £7,200 

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   Tour De Force

After our visit to the RA we had planned a picnic but it was just too cold. So we had lunch in the RA which was very lovely. We then went over to the V&A to see the Popularity painting which was painted of music hall artists and includes my great grandmother. If you remember she was Bella of the act Bella and Bijou. It was so loevly to ee it in real life. It is a large vibrant painting. I am so glad it is being seen. I really wanted to tell the people that were looking at it that it was of my great grandmother!
Yesterday was Chloe's 24th birthday and we went to Woburn Abby Safari Park. We had a wonderful day - more details tomorrow! 

This week - recovering from the busy weekend and preparing for next weekend! Chloe gets her results on Friday, we have our Womens breakfast at church on Saturday morning and Paul is singing in a big concert  on Saturday evening. Then on Sunday we are having a family party for Chloe. It's all go!!!!

Popularity Painting