WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!
I’m beginning a new project inspired by The Ebb Tide, a short novel that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote together with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne in his late years. Yesterday I received a bunch of books I had ordered for my research including a biography of Stevenson by Claire Harman. As you do with biographical books...
STRANGE ART FOR A STRANGE PLACE
It’s been quite a few weeks since I opened my installation in Majorca and I can now look back at it with some perspective: it’s got to be the strangest project I’ve ever done. I certainly didn’t set out to do anything weird but you don’t get to do a project for an olive oil...
THE SIMPLE SEA
I was rummaging through endless files on my computer this morning, looking for some images I need and can’t find and came across an image I don’t need but haven’t looked at for years. That of a sculpture called Mar (Sea) that I made as a student, must have been 1997. I look...
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
A Studio With a View is a year old today! I’ve never been very good with birthday parties, save Harold Pinter’s extraordinary play and Nick Cave’s gothic rock band. I’ve had an excellent time writing about art and books and music and other things I like to waste my time with, and would...
NEXT STOP MIAMI!
In 1972 Olivier Messiaen travelled around the American West in search for inspiration for Des canyons aux étoiles, the composition he was working on to a commission to celebrate the bicentenary of the United States Declaration of Independence. Last year I began working on a painting and sculpture project inspired by Messiaen’s music...
FLAMENCO FROM THE OTHER SIDE
Yesterday I had the chance to go to an outdoor concert by guitarist Daniel Casares in the Andalusian town of Estepona. Casares is the flamenco musician and composer I created a painting performance for some months back which went on stage in the French city of Sens (I wrote about it here and...
CONTEMPORARY SPANISH ART?
The last twenty years have been a real revolution for contemporary art in Spain with art centres sprouting up all over the country, some of them in surprisingly small or remote locations, and new generations of artists surprising the previous with radically new outlooks and focuses on Spain’s artistic reality. In Madrid, serious...
LOOKING WEST!
My exhibition in Seville has just come to an end but I’m now fascinated by a joint project that has arisen from it totally unexpectedly though it feels as though it has always been there, like it had to happen sooner or later: Part of my project will be exhibited this week in...
GALLERY TIME / HORA DE GALERÍA
The chaos in my studio has finally come to an end and my new project, “Of Canyons and Stars” is packed and ready to travel to the gallery in Seville where it will be on show as from Thursday 23rd of May (opening 20:00). “Of Canyons and Stars” is a project based on...
ON STAGE!!
Here’s a video of an excerpt of the flamenco concert by guitarist Daniel Casares, which I wrote about in a post last week, where he is accompanied by ‘cantaor’ (flamenco singer) Juan Murube, ‘bailaor’ (flamenco dancer) Sergio Aranda, contemporary dancer María José Villar and myself. Though it’s only my hands you can see as...
FLAMENCO PAINTING / PINTURA FLAMENCA
Working as an artist can be many things but it is never boring. Art, specially if you consider it in a wider sense, brings you together with people from very different backgrounds all searching to be moved and inspired or to move and inspire. Even so I have to confess I didn’t see...
ON PAINTING
Two paintings from my project The Life and Times of Ernest Ka’ai will be on show as from tomorrow and until the 7th of July at the CAAM art centre in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, as part of the exhibition On Painting; an ambitious exhibition made up of works...
All schools should be art schools.
