Hibernation

I have been quiet on the blogging front as I have been focused on my new job for the last few months. My own output has slowed to an almost a halt, but the ideas have been ticking over or growing from one to the other and not stopping. Also practicing with new software and getting to grips in how it is used in the new part of the print industry, where I work.

I have found myself going back to my interest in comics and graphic novels. Starting to work on some drawings for some of my gaming friends and developing cover ideas. One of the big projects, is to work on a graphic novel or more likely novella. More a case of doing it rather than creating a great bit of literature or drawing. Again it has paused, so my writing about it inception, I am hoping to begin to up the current pace.

After my 'lost year' I have trying to control costs, so have not been out much or into London to see many new exhibitions. I am looking for to go and see the Paul Nash at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Nash is one those Neo-Romantic painters of the mid-century British artists, who has had to be defined by this grouping. I would say that this grouping is a short hand for critical studies. These painters - Paul Nash, John Nash, Graham Sutherland, Vaughan, Armitage, Ayrton are not a cohesive grouping as others or whether they would claim such an idea.

Another exhibition I am looking forward to seeing is Henry Moore at the Tate Britain. Like Graham Sutherland, Moore's reputation has suffered since his death. It has been fashionable to consider Barbara Hepworth more important than Moore, but in my Art College days Moore was like a giant on the landscape. One of the reasons, I feel I can relate to his work is the relationship to the northern landscape. Rocky crags staggered onto the horizon line, not complete ranges or outcrops dug into the hillside half finished or abandoned villages from the industrial age.

This year, I hope to get to some museums and galleries that I have not seen. So watch this space!