The Inbetween Saturday...Stations of the Cross

Raffael painted ..."The Deposition of Christ"

A graissaille.

It's sort of the inbetween day in Easter Week.

Not Easter Sunday celebration 

Not Holy Friday and sorrow...

The day the disciples may have spent either hiding or crying.

I would have!

When I was still at Wirral Art College...Birkenhead..I chose Raffael's graissaille of the Deposition for a transcription.

I had been to Florence with a dear friend Ann ..and we went as did most tourists to The Uffizzi Galleries. This was not there!..but inspired by the renaissance art I saw and encouraged by our tutor...Ed...I took charcoal, inks, boot polish and paint and poured my heart into my interpretation of Raffael.

It hangs now mainly out of sight on a high wall in Penketh.

Today is the day I think of his mother taking him down off the cross.

Maybe dark times today... but a light to come.

Keep hopeful.

Irrelevancies

I saw this quote from the Times at the weekend.  Tutor to Paloma Faith [singer], " The medium in which you express yourself is irrelevant. What is important is what you are trying to say." 

When I was at college working towards my B.A. in Fine Art, my struggle was to narrow down the ideas coming from my butterfly mind.
Whether to paint or collage, to use ceramics, installation art or performance.

Then as now the theme running through it all was, the human race on the edge. A place that I knew so well growing up, edge where sea meets land. A very edgy place yet also comforting in the eternal movement of time and tide. I have always been a gatherer of stuff thrown up by the waves. These are often bits thrown overboard, abandoned then changed by the water and salt and continual movement of wind and weather.

These pieces of work are the result of my years of looking and making. they are often a statement of relationships and family trauma and joy.                                                                  

                                 

              

       Sometimes they are just themselves!  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Together they make a statement about life and family and all those ordinary things that are really 

extra-ordinary!