I studied for a BA fine art degree at The Wirral Met ...
...five years as a mature student...
...did'nt finish it, but after five years I felt I had some understanding of what it didn't mean!!
However during that time I collected some cartoons that were published each weekend in one of the papers....by Psillos...a Greek artist working in fashion and political cartoons.
The papers got filed in a folder in my studio and there they have been ..on the shelf with all the other arty stuff I've accumulated since 1999.
Until this week.
We were up at the bay house and the weather as you know was fierce...
...so no walking for us.
It only took a couple of hours and a pot of wallpaper paste and we clad an old wall outside the room at very top of the house under the eaves we call ...
"The Club Room "
A wall at the top of the stairs and above it in the space made watertight by the builders last year.
...a painting of the seagulls that nest in our tall chimneys.
... the collage really brightens up the space..
...with a great smiling mouth in the middle!...
Some information about Psillos....
I'm planning another wall...I have lots of cartoons left still...but the clay man doesn't know that yet.
Keeping it as a surprise for his March birthday!!
paulatim
Such vibrant colours Gerry. Brought back happy memories for me of almost fifty years ago. My son, then in his mid teens, complained that his bedroom was a bit dull, so one morning, when he had gone off to sixth form, I 'papered' the whole of the alcove where his bed fitted with papers cut from magazines - pop stars of the day, seascapes, anything he loved. I can still hear the gasp when he went into his bedroom that evening when he came back home.
ReplyDeletethat is just grand Pat...I really want to do the wall into the kitchen..a narrow passage with very little light...some more cartoons I think..much love..G. x
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