Visiting The Courtauld Gallery, London

The Courtauld Gallery

Being Out and about in London I sometimes find I have a spear hour or two to spend visiting a show or gallery, although this dose not seam to happen anywhere often enough, that said a few weeks ago I found just an opportunity to do just this.

We were meeting some friends in town but got to spend a while in The Courtauld Gallery which I have to say is always worth the time. Situated in Somerset House just off the Strand which in-itself is well worth the time and trouble of visiting for the art and cafes that are housed there.

However I degrees, we popped into The Courtauld to see the temporary exhibition that was on at the time... PETER LELY: A LYRICAL VISION and  THE DRAUGHTSMAN AND HIS COLLECTION  Sir Peter Lely the often forgotten 17th century artist at the court of Charles II was brilliant and well worth the time.

Then a whistle stop tour of the collection of world famous art that spans from the early Renaissance to the 20th century with a particularly fantastic impressionist collection that includes some very famous paintings by Cezanne, Van Gogh but for me seeing some of Kadinsy early works was brilliant too.

So if you get the time and happen to be around the Strand area of London I can highly recommend taking the time to check out Courtauld Gallery find them on your iPhone with this address

The Courtauld Gallery

Somerset House, 

Strand, London

WC2R 0RN

www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery 

The Life of an artist

My life is like most artists (I think) is filled with huge emotional ups and downs. Being torn by success and the failures, frustrated by a seaming lack of control and self-belief. Today I feel modern artists and painters are blessed in many ways by the internet and the instant access this offers to the whole world of art. You can paint and within hours the image can be viewed on the other side of the world by an individual that you might never  have meet and who might never have know about you.  Wow the sheer power of that is in its self staggering and despite feeling that I am only a small part of this instantaneous world of communications I have a part to play which is of real value to me and I hope to others too.

Image then how I felt when the very tool I use to access the incredible frontier began to fail.. Slowing down, crashing, reducing my ability to get online. I did every thing I could to solve the problem but the virus had got deep into the system and refused to budge. When I finally got my PC back from the computer doctor, I was distressed to find that every program or application had to be removed to solve the problem. This computer is my life line, every word, image and file is stored on the hard drive and my deepest fear was that I would not be able to recover the valuable information on the hard drive. 

Thankfully most of my work, images and file’s  are saved but sadly not all, in some cases I must start again from scratch and the loss of months of hard work, planning and study is for me a personal disaster leaving me teetering at a emotional brink that I am only just starting to pull back from. I must apologise to all of you who follow me for the delay in making any post for the past few weeks and hope that your understanding and support will encourage and uplift me.  Thank you for contributing to this community I deeply appreciate your valuable time as I realise that all comments allow us to learn from our mistakes and build on our successes