With a definate lack of exhibition time this year (Covid-19) and the Hampshire Art Trail more or less curtailed I was excited to see that Angela Perrett had decided to open her studio for 2 weeks in August, giving me the chance to visit Hillview Studio in Linwood, New Forest. I love this venue, and go every year. There is an amazing garden to wander around with an array of sculptures, glasswork and iron work. In three gallery spaces several artists display ceremics, paintings, prints, textiles etc..
With viewing of artwork limited over the past few months to the internet, television and books, it was lovely to be able to engage and examine art works in the ‘real world’, and the comments from my tutor about seeing artwork ‘in the flesh’ resonate more now than they ever did before. I found that I now examined some of the works on display more closely, drawn into the emotion of the work and the message it conveyed through my own personal interpretation.
The painting that really caught my eye ‘Jazz Interlude – Daphne Speight – Acrylic’. As a jazz fan, this abstract work imagined the era of ‘be-bop’: colourful and almost ‘in your face’, fast beats, tempos and improvisation, to me the Punk of Jazz, an abstract work for an abstract genre of music.
I see piano, saxaphone, double bass, guitar, chords and a coming together of everything in music that makes you want to celebrate, bash about on the piano keys and strum on the guitar frets. Turn this worke 90 degrees clockwise and I see music being blown up into the air from the the end of the saxaphone or trumpet, an explosion of sound.
Which way to hang it on the wall I ask myself?
I feel so emotionally charged and excited! – I want to shout and jump up and down, run on the spot. Maybe months of isolation are having an effect on my thinking process, a release from lockdown but whatever, I’m enjoying this piece of art, bright and colourful, it has the ability to take you on a journey in all directions as the eye suits.
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