Friday 14 April 2023

I always enjoy Emily Patrick's exhibitions - and wish I could buy something - and this afternoon's visit felt like a breath of the spring that we ought to be having instead of this cold, icy rain. This painting is called Gentle Light on Windowsill ... which had me pondering about how the artist's eye finds beauty in the mundane - because it's actually the top of the cistern in the artist's cloakroom. Guess Top of the Cistern doesn't really hack it as a title!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks so much for the alert to this exhibition. I should dearly love to go but sadly can’t get down from here (Merseyside) to see it just now. My daughter in London will go. We both have prints of Emily Patrick’s gorgeously unruly tulips. My daughter received an invitation plus some lovely free postcards, but I didn’t . Perhaps it was decided I was too far north and I suppose they were right.
To return to our recent exchange about the confusion of two versions of Gwen John’s painting: A Corner of the Artist’s Room in Paris, I subsequently came across a blog page from Sheffield Hallam University advertising a series of lectures about works from Museums Sheffield under the title Gravity 2020. One of the lectures was a discussion of GJ’s painting to be given in Feb 2020 and guess what …. they had put the wrong painting up and were displaying the painting from Cardiff. I wonder if there were any red faces on the night.
As a matter of interest, I’d love to know how you got on with And So Did I by Malachi Whitaker. Is it a memoir? I’ve read some excellent short stories by her, and now I see Persephone have picked her up.

Cornflower said...

I love her work!

Mary said...

There were lots of lovely postcards at the gallery - so maybe your daughter will pick some up for you, Anonymous. I think you have to sign up on the mailing list/visitors' book to get them in the post. I always enjoy Emily Patrick's shows - several paintings I'd love to have taken home with me.
I won't feel too bad about getting my Gwen Johns muddled if the curators do too!
I found the Malachi Whitaker memoir rather dull, to be honest - with a religious thread running through it that is very much not me. I'd seen good reviews of the short stories and this was in the library - but although I read it quite recently, I can't recall it very clearly - just that I didn't care for it.

Pam said...

The top of my bathroom cistern would look much more mundane than that!

Mary said...

Not much glamour to mine, either, Pam!