“I had my freedom and that was nice”

an exhibit of twombly (and Poussin's) work at the

Dulwich Picture Gallery has just started

lot's of interesting things on cy twombly here:

http://www.theartstory.org/artist-twombly-cy.htm

ILLUSIONIST

I saw Sylvain Chomet's 'The Illusionist' earlier which was so so nice. I particularly liked the ventriloquist with his mini-me dummy, but couldn't find a picture.

I wandered around the Bridget Riley mini exhibition at the National Gallery after, which opened today funnily enough. Any excuse to sit in front of some Hogarth and 'an experiment on a bird in the air pump' for a while. I also discovered Pontormo, whose figures are like little jewels or quality sweet wrappers. Lovely day.

Old Friends

IDOLS

"Rose & Meta Rothery , farm managers near Cowra. Rose (on right) paints finely detailed imagery upon river rocks . Amongst my collection Cathy Freeman is my favourite. A portrait of Elvis Presley won a commendable mention at the Carcoar Show."

Karl Schwerdtfeger photo and description from his website: www.karlphotographer.com/