20/02/2008 by admin.

I like music and I like the visual arts. Yesterday I saw two of the current exhibitions at Tate Britain, Peter Doig was one and the Camden Group the other. On the whole I enjoyed Doig rather better since although certain aspects of the Camden Group are historically interesting I find the art somewhat unsettling - I think because it was created in a time of great social injustice and insufferable prudery. Doig is also disturbing but in altogether a different way in that he opens your eyes to aspects of landscape that are reminiscent of situations in which you might have found yourself, for instance in large open spaces or in other-worldly lighting on an apparently ordinary day. See them both if you like painting. I am a member of the Tate as I know many of you are. One of the staff told me there are 80,000 of us now.

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20/02/2008 by admin.

This is a personal blog in that it is a diary of things that happen or occur to me. Some of them will relate to the associated website and some of them will not. It isn’t meant to be a monologue though - feel free to comment on anything you agree or disagree with or if it reminds you of something that happened to you. If YOU have a blog let me know the URL so I can link to it from here, that is if you really want people to read your blog as I do.I have told you something about myself (under About, of course) and my family just so you can make sense of some of the family things I might mention.

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