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Visiting Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Royal Academia of Arts is like traveling to another world. First of all, you feel like a child, you have the urge to touch everything!  Of course it is not possible because all the sculptures are very fragile, but it put you into an anxiety state because the longing of getting inside the wax, or to jump and throw yourself into some objects is indeed very strong. Well at least it was on me...  Of course I have to accept that I am very impulsive :) So it transports you through time, because you feel childish and happy...  some objects seems mathematic layouts that definitively are playing with TIME, like "Hive", which looks like a time machine that will hoover you into another dimension.  "It is an object that forms itself as a skin" and "emphasize inside and ouside: Courbet's L'Origine du monde". Besides "Hive" that I think was the piece that impressed me the most... I loved the mirror room, and...

On Wednesday November 25th, 2009 will take place a fine art auction at Mealy's Auctioneers in Castlecomer.  I was invited to participate... so again I am exhibiting in Ireland :) ---- El próximo 25 de Noviembre del presente tendrá lugar una subaste de arte en la casa de subastas Mealy's en Castlecomer.  Me invitaron a participar... así que continuo exhibiendo en Irlanda :)

These Autumn days I have been overwhelmed by the beauty of some trees. I should admit that I really have a passion for trees... I have made a B.A. in Architecture, but as soon as I could I worked doing something else. Architecture was never my passion but maybe if I had linked Architecture and Trees, if I had studied Landscape Architecture my story would be different... Anyway I don't regret it because now I am a painter! Today I made a sketch of a fantastic thin tree, the trunk and branches were ebony black and the few orange leaves that still remain looked like shivering butterflies... it was a long time that I haven't experience anything prettier. The tree I saw today was very much like Schiele's tree. Therefore I posted that fantastic painting here. And now I would like to write briefly about love... Yesterday I read a very complex and interesting essay from V. about love: Del Amor and in one of the comments "Iluminaciones" wrote about a painter that paint...

Or should I better say My "tiny" London Studio :) I finally have finished to set up my small studio at home. It is very small and it won't allowed me to do the big canvases I enjoyed so much to do (as in Ireland), but it is a start. I have to realized that it is not easy to change country, here I am starting and I must be humble. Although it is very small it is very cozy and has a fantastic view, because just in front of my place there is a wonderful park with pond, castle and even deers :) The only thing that still worries me about painting in my own place besides the smell, is that I would have to be clean. Don't misunderstand me, I am a clean person, my children even say that I am a bit of neat freak :))) but absolutely not when I am painting... when I paint I forgot everything that is around me and I know I finished with paint on my hair, my face and all the place around it! I think I will have to cover the place with plastic each time I start having fun :) -...

I am now one of the members of the Hesketh Hubbard Art Society, and I am starting to make life drawing again. It feels sooo good. Life Drawing is in my opinion one of the most pleasant things a human being can do, it is very different from Painting. Painting is such a huge art... (and of course is relative, yet not always is art) but you are creating and that has to deal with a huge amount of challenge and yes, sometimes you suffer. But in Life drawing you only have "to grasp" what is in front of your eyes... it is therefore more relaxing, less pretentious, it is a meditation that could take you to a great level of Mindfulness, of time, of space, of the present... ------- Soy miembro ahora de la Hesketh Hubbard Art Society, y estoy empezando a dibujar con modelo de nuevo. Se siente taaan bien. El dibujo con modelo es en mi opinión una de las actividades que más placer nos pueden dar. Es muy diferente de pintar. Pintar es un arte enorme... (y es claro relativo, ya que no si...

Finalmente ya estoy conectada! Sí recién nos instalaron internet y teléfono y ya puedo de nuevo postear y escribir a los amigos lontanos que extraño tanto. Y mi conexión es en todos los aspectos ya que finalmente después de muchos meses de total inactividad artística (sentía que moría) ya por fin retomé los pinceles y eso me da vida de nuevo! ------- Finally I am connected! Yes, Internet and phone was just installed in the new flat and now I am able to post and write to the faraway friends who are so much missed. And my connection is in all senses, because after many months of art inactivity (I feel I was dying) I was recently able to pick up the brushes again, I am again alife!