Showing posts with label Liverpool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liverpool. Show all posts

Friday, April 08, 2016

Two Jamaican Girls



Two Jamaican Girls - Augustus John 1937

This painting is in The Walker Gallery, Liverpool, UK.
It seems to shout across the room "Come look at me!"

Wyndham Lewis describes the artist, Augustus John, as:

‘a great man of action into whose hands the fairies had placed a paintbrush instead of a sword’.

If you are in Liverpool a visit to The Walker Gallery is a 'must do' - do it!

Paul Conneally
April 2016

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Thursday, April 07, 2016

One Hundred Men

Paul Conneally Little Onion Haiku Haibun

We take my mum and dad, both in their eighties, to Liverpool for a couple of days. My mum has wanted to see Anthony Gormley's 'Another Place' for a long time. A cold, windy and wild day at Crosby beach. Together we watch the tide go out, slowly revealing one hundred metal statues, casts of Gormley himself, naked, looking out to sea.

blowing its horn
the ferry heads west 
mating gulls

Little Onion



Photograph: Paul Conneally, Crosby, April 2016
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