The day is gone Nita had told me about this exhibition and Simon had also heard about it. We met Deborah and Neil there. The headset was free and took the story of one day of an artist in Berlin in 1925. Here are some of the paintings. Zero Hour On May 8 1945, zero …
Category Archives: Uncategorized
38 Carly Works out how to annualise and go part-time
Carly is getting on a bit and is thinking about that next stage. She is finding the rigours and demands of coming in at the weekends and being on call overnight taking its toll. She can do it and she does keep up to date but maybe now is the time to glide down with …
Continue reading “38 Carly Works out how to annualise and go part-time”
37 Carly Marks the 4th September
Carly has decided she is going to make Aliyah on the 4th September 2023. Making Aliyah is the process for Jews from anywhere in the world to ‘go up’ to live in Israel as a citizen. Carly has chosen this particular date for a number of reasons. It is a Monday which is the first …
Playing around with some more Barbies
Barbies twizzle around on a chandelier Galina gave me a cream chandelier she found. I keep meaning to throw it out. But today was the day. With three Barbies slotted into the bulb socket and a candle where the electrics are housed hung from a hook in my ceiling. Barbie is released from the golden …
36 Carly Shifts to the Stow
Carly had really enjoyed living in Highbury. And, for her, there was no reason to move. But her landlady wanted to move in and no amount of crying, remonstrating or other tricks by Carly to get her to change her mind resulted in Carly’s desired outcome. Staying in Highbury was no longer an option. And …
35 Sometimes Carly Finds It Tricky to Follow the Rules
Even, and maybe especially, in a pandemic, Carly can find it troublesome to follow all the rules. Partly because the rules, she thinks, are silly or don’t really apply to her. They are really more like guidelines. One, in particular, is the wearing of masks. Carly is a doctor and has been able to work …
Continue reading “35 Sometimes Carly Finds It Tricky to Follow the Rules”
City Factory Sculpture Exhibition
Ruth who had encouraged and allowed me to set up the Jaffa Port repair cafe, told me about City Factory run by artist Itamar. He wanted to showcase over 4000 sculptures made from discarded toys. He wanted anyone over the age of 15 to drop in at his site next to the Barby music venue …
The Barbie Dog Walkers
Germaine gave me a square large frame and I painted it with a lilac/purple spray paint. Then I decided to use the snowflake as stencils for the black sky, wispy leaves to represent branches for the large middle grey section and for interest as a resist in the white section at the bottom I used …
Art at Amiad Gallery December 2025
I love the open exhibitions here. Here are photos of the ones I liked the most!
Barbies on Gold
I found 4 A4 canvases in the UK. Michael C brought out three and one was a painting Betsy had from Georgia which came on my shipment. I had 4 spray paints but the fullest was the gold. Simple. Spray them all gold. Oh and a pringles pot. And Lucy gave me a frame for …