Soaring Flight

Peter Lanyon's Gliding Paintings

High Ground 56
Essence of St Ives school

Silent Coast 57
Refinements of water/sea

Calm Air 61
Purity of white domination
Red = glider

Freed by gliding to revisit his whole native landscape

Long Shore 62
Aqua palette

Soaring Flight 60
Capturing sensation and physical look in abstract expressionist painting

Moving viewpoint related to multiple viewpoint of Cubism

North East 63
Aerial view of airfield and coast
Vertiginous

Rosewall 60 Ulster Museum Belfast
1st gliding painting (after start of training)
Sky not at top but all round framing the land

Gliding paintings first shown in 1960 solo exhib London

Star Spot #544

Toby Jones
Savoy Theatre

Van at Nell's 19/12/15

1 Celtic swing
Sack O Woe
2 motherless child
3 carrying a torch
Wild Night
4 sometimes we cry
5 think twice before you go
6 take your hand outta my pockets
Keep It Simple
7 whenever God shines his light *
8 in the afternoon/Burn Baby Burn  ***
9 baby please don't go/Parchman Farm/Don't Start Crying Now *
10 i'm not feeling it no more
11 brown eyed girl 
12 Gloria 
(no encore)

Paul Moran (Keyboards/musical director)
Dave Keary (Guitar)
Paul Moore (Bass)
Bobby Ruggiero (Drums) [Las Vegas] - met him outside afterwards
Dana Masters (Vocals)

Nell's Jazz & Blues with Una & Neil T (3rd time I've seen him at Nell's)
front row, 4 feet from the man

StarSpots #533

Frank Skinner
Esther Rantzen

Vue Leicester Square
Star Wars
17/12/15

Creative Accounting #610

The Hateful 8 = Stagecoach + Agatha Christie + Key Largo

Creative Accounting #611

The Big Short = The Wolf of Wall St + American Hustle

Creative Accounting #612

Steve Carell / The Big Short = Joe Pesci / Good Fellas

StarSpot #688

Paddy Considine - BAFTA 14/12/15

Religion v Spirituality

Religion in essence is a form of mythology, at its best addressing spirituality, morality/ethics and social responsibility.

Proselytising religion is a cancer. Religion should be private. Children would be better taught spirituality, morality/ethics and social responsibility, and no religion until they are young adults, say 16.

The Waterboys at The Roundhouse, London on Tuesday 3rd February 2015

Modern Blues tour

with Eddie McCaffrey

1 Destinies entwined

2 Girl like Johnny

3 glastonbury song

4 rosalind you married wrong man

5 nearest thing to hip

6 whole of the moon

7 bang the drum *

8 Long Strange Golden road ***

encore

9 purple rain

10 how long will I love you?

11 fishermens blues

6 piece band

Destinies Entwined

Still a Freak

November Tale

A Girl Called Johnny

Glastonbury Song

The Girl Who Slept for Scotland

Rosalind (You Married the Wrong Guy)

The Three Day Man

Beautiful Now

Nearest Thing to Hip

I Can See Elvis

The Whole of the Moon

Don't Bang the Drum

Long Strange Golden Road

Encore:

Purple Rain

How Long Will I Love You?

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys - The Colosseum, Watford 5/12/15

with JRT
Modern Blues - 2nd time for me

1 Destinies Entwined
2 Boy Like Johnny *
3 (blood)

4 Nearest Thing to Hip
5 Rosalind
6 Glastonbury Song (Just Found Love) *

7 Roll over Beethoven
8 Wandering Aengis **
9 The return of Jimi Hendrix *

10 Bang the Drum
11 Whole of the Moon
12 Long Strange Golden Road *

Encores:
13 Fisherman's Blues
How Long Will I Love You? (?)
14 Purple Rain

15 Medicine Bowl
16 Still a Freak

Band of 6: Mike Scott, Steve Wykham, Brother Paul (Brown) on organ *, young Austin Texas guitarist, Alabama bassist Dave Hood of the Muscle Shoals Swampers, London drummer (Ralph Salmins?).

Creative Accounting # 531

The Waterboys = Bob Dylan + Hothouse Flowers

Creative Accounting # 530

Youth = Grand Hotel Budapest + Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Auerbach

Self-portrait 58 charcoal & chalk

Head of EOW2 61

Studio w Fig on Bed 2 66

Primrose Hill Summer 68
Original palette - yel red grn

Reclining Hd of JYM 75

Looking Twds Mornington Cres sta 72**
Beautiful colour combo - orange grn yel

Hd of JYM 2 84/5 **
Japan intro
Cf Bacon
Dynamism

selfP 2014
Graphite
Minimal
Cf Schiele

Cf Bomberg
Eg Hamp Rd summer haze 2010

EOW SAW JJW in the Gdn 1 1963
Domestic epic
Unusual palette

Cf Bomberg
Bacon
Kossoff

Try some Auerbachs


Complex angles on head

Por of Cath Lampert 81/2 *
Grn yel
Features punch out of mass of paint


Expressionist

Cf Monet
Dedication to particular views & places

Camden Town red captured

Creative Accounting # 529

Francois Cluzet / Tell No One X Dustin Hoffman / Marathon Man = running

Creative Accounting # 528

Rooney Mara / Carol = Audrey Hepburn X 50s

YHEE

Going to the theatre (NT, like old times) with my bro and Ma

Helping pull off a successful Phoenix Away Day, thanks to bringing in Amber

Early morning sunshine bathing East Finchley

YHEE

Chatting to Susie & Nick from Countdown at Channel 4 Upfronts in Manchester

Walking back through Manchester in the moonlight from Tony Wilson Square

Excellent mentoring session with RG in St Pancras

Birmingham City Art Gallery

Rossetti's eighth and final version of Proserpine (1882) in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

H. Wallis - The Stonebreaker 57
(Poor Law)
Subsumed back into the earth

DG Rossetti & Madox Brown
Beata Beatrix 77
Decorated gold frame - Klimt influence
Deathly beauty
Eliz Siddal (DG's wife)

DGR
Proserpine 81/2
Jane Morris
Only auburn version of 8 - JM was dark
Cf Eve (forbidden fruit)

Simeon Solomon
A Deacon 63
Cf Caravaggio - dark & gay
Compare his face to Proserpine - sensual lips

Wallis
Death of Chatterton 55/6
Small version (big in Tate)

Millais
The proscribed royalist 1651 52/3
Cavalier is Arthur hughes
Lovely chamber scale
Romantic

Madox Brown
An Eng Autumn afternoon 52/3
Hampstead

FMB
Work 63
Heath St

Sandys
Medea 66/8
Klimt
Gilt bg
Women as sorceress cf Morgan Le fay

Holman Hunt
Finding of saviour in temple
54/60
Jesus has got the vibe
Intensity of Preraph

Academic - cold
Bizarre medievalism
Intensity of feeling
Accuracy of detail

William Russell Flint
Silver & Gold 1931
Odalisque
Gatsby
Cheeky nip

Sidney Meteyard - Hope Comforting Love in Bondage (1901)
cf Burne-Jones - Pygmalion & the Image - hopes for love, courtly love, worshipping the female

The Staffordshire Hoard

Lyrics

The meaning of words v The sound of words
in songs

Hugh Laurie - Inheritance Tracks (BBC Radio 4)
we both listen to the latter