SAATCHI : PAPER

Having not been to an exhibition in a while, this was absolute bliss. Not only is the gallery really, really beautiful (pale wood and white walls and calm lighting, what's not to love?) but I was quite shocked by how much I enjoyed the artwork. There was so much difference from piece to piece and it was all really inspiring - these are just a small selection of the photographs that I took whilst I was there. I've been struggling to come up with any ideas for my own artwork recently, and it made me remember just how much looking at art and just spending time in galleries can really motivate you and help with being creative. My favourite piece is the last photograph, with all the different portraits - they're great, and despite all being so different just seem to match really well - but I would say it's definitely an exhibition which is worth going to see for all of the artwork in it.

WALES

As promised, Elfyn Lewis! A lovely package arrived in the post for me this morning, containing catalogues and a cd full of artwork, and well, it's all fabulous! I just find it all fascinating, while we were looking round the gallery first, my brother had kind of turned round to me and gone, "how does he do these?", because the way they look is amazingly confusing in terms of what paint's where. Probably my favourite one, is called 'Pwll Crochan', which is kind of blue and green and black and really intriguing. It oddly looks like the sea, a reef or something like that. I've included some more images, from his exhibition, which you should take a look at too!