My job saw me during lockdown as a KEYWORKER driving around Norfolk county along very empty roads as a deliver driver. I was a life saver according to many people, not but not literally like the NHS. Still there are signs up saying thank-you NHS on the roads. I have never seen Southwold so quiet anytime ever and this was the moment that brought it home, over Easter 2020.
4.8.22
Did we make the Most of Lockdown ?
I don't think we (I) made the most of lockdown, the time period where we were tied to our homes and only allowed exercise and going to get supplies. The early Spring part in 2020 I remember a sense of possibility amongst the gloom and uncertainty of what was unraveling, related to the season of growth ? It would have been an ideal time to read a thick novel learn a new language or do something outside of a sense of routine and clock checking, as we (I) were clinging on to this normality rather than moping around the house in disbelief. I wrote this heading down because the exhibition is first coming out of this time period, so the return to normality thing.
REEEEEE ------BBBBBBBOOOOOTTTTTTTTT
Re-starting this blog, rather than set up a new one. With the intention to post sketchbook notes that accompany the lead up to a painting show with two other artists on the North Norfolk coast. It was originally scheduled for March 2020 and then put forward due to COVID, or Corona Virus as it was known as in the beginning. I quite liked the way Michael Craig Martin in his fairly recent book (which I can't remember title of) had broken themes down into bite size chunks, so will follow this idea. Lets see how I can find time and will to keep it going! The titles of each posting will be the bubbles written down in a mind map or sider chart I wrote, of which the purpose was to try and write a statement about my work.
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