kate - day 18

like steve it was a busy day and i too reflected on the ruskin archive trip which you can see in the blog section of the poly-technic site, as i was thinking about the beauty inherent in the work and the skill of the makers. it made me want to paint something really beautiful and colourful and perhaps a bug after Edward Donovan but that will have to wait..... Instead, as i was working in Leeds Gallery, based in one small room, for 5 hours, with only very minimalist works for company from the current show - Sculpture Drawing, i did a sculptural drawing of my immediate landscape - a rubbing of the perimeter of the first gallery of the Bernard and Lucy Lyons gallery. Here it is folded as a book, with the floor board lines on the creases - it is beautiful and reveals invisible traces of actions and people......