an exhibition:on and off the paper at Horsebridge Centre Whitstable

Went down to Whitstable at the weekend to look at the Horsebridge Centre. My cousin Nick and I are having a joint show there in February next year. I like the title with its suggested layers of connections and meanings.
Whitstable is a great mix of chic and tacky, fishy smells mingle with expensive gift shops. The Kent coast, with its Junk Shops where my sister Victoria, Nick and I used to browse in the early 1970's is gone.
 Does anyone else recall those musty interiors where amongst the clutter there was always a bargain to be had? What did happen to all those Military buttons, fans and hat pins?

'Oh' at the Saatchi Gallery

Has anyone seen that gorgeously tactile work entitled rather deliciously 'Oh' in the Saatchi Gallery London????
It is by Juliana Cerqueira Leite. It is by far the best piece of work in the Gallery, honest and moving.I think I could have sat on the floor and looked at it for a very long time.
Most of the other exhibits are paintings and sadly nothing new or particularly interesting there, unless I was missing something.....perhaps someone can enlighten me?There is also a notable absence of video art which made the Gallery beautifully silent.
I am trying to pin down the 'found words' to make a special selection but each one has its own special 'place'. It is as painful as throwing out well worn and loved clothes and I keep finding an excuse to keep them!!

Found Objects

Found objects,the odds and ends that catch one's eye sometimes become the stimuli for art works don't they? As I was thinking about this the other day it occurred to me that the found objects that I find particularly fascinating are words....words and phrases either heard or read.Little nuggets that settle in my mind and later may surface as a drawing.