We raced down to London by train for one night on Thurs/Fri last week. The train is a great way to travel - from Lancaster station which is about 45 mins away we are in London's Euston station within three hours, and we avoid the ridiculously high parking and congestion charges in London. We went down for the Frieze contemporary art show which was quite impressive in some ways. There were about 110 galleries hawking there works but relatively little that was interesting or new. We picked up a painting The Field by Brian Calvin which is on this post. It is now Rob's favorite painting. It stands six and a half feet tall and is so stunning in person that it blew both of us away. We made a new connection with a small gallery in London that represents Brian's work named Corvi Mora. Another artist we loved that we had seen previously in NY is named Anthony Goicolea. He does these enormous decaying landscapes in black and white that are haunting. Check out his site, it is definitely worthwhile. We also visited Michael Hoppen Gallery to see his Eyes of an Island show of Japanese photography, where we picked up a photo Kamaitachi by Eikoh Hosoe. The photograph represents a Japanese villager acting out the sickle weasle myth. After these purchases we headed back to the Lake District while we could still afford a ticket looking forward to the next few months living on bread and water.
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