Sally Wakelin – Studies in Creativity
Paintings, drawings, sculpture and writing
During the London Open House weekend, I visited the Daily Express building in Fleet Street, to see the extraordinary opulent Art Deco foyer. I took a lot of photos but the best ones were these two from outside, the reflection in the black glass portico ceiling and the red lettering with the reversed view of the opposite side of the street.
During the last 6 months or so, access to Greenwich Park has been very restricted whilst the Equestrian Olympics stadium has been built, used and taken down. The public now has access to more of the park whilst the structures are being dismantled. The scale of the structure supporting the seating is extraordinary. A mass of scaffolding poles, its hard to even begin to think how it was planned.
Sleeping on a blow-up bed in the study for a couple of nights I awoke in the dark to this cheerful scene. The blue and green of the answering machine and the broadband router glowing away in contrast to the softer, warmer light of the sodium street-lamp, casting soft shadows of delicate foliage outside the window and wooden slatted blinds on the inside. In a sleepy fumble and with blurry vision, guessing at camera settings, I tried to hold the camera steady for the long exposures but I think I like the inevitable soft-focus result.
Looking through old family photo albums recently, I found images my Dad had made sometime in the early 1960s. I don’t recall having seen them before though I must have done at some time. Just two months ago I happened to be there, on Bangor Pier and took some very similar photos. I found that rather heart-warming, not the usual tourist choice, we must share some sensibilities and an interest in form. We must have both loved these detailed patterns made by the series of cast benches.
At last the website is done – it has been a project for longer than I had intended but its there now for all to see.
Glenys is a true artist, she paints every day and is never happier than when she can be standing at her easel. She is as enthusiastic now as she has ever been and her work is still as glorious and joyful as ever.
Glenys did not want to entitle most of her pieces so you will find no titles at all, as it seemed wrong to label some and not others.
Please leave any messages for Glenys on this blog and I will make sure she sees them – she may even reply – if she can spare time away from her brushes.
http://www.glenyscour.co.uk/index.html
Sally Wakelin - Studies in Creativity 
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