Well well. I had the pleasure of going to my first BSL-terped art talk this afternoon. Yes. Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper.

Bringing together approximately sixty drawings and paintings on paper from the artist?s personal archive, the exhibition spans his career from the 1950s to the present. Many of the works have never been seen or exhibited before. Considered to be one of the greatest living American artists, Cy Twombly has received widespread admiration and critical acclaim internationally throughout his fifty-year career. Subverting traditional distinctions between painting and drawing, brush and pencil-work, poetry and image, he has made a highly individual contribution to the history of painterly abstraction.

It was at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Park Gardens at 3pm, terped by Karen Newby.

What did I think of? I enjoyed it, but the problem is, I’m not sure why. Was it simply because I had full access to a mainstream event? Or was it playing to my artistic side (I do have one thank you)? Or was the subject itself of particular fascination for me? I think it was the second. I do have an artistic side to me; my Grandad was a fantastic oil on canvas painter. He didn’t do original works, just copied prints and pictures from books. But he was interested in art. I am too. I’ve done a few paintings myself; they’re up in the attic at home in Newport.

During the talk today, I was even interpreting some of the paintings myself. That was a new thing for me.

Looks like these talks are gonna be a regular thing for me. Is that good or bad?