Cumbrian artist and friend in Exile Julian Hyde (see Desire Path) currently has a small exhibition in progress at Windermere Library: A Geography of Absence combines photos, found objects and collage. Having been an admirer of his work for some years, I was chuffed when Julian asked me to pen a few words for the event:
Julian Hyde’s images
and words are not, as the casual viewer might think, out of focus: the skill
is, when you have five square miles of water nearby filled with giftshop
swallows and rabbits, amazons and poets, to aim your focus elsewhere,
forget emotions dampened by the moisture of unseen lakes, and find another
path, towards, for example, an unloved garage door trapped by the same beams of
sunlight that bless a thousand Range Rover visitors: a shared skin peeling, flaking,
disintegrating, smelling either of Dulux Weathershield or Ambre Solaire…
For more information you can contact Julian here: j_kane001@hotmail.com.
