Quick one I did on holiday, scribble in fine line. Did a few digital touch ups afterwards and the background was from a foggy walk along the canal. That day was about 6 months ago and was seriously weird, the foggiest day I have ever seen, litterally 100 meter visibility over the whole of Warwick and it was really eerie being along the canal.

Which leads me onto some artwork I spotted in the Times art supplement last week, a new exhibition by Australian artist Ron Mueck. It was really nice to see an exhibition showing amazing technical skills.

Muecks work consists of fibreglass people or body part sculptures recreated in extraordinary detail but with a difference, they are all at the wrong scale. I must admit some of his subjects I find slightly squeamish, the newborn baby is actually quite frightening but the level of skill in creating these is just fantastic and it was one of the first time for years I’d looked at some artwork and just though “wow that’s amazing”.

What really annoys me though is that so called art critics have not exactly been kind to his work saying that it is just a display of technical skill rather than art. What sort of critique is that, surely if an artist shows some skill rather than random squiggles or “ideas art” l it can still be art ?

If you want to see more go and look at the washington posts pages for a previous exhibition.

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