Arty Stuff!

 Lots of creativity around at present! Greyrocks has enjoyed three examples in particular.

On Friday we went up the mountain to Azogires:- in part to find some relief from the heatwave, and in part to see this exhibition before it finished. We took a taxi to the Alfa Café and enjoyed some soft drinks, then walked up to the venue, which is behind the Alfa Rooms and has a wonderful view.

There were a dozen or so paintings and other artefacts evoking the wonderful colours of those red moons which we see each summer month rising over the Libyan Sea. We were the only punters at first, but Lucky arrived with toddler Sofia and offered us chilled wine, and then there was John and his dog. So a catch-up on events and people in the village! We learnt that Yvette's redundant cover, which we had donated because John's vehicle was similarly shaped, had in fact been used to cover his winter log pile!  There are pleasing sketches of the aforementioned folk on the website of Rebecca at the café. She now has work displayed in the GrosRouge Gallery, which we also visited before our beer and spinach pies!

Revised Version

Hassan has been busy with sand sculptures on the beach, but (as described in a previous post) their life span is short in this period of rough waves and high water lines, and so far there has never been a set of five intact at the end of his creative week! This week began with a huge and meticulously detailed crocodile with an open mouth and menacing pebble teeth! Next day he worked on one of his specialities: a female nude in prone position; but this one had her head between the croc's jaws. Hassan came down to talk to us and we jokingly said we were disturbed by this image. He promptly destroyed the lower half, and the victim became a mermaid! He said he didn't want to worry the tourists.

Bob's regular bus stop in his youth!

And - back in Blighty - or specifically Norfolk/Suffolk we were delighted to read of Banksy's "spraycation". All the sites have meaning for Greyrocks. Bob has lived in Yarmouth, Gorleston and Lowestoft; we visit a cousin in Oulton Broad and Ruth spent many chilly summers in and near Cromer with her ex. 

Details of the artworks here!