Well, it’s a beautiful water tower that once fed this former cork factory and now it’s quite rightly a space for contemporary art. Regrettably the published hours of opening were so complex we haven’t so far gained entry. I’ll report back…
These wonderful gardens surround a beautiful home built in 1927 by the Russian Colonel Nicolai Woevodsky and his English aristocrat wife Dorothy Webster. They were both lovers of architecture, art, decoration and gardening and this was their dream home. Now it’s a 17 hectare garden with over a thousand species of plant and the grounds are home to summer concerts with such alumni as Jose Carreras, Sting and Tom Jones!!!!!!!
A quick cycle up there gave me a few hours to paint the coastline from the peninsular which was idyllic…
Though the weather has been a little grey the sun does get a look in once in a while…
Ok, first of all I’m not a fan of Salvador Dali. But when I realized that the Castle he bought for Gala was half an hour away we couldn’t resist. And I’m so pleased we went. It has some classic ‘glam’ seventies interventions in the village of Pubol’s medieval castle. And strangely it was very tasteful (which is probably an unfair comment but when you consider the kitch he surrounded himself with in the 70′s!). I liked his orange Datsun in the garden along with fireplaces and furniture…
Is the title of a wonderful book by English author Norman Lewis. After the war he came to the part of Cataluña we are in now but back then it was very different. Tourism hadn’t really started and his book anecdotally documents it’s arrival and the changes made upon this place and its people. This picture is from the 70′s I’m guessing as Donna remembers the little flat bottomed cruiser pulling up on the beach. It’s strange to see the world expanding and yet getting smaller simultaneously…
Getting the lay of the land. Calella de Palafrugell from the Faro de San Sebastian…
Los Gazquez is back in the world of conspicuous consumption. Now we have access to all the things we don’t need and my how we are consuming the remainders of our resources. Even the sardines need their own individual security boxes…
Los Gazquez is away for a few days in Cataluña in the Baix Emporda north of Barcelona. And it’s raining and the air is full of the constant noise of humans…
Louise Short returns to Los Gázquez for part three in a series of residencies here for Joya: arte + ecología. Part one ‘The Lure’ was a time lapse super 8 film of vultures on the sierras in front of Los Gázquez. Part two ‘The Vanitas’, another film this time concerned with the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of beauty. In July she returns for ‘The Bubble’…
