Author: Jude Tulloch

  • Loose Paintings of Majestic Stallions

    Loose Paintings of Majestic Stallions

    I decided to ease back into work with some small deliberately loose paintings. The Andalusian stallions took my breath away with their magnificent athletic necks, long thick mains and flowing tails. How lucky to see them training and performing their complex dressage movements in Jerez and Cordoba.  

  • Graffiti in Geneva

    There is so much energy in this graffiti.  Bursting through the boarded up entrance of a disused vault-like structure, they are living creatures, writhing in their effort to break out into the square. I stood on the Rue Theodore above the graffitI looking down into pared back quadrangle of the College Calvin. This space though…

  • Barcelona street art

    Just around the corner from our Air B&B in el Born.

  • Velazquez here I come

    Next stop Madrid. Can hardly wait to immerse myself in art there. This painting of Santa Rufina painted by Diego Velazquez in 1629 -1632  hangs in the small gallery established by the Fundacion Focus-Abengoe, Seville.  It’s worth a trip to the Hospital de los Venerables, a 17th century Baroque mansion and a quiet retreat providing…

  • Sketchy flamenco

    I feel some flamenco coming on.

  • Graffiti artists

    I’ve only just become acquinted with the graffiti of artist El Nino de las Pinturas who lives in Granada. Wow. I arrived this evening and hope to track down some of his work tomorrow. Spent the morning soaking up all the street art here.  Everything from clever, edgey, disturbing decorative to commercial. Too much to…