Amazingly for me, Jenny Saville is a contemporary of mine, a shining star who said things that the entire women’s movement had until that moment had been unable to vocalise so simply and publicly.
With some paint and a canvas, she laid bare so much about people’s lives; about rape, about violence, about women of size.
On top of her incredible statements, she is, I believe, also the finest figurative painter of her generation.
After seeing her Degree Show in Glasgow, I didn’t paint for a month….my doodles and small landscapes seemed suddenly irrelevant, nd yet there was no jealousy….I love every brush stroke that Jenny makes.
The sea-change that she brought about was amazing…..people, particularly men, who saw her early work often remarked “But why would you want to paint THAT?” and yet it was “THAT” that my life experience and personal politics was all about.
Some of Jenny’s work contains nudity, which I’ve decided would not perhaps be suitable for a ‘Safe For Work’ blog, but a quick Google search will bring up many of her artworks..
Thank you, Jenny.
Antony Hegarty is a beautiful man, which I knew long before I ever saw him, by hearing his wonderful music on the radio.
I’ve been trying to look at my concepts of various types of relationships and my basic model of a hetero couple seems to date back to watching McMillan and Wife as a child.
They seemed so much more exciting than TV couples on UK TV at that time and Susan Saint James seemed far more equal in the relationship that actual married straight women were in my real life.
When I say equal, I mean that she was listened to, or at least relatively so.
Dr Sheldon Cooper is my aspie / asexual icon, alongside Kenneth Williams.
The writers of The Big Bang Theory are thankfully able to explore aspects of Sheldon that previous sitcoms were unable or willing to.
