Presentation Day - Lilo Helga Gericke – Zaki

Lilo is a German Painter who works in Mixed Media. Whilst in the residency, she was working at a response to the experience, after abandoning the work that she intended to pursue whilst here. It is a very common thing in residencies, it appears, that what you thought you would work on, changes as a result of the experience. And so it has, for at least three of us.

Lilo worked with a number of images and even printed using a dried out cactus, resulting in interesting blue and brown work. And here's the results.

Drawings from the sketchbook -London and Valparaiso

Houses in the Pueblo at Mojacar

Street Scene, Mojacar Pueblo

The mountains to the East, from the square hill Valparaiso

The Thames View, London

View from the Mountain, Fundacion Valparaiso

Across to Mojacar Pueblo, from behind My studio (named "Picasso"!)

View 2 from the Square mountain, Fundacion Valparaiso

The Garden at Valparaiso - near "Pieter's Place"

I draw as a means of calming my self for later work in the studio; to remove myself from the world; to start the "seeing" process; to slow down my observation; and to train the hand to follow the eye. Here are the results of some of the more successful sketches from the residency in Spain (and one from London - it was whirlwind!)

Hope you like them!