Ramsay Gibb

Elaine, Sam and I trolled along to a private view this evening at Francis Kyle’s gallery in Maddox Street, a long-standing haunt – to see the latest Ramsay Gibb exhibition.  Some stunning paintings, including a fair few beautiful, unsettling images of Arctic ice.  Of the more local paintings, the one I liked best was of an ancient British hill fort in the Malvern Hills.  Talked to the artist on the way out, partly to say thank you for the two canvases we have had for quite a few years, one of them showing the burial mounds at Sutton Hoo, and partly to see whether there is anything we can do to help him give a wider airing to what is happening in the Arctic, where the long-sought North-West Passage is rapidly becoming an unexpected reality.