THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS SUMMER EXHIBITION

I got accepted! After years of rejection I got into The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. I am thrilled and honoured.

My piece, It Looked Like Rain So I Did Not Go :( is number 575 in Gallery IV, which has been curated by Grayson Perry.

Grayson says, "The first time I came to the Summer Show preview party I remember being overwhelmed by the swirl of colour, not just the art but all the bright dresses. I think I have tried to recreate, in a small way, that almost hallucinatory experience. The last time I hung a room in 2018 I also painted the walls lemon yellow. When fellow Academicians came to see it on varnishing day one remarked, perhaps a little disparagingly, 'Oh I see what you have done, interior decoration.' This, I thought, was rich coming from an architect and also, I thought, 'Yeah, interior decorator, isn't that what a lot of artists are doing, Super Rich Interior Decoration.' So I was pleased with the result, it looked great and I got the title of my next exhibition. This year I have two rooms of mainly prints and I always try to put in as many works as possible, for a big part of the glory of the Summer Show is its democracy. Oh, and there are several works about climate change too."

Thank you to all who selected my work.