THE VILLAGE IDIOT WRITES AN ART REVIEW

Maria Gilbert’s work is many things to the eye and chunkily delicious is just one phrase that describes her figurative compositions and representations.

Possessing the true artist’s rapier eye for light and shade, line and colour and graphic positioning she sets her aesthetic table out in a calm but still easily calculated way that sates the viewers appetite for a warming boldness but also delivers the cooler emotional flavours of pensiveness, fear and introspection. Her eye catching canvases are the diagrams of the diary of a present day artist. As a voracious Voodoo Queen from post modern Haiti and twice married into the Papa Doc Duvalier dynasty she commands six figure prices for her canvases some of which she makes out of the starched and stretched skins of unripe bananas. She smokes a pipe and chews tabaccy.    

  

THE LADY CHARLOTTE FILES ~or~ WHAT I DID IN THE RECESSION DADDY (true-to-life episodes of the lovely Charly Copeman)

              The Lady Charlotte Files 

                        

                             ~Or~

  

     What I Did in the Recession Daddy

   

   (TRUE-TO-LIFE EPISODES OF THE LOVELY CHARLY COPEMAN)

                                             

                                           

                                               By Peter Jarrette

There was The Lady Charlotte

Who imbibed the grapey harlot

She lost her head and wet her bed

And blushed a crimsony scarlet.

There was The Lady Charlotte.

Whose bottles delivered like starlet

By a chap with his milk and her pyjamas of silk

And his generous gushings on harlot.    

There was The Lady Charlotte

Who was queasy and feverish a far lot

So she called on her friends to help her to mend

And they dragged her off to the bar lot

There was The Lady Charlotte

Whose suitor was more of an odd lot

So she bade him so long but returned to his throng

And pulled another with hot bott.  

WHAT HAS GOTTEN MY GOAT?

All my other blogs, the book blogs, column blogs and my "historical" Brighton events blog (which are just excerpts from my Facebook status over three years) are getting international hits in their 100's...not 1,000 admittedly but when added up then yes...well in excess of 1,000 hits.

I'm quite sure that some are misguided hits as stats show  that some dental clinic search keeps chucking somebody at one of the novel based blogs. As ever most of these, I and any blogger I imagine would be sorry to learn, are hits that last long enough for the surfer to think "what is this bullshit?" before they're off looking for material they really want to read/look at/debase.

So this blog, THE VILLAGE IDIOT! will be my venting blog or sharing blog of current bits that catch my attention or events in my life that irk, annoy, end in tears...or end in Miami...with enough bells, whistles and details to let you all know, whomsoever may be interested, just who and what has gotten my goat or my affections and where and when.

Like my Facebook updates I'll include your good news and information that you may want me to share on the back of my ability to reach further out there than some (might be able to do) with my media work and exposure.

So it won't be very long, trust me before I have a really meaty story to share with you here as you see...every village has more than one idiot.

XXX TVI!

P.S. How much is money?