A very big thank you to an unknown RA member who offered to take me from the back of the queue straight into the Van Gogh exhibition as her guest. She is absolutely right that if membership entitles you to take a guest with you, why not, in an act of random kindness, make that someone that you don't know except that they have sufficient interest to have joined what remain lengthy queues. I'm certainly very grateful both to have seen the exhibition ad to have been the recipient of an act of random kindness.
The exhibition was, of course, fabulous, although I was surprised that it did not include more of the really well known works. What was great was to see many of the early works which to my mind show what a strong artist Van Gogh was almost from day one (although this went almost completely unappreciated at the time). The key move it seemed to me from seeing both early and late works together was in translating the marks that he made in pen and ink drawings to his oil paintings where, combined with the vividness of his colour, they provide the vigourous force and movement across the entire canvas that gives the greatest of his works their intense power.
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Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon.
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