Another opening - "to the studios"

In a previous post I remarked on the experience of approaching a grassy rise at Mystery Bay. There was a sense of opening to the sky and the scape, and a great sense of hope.

I get a similar feeling from this wonderful work by Frank Auerbach in the current show at Rex Irwin gallery - Important drawings, prints and ceramics.

Frank Auerbach
Sketch; To the studios 1977
Ink on paper, 29.5 x 34.3cm (image Rex Irwin Art Dealer)

For me, Auerbach has captured the sense of hope and opening of a artist approaching his places of creation. And I think this sense can apply to others of us when we approach our places of creativity, whatever they may be. The title has "studios" in the plural and for me this is significant - the creative places in us are plural.