Orust; and now to the summer festival!

Orust Summer Festival  2014

Where to begin?  How to climb this peak experience?  A whole mountain range of peaks and troughs and an even higher peak finale - I can't begin to touch it.

But here goes anyway.

Here is a picture of a Scandinavian troll standing in front of his mountain cave...

In case you don't see him, here he is a bit closer up...

Now the strange thing is, nobody actually painted this troll.

How did this painting happen?

Well this, and many other mysterious and magnificent paintings. some of which I will show you later, all happened at this place:

Can you imagine that this place is a school?

And that this is the school dining room with a very beautiful person in it?

And here are two other beautiful people in the school grounds

And three more, and so on, I think you get the picture.

But really you don't get the picture because there were so many other beautiful people here, because all the people in this very special situation and this very special place, were able to become, together,  the very beautiful people that they are.

Here are 3 proud artists in front of their painting

These three people, who did not know each other, were asked to paint a picture together using the materials provided.

There were no rules.

Well, some people had some rules, and others had quite different rules and others were quite sure they wanted no rules at all.

Here is something happening between some colours...from people who drip and drop and swish and let is happen and like to watch what happens...

Far away figures in hidden places

Here a deeper, more intense picture, the second picture attempted by a trio...

Here, there were two people,  one person really drove the other to go for it, made it happen.

Here a trio found form...

And here another trio found texture-form, by wiping out the original painting, painting over the smudge, taking off some of the paint with tissues...some others painted straight over the first painting, and then painted over it for a third time.

Here is a picture which has just been wiped out and is waiting to be painted over.

And of course, if you look at it another way around, in a different light, on a different day, with a quite different understanding, you might see a sea battle, a viking long boat, a schooner, and you might not see the mountain troll at all

(Yes darlings, this IS the picture with the troll in it, you should have seen how much proof I had to provide before JC believed me...)