I’ve always believed life is what you make of it.
A day before my 30th birthday, and I found myself having an incredibly pleasant catch up with an old boss of mine. Being a former City of London Police Detective, Phil wasn’t afraid to challenge, and to provoke. He was incredibly tough, but it came with a begrudging respect which has only grown in appreciation in the years that followed.
Flash-forward the better part of a decade and Phil has got exactly the kind of job he deserved, shooting about all over the world making sure Shaun Ryder & The Happy Mondays make it on stage, on time and in once piece. If the stories are anything to go by it must be one hell of a job. Phil’s living the dream.
Jorge Aguilar-Agon is cut from a very similar cloth. He stepped out from the front door of his family home in Barcelona one sunny morning some 60 odd years ago, embraced life, and never looked back.
We spent a very happy couple of hours with Jorge at his North London studio this morning, where we were shown 10 of his brand new original works. Sensational. We expect them to be dry and with us in St.Katharine Docks by the start of next week (commencing Monday 21st).
Bruges
Rainbow’s End
From our Exhibition brochure for Jorge’s 75th Anniversary Exhibition last year;
“To know Jorge is to love him. Never has an artist brought so much joy to the lives of so many as we discover the world through his eyes. You cannot separate the man from the work, nor the work from the man, for they are one in the same; A genuine ambassador for all that is good and great in the world, and a constant reminder to look to the stars and to dream.”
To Jorge & Phil. Here’s to the dreamers.
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