Behind the Eye - ACE223.5

Huxley with a large narrative painting, Sticking Together, a response to the story of a young woman who’d come to see a prisoner in gaol in Ireland and had Superglued their hands together to ensure a longer time together. Griffith at the Society for the Blind, Glasgow, where some of his paintings are being exhibited. Maskell Packer painting. She says she doesn’t think of herself as being disabled because it’s a very negative word; she prefers to focus on what she can do rather than what she can’t. The more she does, the more she can do, and the more confident she becomes. Huxley talks about becoming intolerant towards people who don’t understand his need to compensate for his sight problems; he thinks he was very belligerent at school in order to push for his right to go to art school. He describes a piece he wrote at college on artists with visual impairments, and how he adapts to circumstances.
Griffith with a large painting of a head. He talks about the colours and how he sees them. Maskell Packer explains how she sometimes needs to ask if she’s copied something external correctly, but following her own ideas means she can paint what she sees in her head.