Its hard for me to work over the summer so it is usually a brewing time.  I spent June in Alicante where I set up the exhibition and was able to enjoy the hogueras - the fiesta the Alicantinos use to celebrates the arrival of summer.

Its a week long party - noisy, colourful and hot and you get to see some spectacular firework displays.   The city turns into a vast backdrop for the party adorned with huge "ninots" which are brightly painted wooden and paper caricatures, usually politically satirical.  They take committees from each barrio of the city all year to design and plan then they are erected and judged before being burnt on the night of San Juan, last night of the fiesta. Its a great extravagant excuse for a party and alongside each "ninot" is a "barracca" - a temporary bar where you can eat, drink, listen to music dance and talk till going home happily exhausted at dawn.

Whilst I was there I also went (twice) to see a  retrospective exhibition of Luis Marover in the MUBAG museum of modern art.  I didn't know his work but it very much reminded me on one of my favourite English artists Michael Andrews - it was great to see this much of his work all together.  I have added an address to the links section if anyone is interested in looking further at his work