Kelsie Irvine Yr 10

We went on a field trip to the Emirates Palace Hotel to meet an artist and look at his work and the work of at least 16 other artists from his gallery in Jordan. The exhibition was called ‘Colour Dialogue’ and it was from the Rowaq Al Balqa Gallery.

I arrived later than the others, so when I got there it was in the middle of the Egyptian ambassadors’ visit and a photo shoot.

We were introduced to an artist called Sana. She was also Jordanian. She took us to look at her paintings and talked about the pain and pleasure of making them and how the whole series were influenced by words conveying emotion. She talked about how everyone interprets paintings differently, especially abstract painting like hers. But she also said there was no right or wrong interpretations.

As an example, she asked one girl what emotion she felt when she looked at the picture and she said ‘sadness.’ Sana then asked me, and I said ‘hope.’

Afterwards, we looked around the exhibition and chose our favourite paintings. We had our photo taken as a small group and then each of us took a photo of a detail of the painting. Khaldoun then talked us through one of his pieces of art. He let some of us change the composition of it to portray different things.

After looking at the exhibition, we went to the beach and did some painting with our hands. We use only two colours and attempted to make it look like a different picture when we rotated it. When we had completed our paintings we laid them out together and put a cardboard border around them. We also chose a shell from the beach and wrote our names in the sand.

I though Khaldoun was an interesting man who had many creative ideas.