Ibiza Intrigue © 2004 Tom Ferguson  Still got it. ................................. back ... next  
     
  Ibiza Intrique 6/04
Oil on found cabinet door ........... . back ... next
25 3/4 x 21 1/2"

The painting draws its subject from a 1971 drawing done in one of my traveling sketchbooks, in Ibiza, Spain. I was sitting on a balcony in a coffee shop, trying to keep warm since my hotel was unheated & I got stuck on Ibiza during the holiday season, had to wait two weeks to get off the island, all planes & ships totally booked. Hung out in coffee houses, took buses to the end of the line and back, read books, wrote, sketched.... met some fellow travelers & went back to Formentara & stayed with them a few days.... got terribly lost in the rain going in to check my mail and there were no letters. I was playing with cubist devices even then. Got to be a habit since discovering it in Picasso then Cezanne. One of the one-a-day drawings I did from 1969 to 1974.