The exhibition is composed principally of prints in etching and aquatints, Rego’s Nursery Rhymes are juxtaposed or rather alternated with Goya’s Los Disparates (The Follies or Proverbs).

You may not be surprised to learn Paula Rego and Francisco de Goya are two of my favourite artists; dark, surreal, sardonic social satire.

Given the inhumanity and political hypocrisy flooding the news and social media today their work seems more relevant than ever.

So, is it strange the show is largely empty? Rego’s dark sculptures (& studio props) occupy dark corners of the gallery and mind.

Maybe everybody has had enough. We have reached saturation point.

Look away.

When I get home after a journey of cancelled and crowded trains gazing at the darkness, not an artistic construct, on my smart phone I make a few Paula Rego inspired sketches to relax . . . (and yes, I did steel the idea of not colouring in politicians eyes to make them appear blind from Rego’s Three blind mice).

https://www.holburne.org/events/uncanny-visions-paula-rego-and-francisco-de-goya/