Nine short pieces as a live, solo promenade performance, (acoustic violin and nine stones) responding to the paintings of Swedish born artist Monica Sjöö, at the Peace Camp day event at Beaconsfield Gallery, Vauxhall.

Starting in the replicated peace tower from Greenham Common, playing the Greenham song ‘Stand Up Women, Make Your Choice’, the performer walked into the building, stopping at chosen paintings, responding with the violin. Each painting is marked by a large stone, on the floor. Moving on, an assistant maiden places each stone into a central basket.

There was so much nuance, variation and subtlety in each encounter. Every Maiden and her stone [a stone placed on the floor, marked the painting being looked at] felt infused with specific and particular powers and the interface with Sjoo’s cosmology was extremely intimate. It was extraordinarily moving and spine tingling at times.M Curran

…because solo violin – forced me to focus and strangely I began to live the music, to join in, so to speak, the music. I was eager to see what each stone drew forth, to find which painting you were in dialogue with and at the end, as if I had taken a drug, or found clean air, Monika’s paintings seemed to grow, to deepen, to become more beautiful, clearer and numinous. I realised that these late paintings were stunning, rich in colour and meaning, strong and very great. But it was quite definitely the music and you playing it, what you seemed to be feeling/experiencing that opened windows and doors in my mind’s eye and let the light in. Today I looked at the photos of Monika’s work and the magic still held. For that, I thank you very much as you gave me back to the essence of Monika. E Jellinek