The 10th Frieze art fair took place again in the Regent's park from the 11th to the14th of October. Along with the main event this year Frieze had a satellite fair – Frieze masters, which from the outset was far more interesting and sophisticated than the main event. This was where the real art was exhibited with many of the great masters being represented: Degas, Lucian Freud, Picasso (Acquavella Galleries, C1), Giacometti (Thomas Gibson, C2), Abraham van den Hecken (Salomon Lilian (B10), Brueghel (De Jonckheere, D2) and many more from ancient to the present. No crowd, no noise – just great masterpieces and you. The prices were extravagantly high but for serious art collectors this was the only place to browse leaving the contemporary art in it's wake – there were so many wonderful art works available to buy. It is not very often that the opportunity is there to see these museum quality works together in one place – viewing pieces like this in an art gallery for the 'man on the street' is nigh on impossible as most of them work by appointment only.

What a contrast when you enter the Frieze booth; very crowded, making it an effort even to cruise through to browse the exhibitions. Something happened with contemporary art – it is difficult to believe that Degas died less than100 years ago and Turner just over 150 and all what we ended up with is this. Most of the art projects this year were no more intellectual and innovative than plays and activities from a nursery or a primary school. Looking at what galleries exhibited; my impression was that they found random things in the closets, dustbins or had a good shopping day in charity shops. Old broken tvs , used plastic bottles and canes, broken glass, concrete block, etc… Some artist galleries went even further and put just empty canvases on the walls. When viewing a picture with something depicted on it you feel like the artist really made an effort, however in in this case the majority looked messy and incomprehensible. There wasn't a question of what an artists wanted to actually tell us – however more so the inability to put their thoughts in a more clear and cohesive way was disappointing to say the least. Overall all the contemporary art works looked the same and left me with the feeling that I have seen them before many times.