February 2012
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An interesting article in this weekend’s Guardian Review about Percy Kelly, a reclusive artist who didn’t like to sell his work. The images I found on the Castlegate House Gallery website are lovely. He wrote hundreds of illustrated letters to his friend Joan David over 10 years although they only met 5 times!
Meeting Peter, who has moved into a flat in Vauxhall, for coffee was a good way to start my day in London last week. Coffee finished, he went home to install his new computer while I walked over Vauxhall Bridge to Tate Britain to see the new Picasso exhibition – ‘Picasso and Modern British Art’. The show begins with a look at Picasso’s early visits to London (the first in 1919) then moves onto...
On Saturday we spent a very cold but enjoyable hour by the Stour estuary between Manningtree and Mistley with our binoculars and telescope watching the birdlife as the tide came in. We saw redshanks, godwits, oystercatchers, lapwings and avocets to name but a few. The lapwings have the most amazing coloured plumage which I had never appreciated before and the avocets are so elegant – their...
I have been making some plaster moulds - ready for the Baptismal Bowl I have been commissioned to make for a church in Crowthorne. I bought a plastic garden bucket, which I cut to the size I needed, to contain the plaster and shaped the clay formers on the wheel. I had bought a 25kg bag of potter’s plaster from Grant at Blue MatchBox Gallery and used it all for two moulds and a small...
