
The Cook
The imagined life of someone totally dedicated to something I really don’t understand.
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Art, Latin, Writing and other things that matter
What you can find on this blog.

The Cook
The imagined life of someone totally dedicated to something I really don’t understand.
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Back to Portrait
This week I have started attending Virtual Portrait class again
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The Long Shadow
Thinking about how the shadow of an evil time can travel down through the generations. The historic facts are true, this family story is imagined.
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The Artist’s Wife
A story from the viewpoint of a child’s memory (Only Julie Andrews and the coat are fact.)
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Jane Branch at Open Studios
This week I am featuring some examples of my friend Jane Branch’s new work currently on show during Devon Open Studios at Voyage Arts, Teignmouth. (Venue75)
These are very different from other work of hers you may have seen In
the past. Including some fascinating blends of painting and relief. Do come and have a look !
Jane is exhibiting with four other artists , Michelle Greenwood Brown, John Skinner, Clare Jenkinson and Virginia Greim; creating a very interesting and exciting exhibition .
Open every day till sept 27 th. 11.00a.m to 5.00p.m
If Teignmouth is too far away for you, here are links to Jane’s Website, Devon Open Studios, and Voyage.
Jane – http://www.s354618071.websitehome.co.uk/janebranchart/gallery17.htm
Open Studios – https://www.devonartistnetwork.co.uk/event-series/devon-open-studios
Voyage – https://www.facebook.com/voyageartgalleriesworkshops
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A Little More on the Hebrides
A few people have asked for more about our move to the Outer Hebrides from London Fifty years ago., so here are some rather random fragments of memory.
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A Secret
This story is based on something which happened over a hundred years ago in the village where I was born.
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Lest We Forget
I wanted to try and make a picture which showed something of the reality of what the Cenotaph, that huge, clean white stone in Whitehall commemorates. Impossible, but I tried.
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Pablo Picasso and Lump
I read the story of Picasso and Lump and how they came to be sharing their lives by the photographer David Douglas Duncan, who was Lump’s original owner, and decided to try a portrait of them together.
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