tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23656386698420332502024-03-13T19:40:38.440-07:00Imagine GalleryThe average day in the life of an art gallery, located in rural Suffolkimaginehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18096877734466819623noreply@blogger.comBlogger251125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365638669842033250.post-15716455713282488152018-03-06T09:05:00.003-08:002018-03-06T09:05:55.507-08:00Lights On<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The first images of the nearly completed Heron painting have just arrived</div>
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So here it is with the lights off and lights on.</div>
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I like them both the good thing is that whoever owns it can make their own choice using</div>
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the switch on the side.</div>
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Unfortunately Adam had to take the photographs from the side to avoid</div>
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reflections from the glass,</div>
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However, I think it gives a good idea of how it will look.</div>
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When it is delivered to me I will replace the glass with Museum glass. </div>
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Then there will be no reflections plus the artwork will be protected from UV light.</div>
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Then of course it can then be photographed face on.</div>
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Apart from the many details included within the painting</div>
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Have you also observed that the Heron carries a saddle?</div>
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Adam has created many varied subjects, which includes a large collection of</div>
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Saddled Animals</div>
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The Saddled Doe pictured below is just one example from this series.</div>
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The first exhibition we will be holding in 2018 is titled</div>
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It is to be a collaboration between</div>
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Adam Oehlers and Nom Kinnear King </div>
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Two artist who work in very different styles, in fact their work is so different</div>
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That it may seem a strange pairing</div>
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Nom has exhibited with us before and although in the past we have had a few pieces by Adam</div>
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We have never had the opportunity to present his broad spectrum of work</div>
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I have been determined to exhibit both of them at some point this year</div>
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The fact that they are both very popular and had many other obligations made it hard to</div>
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arrive at mutually convenient dates</div>
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But the fact that they are partners in life made things a lot easier</div>
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Together they could provide an exciting and very different show</div>
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So it was decided, it was to be a joint exhibition. </div>
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Because this was to be a more unusual event I felt the need to make people aware of it</div>
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sooner rather than later.</div>
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To this end I asked could they both send me photographs of their paintings as they evolved.</div>
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A couple of days later Adam contacted me saying that for this exhibition</div>
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He wanted to try out some idea's he had been thinking of for some time</div>
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The idea was to paint his illustrations in separate layers then combine them with gaps</div>
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Between the different layers.</div>
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This then presented the problem of how they could be presented in a way to enhance them</div>
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After sleeping on this, the next day following Adams exact measurements</div>
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I started to make frames for the proposed artworks</div>
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Which were dispatched to Adam </div>
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Then the wait began, wondering just what would he create?</div>
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Having no idea what to expect I was thrilled when I received the photographs</div>
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of the first piece.</div>
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Nothing had prepared me for the difference that depth and shadows could make to his</div>
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beautiful art.</div>
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Adam uses his painted illustrations to tell wonderful stories</div>
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Now those stories were brought even more to life as his artwork became three dimensional</div>
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It made me feel as if I was in the story as they seemed to hold hidden secrets</div>
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I am sure his young daughters love them</div>
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Maybe almost as much as me</div>
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So they continued</div>
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I don't think there is any need for explanation,</div>
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Other than to say that this is all very much work in progress</div>
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As yet nothing is finished to Adam's contentment, also frames are still being made </div>
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It was when I looked at the photograph below for the first time</div>
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I became totally immersed in the world of childhood.</div>
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Seeing the spaces between the clouds It reminded me of stage sets and</div>
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I was transported back to visits at the theatre</div>
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Watching Pantomime's, both as a child and a parent</div>
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There was much of the theatre about them, almost a toy theatre.</div>
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With this image in my mind I started to think how magical it would look if the clouds were</div>
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illuminated from within.</div>
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With these thoughts on mind I committed an unforgivable sin and made a call to the artist</div>
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With my idea's.</div>
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You have to understand it is awful having an active imagination but lack the skills to realise</div>
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those artistic ambitions.</div>
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So with words I tried to paint my idea in Adam's mind.</div>
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Fortunately he is a very nice man with an even greater imagination.</div>
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"Well maybe I could try something on the next one".</div>
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So in great anticipation I wait.</div>
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Meanwhile, work had already commenced upon the next artwork.</div>
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Here is the early concept sketch</div>
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Followed by the first stages of its creation</div>
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Which Adam was keen for me to see as I could not understand how he would create</div>
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the water.</div>
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Seeing what he was achieving it was easy to understand how he had spent over a week</div>
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getting to this stage without a sky.</div>
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Which I knew would follow as it is shown in the sketch.</div>
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Notice the feet underwater on the riverbed </div>
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Days later a new image arrived including the sky, it was really starting to look finished</div>
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Adam does intend to have a go at illuminating the sky before completion.</div>
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Unfortunately I can't show that at the moment as work is on hold</div>
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For the benefit of those not living in the UK I must explain the we had snow for a couple of days</div>
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As I am sure everyone is aware when that happens in this country every thing shuts down.</div>
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People hoard food as transport grinds to a halt and all deliveries to shops end</div>
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While we all sit by the fire and wait for the "big thaw".</div>
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It's our little adventure, and for a while and at least it stops the press talking about Brexit.</div>
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So our frame is stuck somewhere out there in the wilderness.</div>
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Adam has just called as I write this telling me it has arrived.</div>
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I conjure up thoughts of a dog sleigh team fighting through snow covered wastelands </div>
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Just to reach his doorstep in suburbia. </div>
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Perhaps it was airlifted in along with essential supplies.</div>
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Or maybe, just maybe the postman decided to work today, after all the snow melted days ago.</div>
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So the next post I hope will start with an image of the nearly completed piece</div>
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complete with lighting.</div>
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All of this excitement for me and I have still to show you what creations are in progress by</div>
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"It's a limited edition it's not unique, once it is made they can keep on casting them".</div>
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Is something I often hear people say when they are looking at a bronze sculpture </div>
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The inference is that another can be "knocked" out on a whimsy, this often leads them to ask </div>
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"can you tell us how it is actually made"?</div>
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With my own very limited knowledge I then try to explain what has been described to me.</div>
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But I confess that even though I have visited foundries and spoken with many sculptors</div>
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my own understanding of the process is basic at the very least.</div>
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So when a few months ago the sculptor Scott Shaw told me that he would cast a sculpture</div>
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the gallery I asked if it was possible for him to send me photographs of the work in progress.</div>
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I had no idea of what to expect I just wanted to feel involvement with the sculpture</div>
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Before it eventually arrived here.</div>
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Over a period of many weeks Scott sent me regular updates, images and descriptions of what </div>
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he was doing and how it was done.</div>
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I was staggered.</div>
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I really had had no idea of the scale of his task.</div>
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From the hundreds of photographs I received I have compiled a series which I hope</div>
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will give an idea of the work, skill and dedication involved to make this wonderful piece of art</div>
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RIBBONS OF BONE</div>
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From the plaster mold taken from the original sculpture wax castings were made</div>
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Later these would then be used to create a ceramic "shell" into which the bronze would</div>
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be poured</div>
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The complex nature of the sculpture meant many pieces were molded, some in sections<br />
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Constant thought of how and where the bronze would flow and how the shells would hold together</div>
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A cup is created which when melted will act as a funnel </div>
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The waxes receive their first coating of shell</div>
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Zircon mined from volcanoes is used to make a slurry for the coating</div>
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Before then being dusted with molochite </div>
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Eight coats in total, one a day </div>
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The completed shells need then to be "burnt out" to remove</div>
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the wax.</div>
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This leaves hollow shells which are then kiln fired to harden them further</div>
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The hardened shells being buried upside down with the funnels at the top which are covered to protect the inside from contamination</div>
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This is the "mistake" out of sequence image of the wax being burnt from the shell molds<br />
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Molten bronze being poured into the empty shells<br />
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After eventually cooling the fun starts as the shells are smashed apart </div>
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to reveal the hardened bronze</div>
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Once removed they are cleaned and then sand blasted </div>
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Before the long delicate process of welding the many pieces together, the joins ground down,</div>
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detail restored before sanding down</div>
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Seven stages of sanding by hand</div>
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Each with a finer grade to give the fine smooth tactile surface that we associate with bronze</div>
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Joined, polished but still far from complete</div>
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Unfortunately bronze is still associated with a brown coloring</div>
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But that really is now a thing of the past, the finish or patination is limited only by the imagination and the experience of the artist.</div>
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Creating the patina is a skill in its own right</div>
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Many foundries employ someone just for this, and many sculptors may choose a foundry</div>
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just because of that persons ability.</div>
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Fortunately Scott Shaw has the ability to create, cast and patinate.</div>
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Here are his photographs of the nearly completed piece as he works his magic</div>
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Finishing the sculpture as his mind conceived it</div>
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Finished?</div>
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Almost, just a marble base to cut</div>
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Here it is again.</div>
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Just a quick sculpture he knocked out.</div>
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I think that now I am perhaps more confused now than before about the whole making process.</div>
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But I do know that I will never look at a bronze sculpture in the same way ever again</div>
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Especially this one</div>
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I will have to return to this with more detailed images and Scott's own story about his creation.</div>
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As I have been writing I have had to pause many times to admire and touch the sculpture.</div>
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It really is a work of art.</div>
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But as a "recap" here are some detail images of artworks in the gallery,</div>
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Photographed as they were when I walked around this morning.</div>
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I have in the past, and will in the future continue to try and portray the various works as they</div>
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are and in their entirety.</div>
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But perhaps these represent things as you would remember them after a visiting.</div>
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As an example.</div>
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I could imagine someone trying to describe this ceramic bottle after a visit.</div>
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" I can't remember the shape but I know it had birds flying on it".</div>
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We all do it. </div>
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It's a hard job but someone's got to do it.</div>
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Glad it's me.</div>
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Two days ago I looked at the 'Twitter' page of an artist that I know.</div>
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Of course being Twitter I didn't expect to read much but what as of interest to me were </div>
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the photographs that she had attached with it.</div>
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They weren't that good and hadn't really been thought about or composed with any seriousness,</div>
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There was her in a bookshop, her on a tube train holding flowers, a detail of the flowers.</div>
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Everyday photographs </div>
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Nothing of any great interest but combined they told the story of her day.</div>
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It made me think that this is something that I don't do.</div>
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There are times when perhaps I have made a journey or done something different to the norm</div>
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I may perhaps write a little more, but basically I never tell about a normal day.</div>
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So today I am going to try and give an idea of what my normal day is like,</div>
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The good thing is I'm not going to write about it, I will just try with photographs</div>
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to tell the story of an average day at the gallery.</div>
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Showing "snapshot" images of the things I see on a daily basis.</div>
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Starting as enter the village of Long Melford and arrive at the gallery</div>
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Followed by various artworks and objects I saw while wandering around this morning.</div>
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After finishing the previous post I remembered that there were other paintings that I had</div>
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That's a pity it's too late now, I thought.</div>
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But rather than wait another couple of months before I was ready to write again I have decided to show them to you while they are still fresh to me and before I had time to forget them again,</div>
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even if this means writing even less than usual. </div>
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Is the artist who created the first three paintings shown.</div>
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Her paintings are a delight and all have such a strong narrative,</div>
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It is little wonder that she is an illustrator of books.</div>
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I have always loved her art and it feels great to have something new here to exhibit.</div>
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The next artist is someone I have known for sometime now.</div>
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Tim Walton</div>
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He is an artist whose work many people have seen but without being aware of it</div>
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as he has worked extensively in the world of films.</div>
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Special affects and backgrounds created by him have appeared in many "blockbuster" movies.</div>
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At the time I first met him he was busy creating "skyscapes" for the film version of the musical</div>
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'Les Miserables'.</div>
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When not working for cinema he returns to his first love of painting.</div>
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Tim's landscape paintings are full of drama and have an "old master" feel about them.</div>
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To fully appreciate them they have to be touched as well as seen as he uses different mediums mixed with the paints to give them a texture which helps add to the feeling of great age</div>
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This time I was very fortunate as Tim agreed to let me also have his initial 'Study' paintings on paper</div>
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which were created before he embarked upon the the very large oil on canvas paintings.</div>
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Although much smaller in scale they are wonderful in their own rite.</div>
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As you can see they are also different to the finished master painting and I find it very</div>
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where his thought process is taking him.</div>
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Although it is unlikely to happen I really hope that the purchaser of these works takes both the study and the master as I think they need to be seen together to fully appreciate them,<br />
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Anyway that concludes my little "catch up" on the new paintings that we have received during the past month or so, and fortunately for me I haven't had to do much writing.</div>
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However that will have to change next time as I have a lot to show and tell about another artist,</div>
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on that occasion it will take more than a few words to describe his creation process.</div>
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Before the year slips away I decided it was time to write a few words and show a few pictures.</div>
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This year Christmas at the gallery caught me unprepared, which seems an odd thing to say considering that I have had a years notice that it would be happening.</div>
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It was because of my little hospital holiday and the recouperation that followed that I was unprepared.</div>
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Although now I am pleased to say that I am back full time in the gallery I am paying the price for such a long absence.</div>
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Not so much my absence from the gallery but the fact that I missed out on many of my regular visits to see artists at their studios and the fairs at which they exhibit during the summer months.</div>
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This is still a problem as I haven't yet returned to driving but it is something that will be resolved early in the New Year.</div>
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This has been the first Christmas that we have not held a seasonal exhibition.</div>
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We intended and would have liked to have done so, but of course all artists and craftspeople like to have a little notice. But of course because of my preoccupation on my health the weeks slipped past.</div>
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By the time I was able to focus more on gallery events it was far too late to approach anyone, allowing them enough time to prepare. So this December there was no special opening with Mulled wine and minced pies.</div>
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Fortunately this did not mean that we had nothing new to exhibit as fortunately there were artists</div>
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who have been supplying various beautiful artworks to us in recent months.</div>
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So this is my chance to show a little of it.</div>
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For a long time I have been "lusting" for one particular painting and at last it is here on display.</div>
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It is the painting of the sleeping child.</div>
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I was thrilled and slightly nervous when the artist Wendy Mould arrived to deliver her paintings on her first visit to the gallery.</div>
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I have admired her work [especially that painting] for so long I had placed her on a pedestal</div>
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Now I have gotten over my awe I look forward to more visits and hope that we build a long working relationship. </div>
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It is visits like this that have all helped with my recovery, it meant my thoughts and desires were returning to normal.</div>
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Another long anticipated visit was from the artist Jeffrey Courtney.</div>
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It was perhaps two years ago that I first took delivery of a painting from Jeffrey,</div>
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It was titled 'Girl in a Gallery', the same name as the one above, in fact very much like the one above </div>
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but with one major difference, it was huge.</div>
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Although greatly admired it was the very size that stopped the chance of a sale, many people wanted the painting and left with the dimensions but unfortunately there was no one with an area for such a large piece.</div>
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It was reluctantly returned to the artist along with my explanation for the disapointing result.</div>
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The immediate response from Jeffrey was,</div>
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"would you like me to paint a smaller version"? This is now on display in the gallery.</div>
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I have often wondered, what the painting that holds girls attention?</div>
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It must be good.</div>
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Of course the shop would never seem normal without having some paintings or prints by </div>
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No sooner was his exhibition finished and I was pestering him for more work, so we had a visit to look forward to from George and wife Birgit to deliver a mixture of paintings and Artist Proof prints.</div>
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Here are just a few.</div>
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These will have to suffice for a few months as we have a new solo exhibition with George planned</div>
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At least I am not going to get caught out with lack of preparation towards the end of next year.</div>
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In fact I intend to start talking with artists about next Christmas some time next week.</div>
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Last but not least.</div>
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Almost like a Christmas present a new artwork from Michael Parkes arrived early in December.</div>
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DARK UNICORN.</div>
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Just in time to frame and place in the window for the festive season.</div>
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This summer was not the one I had anticipated it to be, I had been hoping to take a few days off</div>
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but instead I had a long and unexpected break, and not a good one.</div>
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In the words of John Lennon,"Life happens while we are busy making other plans".</div>
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As I explained in my previous post I had been busy preparing for our next exhibition,</div>
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it had been scheduled a long time ago and although there was still a few months to go I was becoming</div>
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increasingly excited at the prospect and there was still a lot of planning to do.</div>
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However, I didn't plan on having a major stroke.</div>
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That was something that came as an unpleasant surprise,</div>
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and as a result most of my summer was spent in a hospital.</div>
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The stroke happened on what would have been a normal day in the gallery,</div>
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but now I appreciate that I will never have another "normal" day again.</div>
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I lost the use of one side of my body.</div>
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It was told by a doctor that I had had "a life changing experience".</div>
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And that is true</div>
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I had lost the use of one side of my body,</div>
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I couldn't walk, move my arm hand or fingers, but I was very lucky I could still talk.</div>
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So for a long all that I did do is talk as I started on the long road of learning how to use my body again.</div>
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Fortunately I had a fantastic team of physiotherapist's who worked with me each day,</div>
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they taught me how to stand, to move my leg and after a month how to take a step.</div>
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With each day that passed my constant goal was to be back at the gallery for the opening of the new exhibition.</div>
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While I was away the family had become a team and they were running the gallery.</div>
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In fact I think it has now become "our" gallery instead of "my" gallery,</div>
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so perhaps some good has come from my experience.</div>
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Of course the fact that I am writing this means I am "back at work",</div>
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I am still learning to use my body again and that will take time, but I am back.</div>
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I did achieve my goal of returning for the exhibition, in fact the opening day was my first full day</div>
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It was tiring but what a great day to be back.</div>
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It was to be our busiest most attended exhibition ever, with hundreds of people visiting during the course of the day.</div>
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The opening coincided with the 40th anniversary of Marc Bolan's death,</div>
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as a result the walls contained many of the artworks that George Underwood had created of him during his short lifetime.</div>
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Along with portraits the album covers were also exhibited.</div>
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The one shown below is from the 1976 album 'Futuristic Dragon'.</div>
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What made this of special interest is that George was able to give us a copy of the original concept sketch for the cover drawn and given to him by Marc Bolan.</div>
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This along with a drawing by David Bowie for the 'Space Oddity' album gave the exhibition a greater dimension. It really brought the art to life and explained some of the history of George's relationship with these two iconic musicians.</div>
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Of course they were not the only "stars" that he has painted and worked with, the exhibition covers</div>
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some 50 years of music history.</div>
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Rock and Roll'</div>
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Here is a picture of the artist himself, taken just after he signed the banner outside the gallery.</div>
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Here are a few pics of the day</div>
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In fact it is Danielz the singer with the band T. Rextasy who played a live acoustic show for us at the opening. </div>
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After my long break I couldn't have had a better return to both the gallery and life itself.</div>
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This will perhaps be the smallest post that I have done.</div>
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To be honest none of them have been overlong, but at least they have had more images.</div>
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Thinking ahead for our next exhibition which isn't until September, there is perhaps something that I should mention. We are having our first ever 'pre-sale' of artwork.</div>
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The coming exhibition is from the George Underwood collection of "Musician portraits'.</div>
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I think that by now the world knows of his lifelong friendship with David Bowie.</div>
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What many people do not know that George himself was also a musician, in fact many years ago when they were young men he and Bowie had their own band.</div>
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Their school days together almost read as a 'rock 'n' roll' fairy tale.</div>
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Their art teacher [George's mentor] was Owen Frampton, father of Peter Frampton who went on to become one of the most successful English guitarists of all time.</div>
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What a melting pot of talent that school must have been.</div>
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George did pursue a musical career of his own joining many bands and eventually pursuing a solo career as a recording artist, but throughout his young life it seems that art was his first love</div>
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that he constantly returned to. </div>
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I will tell no more of his extraordinary tale, George tells it so much better in his own book.</div>
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Soulful Warriors</div>
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It just remains to say that throughout his career music was a strong influence both on him and his art.</div>
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So it is strange to learn that many people have little knowledge of his musical artwork.</div>
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I think it would be safe to say that at some time many music lovers have admired of purchased an album featuring his artwork without knowledge of who the artist was.</div>
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Of course the album 'Hunky Dory' by his friend David Bowie changed all of this.</div>
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The rest [or some of it] is history, as they say.</div>
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So our exhibition will show a history of his musical hero's, influences and his friends.</div>
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One of those friends was the founder of the band T REX</div>
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Bolan and Bowie were friends, as a result David introduced George his old mate to Marc</div>
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Who had a new album coming out titled</div>
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'My People Were Fair and had Sky in Their Hair.............'</div>
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As a result George painted the cover, and in his own words "never looked back".</div>
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This was at the age of 21.</div>
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Now, just a few years [decades] later it is logical that George would re-visit these relationships</div>
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for his exhibition here at our gallery.</div>
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So in conversation with me it was decided that he would produce two new paintings of</div>
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David Bowie and Marc Bolan.</div>
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The painting of Marc is really appropriate as the exhibition is to open on the 40th anniversary</div>
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of his untimely death.</div>
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In honor of this the famous tribute band T. REXTASY will attend the opening of the exhibition</div>
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to play an acoustic set of some of his most famous songs.</div>
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Of course many original paintings by George will be available for sale,</div>
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Accompanied by a large selection of of limited edition 'fine art' prints of paintings previously sold.</div>
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As a promotion for the exhibition it has been decided to produce the two new paintings</div>
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as a special affordable limited edition of signed prints.</div>
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Since they were first offered for sale a day ago the response has been outstanding.</div>
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Time flies when your having fun, or especially when you are always thinking about the future.</div>
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Or as described better by John Lennon</div>
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"Life is what happens while your busy making other plans".</div>
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That is what I have been guilty of, "making other plans" or thinking of the future,</div>
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Meanwhile important events have been happening while I have been planning ahead.</div>
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I can only explain it by describing how on a daily basis I will have someone tell me</div>
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"You have such beautiful things on display",</div>
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My thoughts will be "just wait until you see what is coming".</div>
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I think this each and every day, but for me tomorrow never comes </div>
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I'm definitely a person who has a cup half full, and when things sell I start to panic about where I can find something equally as beautiful to replace "that" piece with.</div>
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So I start to search.</div>
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Then I want to tell you about who I have just discovered. </div>
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I want to tell you about "this"or"that" artist whose work will be here one day, then I tend to get over excited and undecided about what to mention first, so don't write anything at all. </div>
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This does tend to make life much easier for a lazy person like myself.</div>
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"Hhmmmm! What shall I write about"?</div>
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'Nothing', job done.</div>
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So today, I decided to take a step back to reality and talk about art that actually is here</div>
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Art that I am excited about and which I am very proud to be exhibiting.</div>
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The last time I picked up my pen I mentioned an artist whose work I was looking forward to arriving.</div>
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It's now here.</div>
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The paintings of Jimmy Lawlor.</div>
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Jimmy is an artist I have admired for a very long time, his beautiful paintings are the</div>
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"stuff that dreams are made of".</div>
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In fact they seem to come from dreams or very poignant stories. </div>
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Perhaps, 'poignant' isn't the correct description</div>
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Because apart from being very moving they sometimes also possess a great deal of humor.</div>
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They are beautiful in there execution and also great fun, they occupy a space in our imagination</div>
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Yet, they are also very "human" paintings, they show images of us as we were, as we are</div>
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And how we will be.</div>
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Age is very prevalent in all of his art.</div>
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So too are the landscapes.</div>
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To me it is obvious where these people of different ages all live.</div>
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Ireland</div>
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Albeit a different version to the reality of the location, yet still instantly recognizable. </div>
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As is shown in the painting above they also express a great gentleness and sensitivity.</div>
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The painting below is perhaps one of my favorites.</div>
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It really captures the world of my childhood.</div>
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It reminds be of the wonderful book 'Bevis a Story of a Boy', by Richard Jeffries</div>
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Although it was written in 1882 the story of a young boy and his adventures is timeless.</div>
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So is this painting.</div>
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A boy, with his best friend and his vivid imagination, what an exciting world.</div>
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I truly love this, it makes me feel young again.</div>
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I suppose that is the power of art, your age may change but your inner emotions don't and at times</div>
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All it needs is a painting or sculpture to unlock time and join the two together.</div>
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A clever, talented and very nice man.</div>
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I have wanted to exhibit his art for six years, some things are worth waiting for.</div>
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Now, onto something just slightly different. </div>
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I was recommended by a painter [that's how it works] to look at the sculptures by a Russian artist.</div>
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'Tatiana' or Tanya as it is pronounced in our little island</div>
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Despite my many bilingual talents I am still unable to get my tongue around her proper name,</div>
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[Give me a week or two then speaking Russian will be another of my many talents].</div>
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Tanya creates sculptures from clay and found objects, each piece very unusual</div>
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but all with a sense of great age and history.</div>
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Of course her small antique additions help create the feeling of great age</div>
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But it is the story of each piece which creates the history, some of her sculptures will have more than one title,</div>
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It seems that she has named pieces to help with the English interpretation and understanding of each sculpture. </div>
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She has exhibited and worked in many different countries, but now for some reason she works</div>
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Her work defies being placed into any category but it does really engage the imagination.</div>
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When I have fully caught up with my very belated posts I will tell and show much more of her work.</div>
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Meanwhile, I have lots more to tell you about.</div>
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But as they say</div>
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"That's for Another day." </div>
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Recently, I have become excited about different artworks that will be arriving in the near future.</div>
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I wanted to share them immediately even though I am not sure of the arrival date.</div>
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The reason for that is they are still being created.</div>
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But, that's no reason to not show them I thought, as it is always the anticipation of what will arrive </div>
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that can be the most exciting of times in the gallery.</div>
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The excitement and the desire becomes almost like a drug</div>
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I just know I won't be happy until it is here in my possession for a little while.</div>
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Then I remembered that with all of the current nonsense going on that has distracted me somewhat,</div>
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that there were many deserving exhibits that had "slipped through my net" and not been shown.</div>
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I decided that it was time to play "catch up".</div>
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So here are a few [very few] images of pieces that should have been shown as they arrived.</div>
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I will add others over a period of time.</div>
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[It is no good me saying tomorrow, because sometimes for me tomorrow never comes].</div>
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One man is long overdue for a mention, Noah.</div>
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Yes that's correct Noah.</div>
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He may have not yet created an Ark but he has come very close.</div>
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It is impossible to put his work in any "pigeon hole" all I can say is that it is very unique.</div>
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He works on many different scales from small delicate silver and bronze containers</div>
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To giant size tables standing on antique industrial wheels.</div>
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His work [for me] has a slightly 'Jules Verne' nostalgic feel about it, and as suspected the evolvement</div>
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Of his sculptures have a history of their own.</div>
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In time I will feature many of his smaller works.</div>
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The artistic creations of this incredible young woman are equally hard to describe and to show you.</div>
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Viewed "front on" they look like paintings</div>
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Which in fact they are, but paintings with a great difference.</div>
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They are 3 dimensional artworks.</div>
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In fact she told me that being unable to describe them to galleries has really hindered her.</div>
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"It seems that my work has to be a painting or a sculpture but not both", she told me.</div>
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In the past she has even tried to describe them as a collage, but that didn't work either</div>
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as it seems it would then have to incorporate printed paper, which it doesn't.</div>
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So for want of a description it is sometimes ignored and goes unseen.</div>
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I just call it beautiful</div>
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Works for me.</div>
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I hope that the images shown explain a little of how her work really looks.</div>
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It is painted on 'chamois' leather attached to wood, which is then cut out and built in layers</div>
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Which create a 3D painting.</div>
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To view them from side to side is an education.</div>
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At least this doesn't need an explanation.</div>
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It is a "very" limited edition print that I am thrilled to have from an American artist.</div>
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The edition is of '91' prints which is very unusual.</div>
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Framed, and hanging on the wall in front of my desk it is an image that I have enjoyed</div>
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each day since its arrival.</div>
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I have tried many times to work out the story within the picture, yet every day I imagine another.</div>
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The art shown above are a sample of what has arrived and is now on display.</div>
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However, I couldn't help myself and I had to show you just a hint of what we will have in the future.</div>
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So below are two examples of what will be arriving very soon.</div>
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I won't say anything about the artist or what we will be exhibiting of his art at the moment</div>
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But I can tell you that we will not have these two paintings.</div>
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They are sold.</div>
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Although limited edition prints are available of both. </div>
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The paintings that I have chosen and those still being created I will leave to your imagination</div>
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Until that day when I can show them to you as a complete group.</div>
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Will I ever write on my Blog again?</div>
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I have been asking myself this question for a very long time. Since I last posted the world seems to have changed a great deal, and to say that events have left me angry and frustrated would be an understatement.</div>
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So to write about myself and the gallery seemed a very shallow thing to do when there is so many important and life changing events happening everywhere.</div>
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On consideration, I realized that the whole purpose of my Blog was just to talk about events that happen in my life and a art gallery in a rural part of England.</div>
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Whoops! I nearly went off on one then with the word "England".</div>
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Now, back to reality and really important events.</div>
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My events.</div>
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Early last year we held a fantastic exhibition by the artist George Underwood.</div>
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Perhaps you may remember that George had been David Bowie's lifelong friend from the age of nine.</div>
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There friendship and adventures together have been well documented, and of course George's paintings of his friend have been exhibited worldwide, plus also at our gallery.</div>
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At the conclusion of our solo exhibition with George my thoughts were</div>
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"That was great fun, I wish we could do it again".</div>
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Of course we always have a selection of his art on display in the gallery but I wanted to repeat the fun and excitement of holding a special solo exhibition with him.</div>
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The response from the public had been fantastic, to the extent we even held a "closing day" event,</div>
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this was a first for us and was held so that his fans had a chance to have a "one on one"</div>
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conversation with him, although that didn't happen as he gathered everyone around him and it turned into a group session/interview which was loved by everyone.</div>
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As I walked around the gallery dealing with everyday customers I could hear in the background laughter and applause.</div>
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"What am I missing"? I wondered. </div>
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That evening it was all recounted for me by George, his wife and Irene.</div>
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What a day, what an exhibition. How I would like to experience it again.</div>
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A few days later the opportunity for such a unique event presented itself.</div>
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In his long career and also from his friendship with David Bowie George has met and painted portraits and album covers for many famous musicians.</div>
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Some were created for his own private collection but many were used by the artists.</div>
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One such artist/musician was the "late" Marc Bolan.</div>
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An incredible musician who tragically died far too young and at the height of his musical career.</div>
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He has left behind a giant fan base and even inspired the now famous tribute band, "T.Rextasy".</div>
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A tribute to the name of his own first band "Tyannosaurus Rex".</div>
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T. Rex as it became known.</div>
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The singer and founder of the tribute band is a lovely man name Danielz.</div>
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Because of the exhibition with George Underwood, Danielz came to the gallery and left me with the cover of an early Marc Bolan album [created by George[ which George had promised to sign for him.</div>
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A few weeks later Danielz returned to collect the signed cover. </div>
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By this time I had given much thought to a "follow up" to the Underwood exhibition.</div>
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So, in conversation with this charming musician/artist/singer I asked "did he play acoustic"?</div>
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"What an idiot", he must have thought.</div>
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He explained that the band had just done a fully acoustic Gig in the nearby town 5 miles away.</div>
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In fact with his band they intersperse full sessions with "unplugged" gigs.</div>
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Which makes perfect sense as much of Marc Bolan's earlier work was acoustic folk music.</div>
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So, to cut a very, very long story short.</div>
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We will be holding a solo exhibition by George Underwood this September.</div>
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It will be an exhibition with a difference, it will consist of all of his music portraits and album covers,</div>
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Some for sale, some on loan from his collection, but with new paintings and many Limited Editions</div>
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created especially for the exhibition.</div>
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The main focus of the exhibition will be his art of Marc Bolan.</div>
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Marc died on September -16 - 1977</div>
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Our exhibition open on September -17 - 2017</div>
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On the 40th anniversary of his death our exhibition opens, and to mark this very special event</div>
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Danielz and his drummer John Skelton will be here in the gallery to play an acoustic session in tribute to the late musician.</div>
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The music of Marc Bolan will be played in front of a background of paintings by George.</div>
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It will be unlike any event we have done before, and I expect ever again.</div>
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I think the term is "once in a lifetime".</div>
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There is a great deal of planning to be done, idea's are growing as I write.</div>
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Even today a visitor asked will you hold an "Evening with George Underwood" the night before?</div>
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Wow! Now that's an idea. </div>
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Anyway at the end of this month all parties are meeting to discuss the growing plans so I will keep you "posted".</div>
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I confess I am scared as I think that the event will be "BIG".</div>
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I had not intended to talk about this for another couple of months or so, but as people have started to call/email asking for "ticket" availability I have started to become really focused.</div>
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Of course we will be holding some lovely exhibitions before this date, but in terms of planning</div>
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they will almost seem a "walk in the park".</div>
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This does not mean they are any less important or be treated less seriously but the logistics will be more what we are used to.</div>
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Because of this I am looking forward to them with greater pleasure.</div>
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So, if you are a music fan and have a free day in September.</div>
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Get in touch soon.</div>
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Of course what is shown above is just a small selection of George's music portraits and album covers,</div>
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a very small sample of what to expect.</div>
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The exception is the first image, which is of a poster produced be Danielz which is available at </div>
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his many Gigs.</div>
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At the moment he is playing around the country almost every night, his only days off are when he is traveling to the next venue.</div>
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Check his website [we are listed as a "unplugged" Gig]. </div>
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I am glad that I did write again.</div>
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As I was writing I could visualize how the event might unfold and look and I have become very excited.</div>
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So, tonight I will not return home and watch the news on TV,</div>
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I am in a much happier place.</div>
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Our Christmas exhibition opened a couple of weeks ago but until today I haven't shown any of the</div>
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Varied art pieces that have arrived.</div>
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The exception being the amazing "Pop-Up" book by Anne Bachelier.</div>
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Which really has to be seen to be appreciated, if only it wasn't a "one of a kind" we could all enjoy</div>
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owning a copy.</div>
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As the cover of the invitation [shown above] suggests the exhibition is titled</div>
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A Christmas Carol.</div>
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It would have been great to have every exhibit centred upon the old novel</div>
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But in reality this was an exhibition that was open to interpretation by the various artist involved.</div>
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To my delight everything received captured a little of the innocence and magic of Christmas.</div>
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'Nom', the artist we recently exhibited went out of her way to create something with a nostalgic feeling.</div>
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She also created it in little time and under great pressure.</div>
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I had asked her if she could create something really special for the exhibition,</div>
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I knew she could and would,</div>
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But with the needs of a little girl and a new baby to care for I think that her attention was focused</div>
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on many other things and she was forgetting how close Christmas was becoming.</div>
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She gave me a call telling me that she had purchased an antique clock case to be the frame</div>
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for her Christmas painting. "What do you think", she asked?</div>
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"Fantastic, just the sort of thing I have been wishing for, but have you enough time?</div>
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When does the exhibition start?</div>
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In a weeks time.</div>
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Oh! I had better stop talking and get painting".</div>
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One week later, and two hours before the opening Nom arrived with her finished painting.</div>
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I think it is easy to see why I like her so much.</div>
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Even better she arrived with her husband</div>
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The illustrator 'Adam Oehler'.</div>
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Adam had also produced two artworks for the exhibition.</div>
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Both in his very unique and innocent style. Which seems strange as he had just finished animation work</div>
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on a video for the "Heavy Metal" band Metallica, which was far from innocent.</div>
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His personal work is always innocent [and very collected], and I don't think it will be long before we are all owning a copy of his new book.</div>
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Adam and Nom, both totally different artists, both very nice people, both very talented.</div>
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I have been yearning for the sculptures of a very modest sculptor for some time.</div>
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Sometimes, although it is frustrating the wait is all worthwhile, and so it was with "Barry".</div>
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A very modest [extremely so] sculptor who had worked for the British Museum of Natural History.</div>
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His own personal work covers many different styles and interests.</div>
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From detailed wildlife sculptures to his beautiful recreations from Alice in Wonderland.</div>
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It was these that he drove for hours to deliver to us.</div>
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'The Walrus and The Carpenter'.</div>
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Both sculptural recreations of the illustrations by John Tenniel featured in the original version of the famous book.</div>
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They are "smoked fired" to replicate the "black and white" quality of the drawings.</div>
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The Carpenter is even "shedding a bitter tear" and at both their feet are the Oysters that they eat.</div>
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The man is a genius and I really hope to exhibit more of his work next year.</div>
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Something totally different is a cabinet which is a collaboration.</div>
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The cabinet made by myself many years ago from reclaimed Elm floorboards.</div>
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It has been put aside for decades, I don't know why really but I never thought it was complete.</div>
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This year I discovered the perfect artist to complete, transform and improve the object.</div>
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Despite the fact that it would be weeks of work at the wrong time of the year a wonderful woman</div>
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"Jo Anne" undertook to finish the cabinet for me.</div>
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I feel that her input was perhaps greater than my own, however I now look at the finished piece</div>
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With the feeling that it is at last perfect.</div>
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Inside is another piece of her art, to see that you will need to visit the gallery.</div>
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It is titled 'Sleeping Beauty" cabinet.</div>
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After another long wait [months], at last the first of the highly unusual sculptures and paintings</div>
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arrived from another artist that I admire, Jill Desbo.</div>
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Some of her creations very serious others not so, but all with a large amount of imagination and work devoted to their creation.</div>
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One of my personal favourites is this sculpture/puppet titled</div>
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"Mrs Thackeray's Theatre".</div>
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Her dress [stage curtains] part to reveal the audience inside watching the performance.</div>
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With rods her hands can clap and her head will turn.</div>
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Although it's hard to see, a bird nest complete with chicks perches upon her sheep s wool hair,</div>
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But I don't think Mrs Thackeray has noticed [she doesn't wash it often].</div>
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What all of them are watching I do not know, but perhaps it is a performance by another of Jill's puppets.</div>
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We have them all.</div>
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An artist who did a special painting directly related to the title is Jane Ford.</div>
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"The Poor of the Parish". is the title.</div>
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I think that it is perhaps not what Dickens was thinking of when he wrote the book</div>
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But for Jane it is a version of her Wild Life adapted to fit the theme of the exhibition.</div>
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It is certainly innocent.</div>
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But when it comes to childish innocence I could exhibit nothing better than 'Wind in the Willows'.</div>
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Or at least this fantastic creation of Ratty's home by the riverside.</div>
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I have tried many, many, many times to take a photograph of this sculpture.</div>
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None of them work, or show the true detail so I will have to describe it instead.</div>
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Built inside a Victorian cabinet with glass doors is a perfect miniature cottage, Ratty's cottage.</div>
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Complete with water and a jetty where Ratty is sitting beside his boat fishing [with fish in his basket].</div>
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It is a night time scene, the moon [illuminated in the sky] reflects upon the water.</div>
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Inside the cottage "Mole" is asleep next to a jar of cider, the fire is alight and windows illuminated.</div>
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The attention to detail is beyond belief, bottles, jars and box's sit upon shelves. </div>
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Washing hangs from lines and candles sit in lamps, probably to help when climbing the stairs.</div>
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Obviously Ratty is a creature of thought as outside on the jetty is a telescope aimed at the moon, but this is nestled amongst baskets rubbish and flotsam he has collected.</div>
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At the base of the cabinet [beneath the cottage] is a drawer.</div>
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Opening this reveals a limited edition of 'Wind in the Willows'.</div>
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The whole piece of art is a total "one of a kind" there will never be another. It is a creation that makes me feel like a young boy each time I look at it.</div>
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Of course it sold instantly, but fortunately the buyer has let us retain it for two weeks, so it is giving pleasure to many visitors who think like me, children disguised as adults.</div>
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I will be sorry to see it leave the gallery as I will never see its like again, but at least for a short time it has been mine.</div>
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Thinking of the magic and innocence of such a piece I wanted to share it with someone.</div>
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I couldn't think of anyone better than my friend and artist Rachel.</div>
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A self confessed "Peter Pan" [I have never grown up] I just knew she would love it.</div>
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She did.</div>
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As a result the day before the exhibition opened I received her own piece of art inspired by the book.</div>
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BADGER</div>
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Her version of the old and wise Badger, beautiful in detail and cast in Bronze.</div>
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I love him.</div>
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Perhaps Rachel is not alone as being a Peter Pan</div>
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There is a part of us that never grows up, in this bad world sometimes we all want to hide our eyes</div>
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and make the bad things go away.</div>
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This is what I wanted this exhibition to speak of.</div>
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Innocence and childhood.</div>
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Although there is still a month to go, our Christmas exhibition opens next Sunday.</div>
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I would make the usual excuses about why I haven't shown anything as yet but sometimes,</div>
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just sometimes it is not all my fault.</div>
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There are things that I am excited about and would like to show but I am unable to</div>
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The reason being that many are still being created as we speak.<br />
They are all worth waiting for.</div>
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I am very excited about their arrival and I have seen many pictures of</div>
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"work in progress"<br />
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The finished artworks promise to be very special but they can't be shown in their entirety</div>
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until they arrive here in the gallery.</div>
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Until then I thought it worthwhile to show you some "teaser" pictures of some pieces that are still being created.</div>
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The first is by the artist Anne Bachelier.</div>
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This is to be a very special piece of art, she is creating a book.</div>
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I should first explain that the title for the exhibition is "A Christmas Carol"</div>
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A theme taken from the famous book by Charles Dickens, a story that I have loved from the age of nine. Every Christmas I read it again and each time it still holds the same magic for me.</div>
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I think that it captures the spirit [or three] and the innocence of the occasion and with every reading it still makes me feel young again.</div>
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Stupid I know, but it makes me smile and think of better times when the world didn't seem as bad.</div>
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A time when Christmas was about magic.</div>
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For many years I have intended this book to be the theme for a Christmas show.</div>
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This year it is happening.</div>
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Anne Bachelier was one of the first artists that I approached to be involved.</div>
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Fortunately her imagination, creativity and ability far out exceeds my own, but the idea</div>
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excited her in the same way as it had me.<br />
From our initial conversation we were comparing ideas and inspirations, it was exciting as I had someone who shared the same vision, plus the ability to make it happen.<br />
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Anne offered to create her version of the book</div>
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Not just a version illustrated by her but a very special childish version,</div>
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It was to be a "Pop-Up" book.</div>
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I am sure that the idea of something like that makes us all remember Christmas as a child.</div>
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The idea of something like that really excited me.</div>
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The perfect Christmas art, created by the perfect artist for such a task.</div>
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A Pop-Up book for adults.</div>
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The creation of the book has taken many months, and is still to be finished.</div>
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That she was prepared to attempt such a project is testament to her creativity and work ethos. </div>
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Especially considering that this has been one of her busiest and most productive years with exhibitions back to back in many different countries.</div>
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But to know Anne you understand that she lives to create, she travels with her brushes and paints each and every day.</div>
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However the creation of this special book was so much more than painting,</div>
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It was creating paintings that were then cut by hand to fit and fold behind other paintings.</div>
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Also the whole book has been handwritten with her beautiful script,</div>
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In English I might add, which certainly must have been an enormous task.</div>
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[Of course not for myself, being multi-lingual and fluent in all languages, especially Cockney].</div>
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The thing that I find most amazing is that each page works as a "stand alone" painting.</div>
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Just because there has been so much work to do has not tempted her to cut corners or create</div>
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I eagerly await its arrival, when it does I will turn each page slowly.</div>
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This will be a once in a lifetime experience.</div>
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I can't thank Anne enough for taking the time and effort to indulge my passion for this project.</div>
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It speaks volumes about her, her generosity and willingness to help a friend.</div>
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I know that I will never own the book but what a wonderful present for the gallery.<br />
I can't wait to show you the finished book,</div>
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I really do feel like a child awaiting the magic of Christmas.</div>
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Here at last is a small selection of sculptures that form the other half of our current exhibition.</div>
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They are by the artist Evelyne Galinski.</div>
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A year ago Evelyne contacted me asking would I be interested in seeing some of her sculptures?</div>
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She was traveling from France to deliver work to one of her many UK customers and she offered to call at the gallery before returning home.</div>
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After seeing a couple of images of her work I could never say no.</div>
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This sculpture was so good it was an opportunity not to be missed.</div>
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So, a couple of weeks later she arrived here at my doorstep.</div>
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She is one of those artists whose work has to be seen to be fully appreciated.</div>
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It is very complex yet at the same time very gentle and beguiling, there are stories to be told about Each unique piece of sculpture.</div>
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I am sure that my own interpretations of her work will differ from her own</div>
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I was really intrigued in the way her work was created</div>
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So on her visit here she showed me many pictures of the work in progress.</div>
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One image has been fixed on my mind ever since, it was a white hot sculpture with rain cascading upon it.</div>
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Well that is what I thought.</div>
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However, it was not rain but sawdust scattered in the air</div>
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Where the random flakes hit the hot surface of the ceramic it ignited and changed the surface.</div>
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I really wanted to have these images to show you as they were so dramatic,</div>
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Unfortunately for me Evelyne is in the progress of producing a book where the photographs will be Shown for the first time so I had to suffice with just a few close up shots of her working.</div>
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Her sculptures are sized from those just a few inches tall to others of a giant proportions.</div>
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Whatever the size the attention to detail is superb, they can only really be appreciated in the flesh.</div>
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There are details and shapes in area's that would not easily be seen</div>
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I am sure that can be done, I am unable to do that for you.</div>
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What I would really like to show you is just the raw emotion in each sculpture.</div>
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This is very hard to capture in a photograph but I have tried.</div>
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I can only say that my life is richer for having this work here with me for a short time.</div>
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It is all so dramatic and moving I just know that in the future</div>
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I will look back and feel amazed that I ever had this art here on display in "MY" gallery.</div>
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I'm getting very behind.</div>
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We are having a few "back to back" exhibitions and everything is starting to blur a little.</div>
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Of course the art is totally different each time but the magazines and printers</div>
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work on a different deadline to me.</div>
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It seems that as soon as we have held the opening of one exhibition I am being chased for images</div>
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of our next exhibition, or I remember that I only have a few days to design</div>
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the invitation for the next show, which in my mind seems so far away as I am still so involved</div>
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with the current exhibition.</div>
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In reality it should not be too much of a problem, but on occasions the artist for a forthcoming</div>
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exhibition doesn't understand how far in advance I need information and pictures.</div>
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But, of course there are exceptions.</div>
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In fact he was "so far ahead of the game" I found myself trying to keep up with him. </div>
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Although he is from Holland he is very collected here in the UK and America</div>
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Over two months ago he sent me small images of his new paintings so that I could have first choice</div>
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My first thought was "this is going to make it easy for me".</div>
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Because I had lots of time I dithered about "umming and ahrring"</div>
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Should I go for this one or that one?</div>
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Meanwhile his collectors were buying.</div>
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Once I understood this I became more focused and made quick decisions.</div>
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Immediately Rob sent me "Hi Resolution" pictures in case I needed them.</div>
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We have been showing Robert's art for a couple of years but this was to be his first exhibition with us.</div>
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I could not be happier.</div>
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The photographs just do not do justice to the paintings that arrived,</div>
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They are beautiful yet also different to the kind of art that I would normally want to show.</div>
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I can't put my finger on the difference but in a way I find them very sculptural.</div>
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This perhaps is because after finishing painting he then scratches though the paint to reveal the canvas.</div>
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In fact the details are actually the canvas revealed beneath the layers of paint.</div>
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The finished artwork has texture plus an almost a 3D affect.</div>
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I confess that in the past I have read the title of his paintings but then have struggled sometimes to make the painting fit the title.</div>
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Some are obvious others not so.</div>
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Then I learned that Rob plays music while he is painting, and it is the mood and atmosphere of the music that can decide the title of the painting.</div>
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It may be the title or just a few lyrics that then become the name of the painting.</div>
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I'm sure that we can all relate to that.</div>
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The way that music can make us happy or sad or can transport us to another time</div>
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memory or place. </div>
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This coupled with his professional manner has made this an [almost] easy approach to an exhibition.</div>
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Except that it put me in front for a couple of days so I decided to paint the gallery.</div>
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I am now behind as ever.</div>
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Also, Rob will be exhibiting alongside the sculptor</div>
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Whose work will arrive from France on Friday night, one day before the opening.</div>
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So it seems like it will be pressure as usual up to the wire.</div>
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I couldn't work any other way.</div>
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"Under Pressure"</div>
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Now isn't that a title of a song?</div>
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At last, although very late in the day I am telling you about our new exhibition.</div>
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It is very late in the telling, as it opened today</div>
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Of course I have many reasons for being late, and they are totally true.<br />
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It is a miracle that the artist Nom Kinnear has been able to produce an exhibition's worth of paintings.</div>
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This long desired exhibition was planned for earlier in the year until I received a call.</div>
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"Can we put back the exhibition for a later date, as I am having another baby"?</div>
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What could I say?</div>
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So the exhibition was set for a later date but it is still a miracle that it has happened.</div>
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With complications, Nom gave birth, and although she was told to rest she continued to paint whenever she could, which was not easy as also she has a young daughter to care for.</div>
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But, like all true artists she somehow continued to create whenever she could.<br />
Here are a few of her creations.</div>
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As a result of her desire for perfection coupled with being a very busy Mother<br />
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Hence at 10.00pm on the night before the private view, I finished the very last.</div>
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We have been exhibiting her work for a long time now, but this is her first exhibition at our gallery.</div>
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Because of her circumstances we are now showing the best of her last years work. </div>
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As you can see, her work is anything but normal.</div>
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She uses many different objects to be the "canvas" for her art.</div>
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For the beautiful painting above she has used the skin of on an Antique Tambourine. </div>
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Below, the surface of a very old "Zither" harp.</div>
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Another painting is on the surface of a Mandolin.</div>
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I think it would be true to say that she is a very different artist. </div>
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Her exhibition with us is titled 'Fallowmoor'.</div>
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Fallowmoor is a land of her imagination which is peopled by the figures in her paintings.</div>
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The paintings all link together and tell a story.</div>
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But although the images are from her imagination I have become to learn that some are based</div>
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Upon the features of very real people.</div>
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Including Nom and her own beautiful daughter.</div>
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Each time I talked with her I could see her face in a painting by her mother .</div>
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Although all very different each painting links to another.</div>
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However it has been the individual beauty of each piece that has captivated me.</div>
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I want to own them all, but of course I can't.<br />
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Because as I have been framing them they have been selling, which is the reason that I have shown nothing sooner.</div>
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I have been too busy framing them.</div>
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This is something which has been a difficult task, as I have wanted each frame to be different,<br />
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I confess I have been dreaming about frames.</div>
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How sad can you get?</div>
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I tell myself "this must stop I have got to get a life".</div>
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Then I look at the beautiful framed paintings and realise that I do have a life.</div>
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A very fortunate life.</div>
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What other job could give me so much pleasure? </div>
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It has seemed that today every visitor has loved a different painting.</div>
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For many different reasons of their own</div>
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Above is my own favourite.</div>
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As with all of her paintings it has a long story to go with it, but I don't need to tell you that.</div>
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When Nom handed me the painting, saying "this is for the gallery".</div>
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My immediate response was</div>
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"This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen".</div>
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I haven't changed my mind since.</div>
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Above is the short film of Anne Bachelier demonstrating at the opening of her new exhibition</div>
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Here at the gallery.</div>
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I have tried many times to show this but with no success</div>
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So if this doesn't work it is back to single pictures.</div>
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Last weekend we had the pleasure of a visit by the artist</div>
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Anne Bachelier</div>
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Anne was here to attend the opening of her second exhibition at Imagine Gallery.</div>
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She came with the company of her husband, organiser and chauffeur Claude</div>
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Who drove them both from the French Alps to our small village in England.</div>
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Excluding the time on the cross channel ferry it was a journey of 14 hours.</div>
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A sign of true love.</div>
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It must have been, as the weekend was the occasion of their 47th wedding anniversary.</div>
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Still, what better way to spend it than here in my gallery?</div>
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Well, I can think of other more romantic locations</div>
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But surely we must be a close second.</div>
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Not only did they arrive but we also had a visit from a couple of her good friends.</div>
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Her friend Philippe had come with the intention of making a short film of the exhibition.</div>
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This he did in his own very unobtrusive, very polite way [a lovely man]</div>
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It was to be made even more interesting as Anne had agreed to demonstrate her method of painting.</div>
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This she did, and to say that it was fascinating would be something of an understatement. </div>
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I was determined to capture the procedure on camera.</div>
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Unfortunately I had many distractions and people to occupy my time so I was unable to record</div>
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What amazed me was how many times the painting was altered as Anne's idea's progressed.</div>
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The painting was not completed while Anne was here, but it was a pleasure to see the progression.</div>
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Luckily the process was recorded by Philippe, and today he has sent me a copy.</div>
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Unfortunately at the moment it is too large for me to include with this post</div>
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The painting is still to be finished.</div>
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I am sure that it is totally different to anything that she might create in her own studio,</div>
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Their she creates without distraction and her idea's are very private</div>
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From her art.</div>
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Thank you Anne.</div>
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Of course I appreciate that the world has not been waiting with baited breath, but still it bothered me.</div>
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The reason I have not been motivated to write is because of the bloody 'Brexit'.</div>
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The ramifications of what has happened has had me fixated with changing events and the news </div>
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each day, I have been waiting to learn it was a great mistake.</div>
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It wasn't, we did it or half the country did and they have taken the rest of us down with them.</div>
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Just days before the referendum the 'Washington Post' predicted that it could not happen</div>
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A whole nation cannot be mad! They told us.</div>
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So it happened, and like so many people I have been in a state of shock.</div>
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Perhaps for too long.</div>
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We have a wonderful exhibition approaching that I have been busy preparing for,</div>
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I should be really happy.</div>
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I needed to forget what has happened and enjoy life.</div>
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A few months ago Irene had purchased me a ticket to go and see my favourite band</div>
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At last the day of the concert arrived, and there I was just ten feet from the stage</div>
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With a few beers inside, having the time of my life singing along to every song.</div>
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Life was back on track. </div>
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The artist is Anne Bachelier, one of my biggest art heroines, this is the reason for being nervous.</div>
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"I am just an artist".</div>
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We have some fantastic paintings, drawings and mixed media that has arrived</div>
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First I worried about the frames I was making. Were the y good enough?</div>
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The advertising! Should it have been more simple?</div>
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This is amazing as she has just opened a major retrospective exhibition of her art at</div>
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There she has managed to fill an entire castle with her paintings.</div>
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Yet, she still makes the time to create a new exhibition for us.</div>
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I have told her "This is impossible, you are only one women".</div>
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But, she lives to paint.</div>
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Perhaps this is why in the past she has been asked to illustrate several famous books.</div>
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Although I think it would be easy to create a book from just one of her paintings.</div>
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Evidence of this is the painting below which is the one I chose for advertising.</div>
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This is the place to be in a weeks time.</div>
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Of course you can also ask me about Tears For Fears.</div>
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Just don't mention 'BREXIT'.</div>
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I have lost count of the number of different artworks and events that I have intended to write about.</div>
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Something new would happen and I would decide "I must write about this"</div>
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Then I would remember "But, I haven't written about that yet".</div>
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So another day will pass with the promise to myself that I must write about something,</div>
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Anything, even if it is about the weather.</div>
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Or just the prospect of the UK leaving Europe.</div>
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Now, that I could write about for hours, it wouldn't make me popular</div>
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But I would certainly have a lot to say.</div>
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"A train crash waiting to happen"?</div>
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Apart from the politics that we are all immersed in at the moment there have been many</div>
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things that have been of interest to me that I would have liked to have shared</div>
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But it all gets buried under the mountain of daily office work.</div>
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However, here at last is a little post. </div>
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I have recently thought that I should post about new art that would be arriving here soon.</div>
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Then decided "No wait until it is here, I might be tempting fate" especially as it takes a few months</div>
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But, now at last I can show some eagerly anticipated paintings because they are actually here</div>
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In the gallery and on display, they are by the artist</div>
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His name is so beautiful perhaps you don't need to see the paintings </div>
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No, on reflection I think you do.</div>
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They really are different, beautiful but different.</div>
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After they had been delivered by our English/French "Transporter" [that's what they call him].</div>
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I left it for about three hours before I unwrapped them.</div>
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I could only do it once and I really wanted to savour the moment.</div>
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It had been a long wait as they hadn't been created when I first approached the artist. </div>
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They were everything that I had hoped for and more.</div>
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I love it when paintings have a narrative, you can make up your own story to go with the painting.</div>
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With the paintings by Jean-Francois I could imagine many different stories.</div>
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It changes your thoughts and perspective about what you expected.</div>
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Sometimes the waiting is all worth while.</div>
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I have waited for months to show you these paintings, now I have.</div>
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Unfortunately, they will never be mine but I will enjoy every day that they are hanging on my walls.</div>
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There is an unusual artist who brings us paintings from time to time</div>
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Or did I mean an artist who brings us unusual paintings?</div>
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Actually it's both.</div>
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Will Teather is the artist.</div>
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Everything that he creates is very different and each piece has its own unique history with many stories attached.</div>
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They are set in worlds of his vivid imagination which he makes a reality.</div>
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In the past he has created so convincing a fictitious history around the subject in one painting that it became believed that the woman portrayed actually existed.</div>
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I suppose this was helped by the fact that he had preserved her clothing in museum style cases.</div>
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I had not intended to start talking about</div>
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"Maudeline Spacks", the vanishing artist.</div>
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As I don't have that many hours spare to devote to that creation.</div>
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Suffice to say this not existing person now has her own tribute band.</div>
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To describe him as a "larger than life" character would be very apt.</div>
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For one reason he is large and very tall, but more to the point he has a personality</div>
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In this instance it was in my gallery. </div>
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He was here drawing me into his own world. </div>
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The reason for his visit was because I had pestered him for one of his "new" works</div>
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A series that he has titled</div>
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These really have to be seen to be believed, neither I or anyone else has seen anything like them before.</div>
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These are scenes which are painted onto giant globes which are suspended from a ceiling.</div>
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The amazing thing is that whatever area you view is perfect yet when you look to the sides the perspective changes as the painting diminishes into the distance.</div>
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Turning the globe then brings those area's into perfect size yet what you had been looking at now becomes smaller and slightly distorted.</div>
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They are difficult to describe.</div>
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Above is a portion of one such painting.</div>
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The picture below of Will in his studio is not an attempt to show how they look as it just</div>
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Knowing that he works on a very large scale I had been "playing safe and had requested</div>
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A "half sphere" painting that I loved.</div>
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I understood that it attached to a wall like any "normal" painting so I knew</div>
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Wrong!</div>
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It is concave and measures 40 inches in diameter and protrudes 20 inches from the wall.</div>
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Why had I expected anything different from this gentle giant?</div>
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It is an amazing piece of art.</div>
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It is almost interactive, as when you hold your face close you have a sensation of being a</div>
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Birds are flying above, below and around you.</div>
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Along with this masterpiece he also left me with some of his "normal" art.</div>
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At last the exhibition of art by George Underwood is open to the public.</div>
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It has been much anticipated by us and many others, especially once the media had become involved.</div>
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For myself it now feels almost as if I am on holiday as the pressures have eased slightly</div>
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There are still some to be made and new works to display.</div>
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It has been difficult trying to juggle and prioritise the different things that need to be done on a daily basis, because unlike what people think running a gallery is not all romance and pleasure.</div>
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Of course there is a lot of pleasure but that is only because of the work done each day.</div>
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But, at last after all of the preparartion</div>
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George's art is on display and to prove it here is a picture of him outside the gallery</div>
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Posing [by request] beside the exhibition banner.</div>
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Not only did he produce an exhibition within a short time frame he has also been very busy</div>
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Or perhaps I should say in front of the scenes as he seems to have spent more time on television </div>
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and radio than doing anything else over the past week.</div>
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Well let's be honest, I was never going to say no.</div>
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So a few hours before the opening the film crew and George had the gallery for themselves</div>
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And as expected his relationship with David Bowie.</div>
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To say I found it all very interesting would be a slight understatement.</div>
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Of course there was lots that never made it through the editing process so I felt privileged to hear many stories</div>
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The filming continued for hours and even included an interview with myself.</div>
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Before the camera's left we had the arrival of George's old mate friend.</div>
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Steve Harley</div>
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The man who is the driving force behind Cockney Rebel.</div>
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At one time his song "Make Me Smile" was the most played record on the radio, it is one of those songs you can never forget and whenever I hear it I have to sing along.</div>
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He is a real fan of George Underwood's paintings and he spent a long time</div>
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What was really nice is that he didn't just talk with George, he had time for everyone who recognised and wanted to speak with him.</div>
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He was interesting, charming and polite.</div>
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I only managed to have a brief chat with him as I had about five different conversations </div>
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on the go at any one time, but it seems that Irene and Rebecca managed to have much longer chat with both him and his lovely wife.</div>
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Although in truth "Bec" rarly moved from the desk and without her we would have struggled.</div>
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She was able to entertain, hold conversations, pour wine and handle the sales without</div>
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I think it's called multi-tasking, women are good at that.</div>
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So above are pictures of them having a good time while I was busy elsewhere.</div>
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And there was a lot to be doing as the gallery was full of visitors all day </div>
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However, I did manage to get "snapped" having a cuddle with George as the evening approached.</div>
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I had been caught in the middle of my own multi-tasking</div>
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The person I most wanted to talk with was George the artist and star of the show</div>
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But as is the norm at any opening it doesn't often happen.</div>
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The artist's time belongs to the public on that day and he didn't have many moments to himself.</div>
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This was one, it was the "lull before the storm".</div>
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I wanted to show a little of the diverse artworks on show,</div>
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There are many and although very different they are equal with their haunting beauty.</div>
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However, there was one in particular that interested and fascinated everyone.</div>
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'The Man Who Fell to Earth'.</div>
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My own feet haven't touched earth since the opening,</div>
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Because of the camera's and the crowds of visitors it all seemed slightly unreal.</div>
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The morning after as I unlocked the doors I was surprised by the silence.</div>
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For a little while I was alone with my own private collection.</div>
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This didn't last for long, and today it is the same there are a constant stream of visitors who just don't seem to understand that I am trying to do something important.</div>
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We have never had an exhibition that has generated as much media attention as the forthcoming one.</div>
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The artist involved is George Underwood.</div>
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Always in the gallery there is a selection of his art on display, paintings and prints.</div>
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The prints are Limited Editions but we only show the 'Artist Proofs' which are more rare.</div>
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Over the period of a few years he has become one of our most collected artists.</div>
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For this reason only we have never held an exhibition of his work.</div>
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My feelings have been that the public would not notice the difference between</div>
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I have often been urged by people " you should hold a solo exhibition by George ".</div>
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Now we are.</div>
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The decision to do this came by chance and circumstance.</div>
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Just a few months ago a famous musician visited the gallery, he was fascinated by one large painting,</div>
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Of course the painting was by George Underwood.</div>
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On that day I was not at the gallery, my daughter was in charge of my little empire for the day.</div>
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In conversation with her the musician explained that he and George were very old friends</div>
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In fact his best selling album featured Mrs. Underwood on the Cover. </div>
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Of course I was greatly disappointed that I was not present that day as I had missed the opportunity to meet a hero. </div>
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However, I did have A vinyl copy the album featuring George's wife and as I was anticipating them both to visit the gallery sometime soon I took the record to the gallery with the intention of getting her to sign it when they visited.</div>
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Two days later a gentleman came into the gallery who was interested in only one painting.</div>
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I said "hello" to him then I did a "double take".</div>
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"Hey, it's you! </div>
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Don't you go anywhere before you sign this".</div>
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As you can tell I have a way with words and famous people.</div>
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He ignored my rudeness and we had a long conversation [plus he did sign the album cover].</div>
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He explained that he hadn't seen George and his wife for many years, but now he was</div>
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Two days later I had a call from George. </div>
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The musician had contacted George and had invited him and his wife to come to see him</div>
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Joking with George I said "we should have a solo exhibition of your art and get him to come and open it, and maybe sing a song".</div>
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We laughed about it, then on the spur of the moment I said </div>
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"Are you serious" he said?</div>
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As a result on April 3rd. That is just what we are doing.</div>
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We have both been looking forward to the event and George has been [and still is] busy</div>
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Things then became very serious. </div>
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George Underwood has a great many famous friends in the music industry,</div>
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One of these was his best friend, David Bowie.</div>
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People worldwide had been shocked to learn of the death of this iconic figure.</div>
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None more so than George.</div>
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This was his mate who had passed away, the boy that he had grown up with, the boy he had fought with over the attentions of a girl, the boy who he formed a group with.</div>
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The boy who became the man who then became 'Ziggy Stardust' and who he later toured America with.</div>
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The person he stayed friends with until the end. </div>
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In fact he would rarely speak about their relationship they were just mates.</div>
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With our coming exhibition this has presented the media with the ideal opportunity to interview</div>
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The first of these interview's will be published</div>
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This Sunday in one of the country's most important newspapers</div>
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THE OBSERVER</div>
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After that in the week building up to the opening there will be many other interviews.</div>
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Newspapers, magazines, radio, television and social media.</div>
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Sometimes it is nice to be taken by surprise.</div>
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Not always, but sometimes. This is about one of those occasions.</div>
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There is an international art magazine titled 'MIROIR'.</div>
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They have a reputation of showcasing some of the worlds best artwork. </div>
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I was told by a friend that I would really appreciate the latest issue as it featured somebody I know.</div>
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The magazine can be viewed online so of course that's what I did first before buying one.</div>
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It might not be as enjoyable but sometimes the immediacy of viewing online</div>
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I wasn't sure what I was expecting to find but I knew that it would be good.</div>
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It is always nice to read about people that you know.</div>
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On this occasion I was even more pleased and excited as the magazine had a very large article</div>
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For the very first time I learnt things about Anne that I had no knowledge of. </div>
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My only excuse for not having asked her the same questions as the magazine is, </div>
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I feel art is a very personal thing and sometimes it is best not to know too much.<br />
The magic might vanish. </div>
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I have thought that it is good to weave your own story around an artwork. </div>
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Now I understand that I am an idiot.</div>
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I learned so much from the article and it gave me a greater understanding of her inspirations.</div>
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As a result I love her paintings more.</div>
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I am only showing a fraction of the interview and the pages published,</div>
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I would urge everyone to purchase a copy or at least like me read the magazine online.</div>
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What made the feature really special for me was that on the last double page spread </div>
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they featured a painting that I see each day here in the gallery.</div>
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"Wow" that's our painting. </div>
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It was so strange to see something that I look at, touch and admire each day</div>
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now being shared with the world.</div>
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It is a wonderful painting, the longer you view it the more detail you find. </div>
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Like much of the art we show I will miss it when it sells</div>
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So while it is still "mine" I thought I would show how it looks in our setting.</div>
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It is a strange painting which seems to change.</div>
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Wherever I place it in the gallery the light seems to change the colouring.</div>
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I look at the image in the magazine and think "yes that is just what it looks like" then I think</div>
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"No, it is much softer, more gentle".</div>
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Moving it again into a different room it then becomes darker and more menacing</div>
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The story changes</div>
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Whatever,</div>
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It is a stunning painting and for a little time it is mine</div>
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That makes me feel proud.</div>
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