Sunday, 23 August 2009

Where have they been put?Who has them?


This painting of Prime Brass musicians was bought from an auction by Jasper,


When he sings or plays the piano, there it is.






Where sheep may safely graze is above Alice and

Ian's stairs.

These sheep were under a tree near Linton one

hot summer.
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Saturday, 22 August 2009

andy,lisa, and oskar



This a sculpture of my first

neighbours in Cottenham, glazed

stoneware,

I have now made it in bronze, too
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Monday, 17 August 2009

Gormley exhibition with Martin and Terri


Martin and Terri exploring the Gormley exhibition
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Bregenz with Martin and Terri

Aida...no words enough for the spectacle..but it was also fun and Aida had a great voice..

A walk to Lindau and a Schostakovich fifties socially critical and brilliantly costumed, choreographed and sung by Opera North, what a bonus!

An Anthony Gormley exhibition , a walk on the hill tops and sitting on the giant bean bags..just looking.

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Thursday, 13 August 2009

Quartet and Listener

Drawing at a good concert is an enormous pleasure for me.
These figures are the fruits of many Britten Sinfonia and Endellion Quartet Concerts.When I made the figures in wax in February at Caroline and Adam Raphael's home at Prawle Point,I was grateful for the Aga which kept my fingers warm .
The Listener I drew at a concert in St John's College Chapel.
I have sold the listener and single violinists twice and the whole quartet once. I have always made them black.

Price
from € 250 each
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Violinist:portrait of Paul Robertson


I had drawn Paul at a music conference in Cambridge and asked him to sit for me.I spent a wonderful day drawing and taking photographs while he played Bach and Ysaye..my idea of heaven.
Ian Fletcher made the armature for me and worked out what size to make the paper violin..
I worked in clay and paper ,the cast was mounted with a steel rod and a stone base.I drove it to his inaugural lecture as professor of medicine in Truro,where it sat in front of him.
Paul has the only copy at his home.
(his website, www.musicmindspirit.org)
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Holy Family

This ordinary but very special family work in Herbich's foundry.They were sitting like this in the cantine and I said Keep still! fetched paper and drew them.
I thought about it, made a small ceramic group (which Clemens and Julia have) and then after a year, with Derk Bodack's help made a polystyrene and wax group which was cast in bronze in Gernlinden.
It too, had a number of adventures including losing all the heads..but Franz Herbich and Astrid drove it to Ely with me and with help we installed it in the Lady Chapel before the 7am service.It was there over Christmas and looked wonderful.It too, spent a year in Alastair Hull's Haddenham gallery sculpture garden and is now in front of my front door.


Price from €15000
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