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Busy, busy, busy - doing everything but work

Today I drove to Belfast to deliver some work for the Cavehill Gallery’s Christmas, there’s THAT word again! (Sorry!), Show. I had checked the weather forecast last night as I didn’t fancy driving in wind and rain. The forecast predicted a “20% chance of precipitation”. Well the “20%” must have attached itself to my car for the day!

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Tomorrow I am hanging the “Works on Paper” show at the United Arts Club. This opens on Thursday at 8pm….I will never get down to my own work at this rate!

Welcome to my world...

I think I have exhausted the rich mine of Italian emails for my blog, so now I am going to subject you to (my form of) reality from the last week….

On Monday my paper order from Armatruda in Amalfi arrived. It was a bit like Christmas, (oops, I shouldn’t have mentioned that word!), as I ripped off the packaging to find the delicious looking paper. Unfortunately, now I am like a rabbit in the headlights and afraid to even think of working on it.

Wonder Bra?

I was watching, purely by accident, the rugby last night. What on earth were the Irish team wearing??? Their jerseys seem to have a sort of cling film bra welded on to it.
But it didn’t take away from their great playing…. Ireland XV 53 − 0 Fiji

Car disaster

This is one of many of my (mis)adventures while in Italy! The make of the car and the rental company have been removed….

Mother of Jesus what a day!

I am writing this down as it almost feels like I lived through a nightmare today!

Leonard and the gamey eye

I meant to say, when I was in Siena last Wednesday, I saw an amazing name on a death notice poster...Diva Tempestino! I was going to take a photo with my phone, but there were too many people around, and they may have thought it was disrespectful, which it was! I hope she lived up to her name! I have a vivid picture of her in my head, a real piece of work!

I'm getting a bit bogged down with new drawing... seemed to have picked another tricky one....need some snowy, minimal subjects! It looked simpler than the last one when I picked it.