Sketchbook
Here are some of my sketches, from the early 1980s onwards. They give a some kind of picture of where I've been and how I felt about it. I can vouch anyway for the therapeutic effect of filling your mind with a subject, and attempting to produce an image of it.
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In 1982, at Charles's house, at Relugas Mill, in Morayshire, Scotland
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In Bridport, Dorset in 1986 with my mother
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Youth hostel on the Gower peninsular, 1987. Simon and Zoe, with Birdy's children, climbed out of the window to break the curfew
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Hickling Broad, Norfolk, on the way to Martin's
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Staying at Martin's house in Gorleston, in 1987, with Tio, Jack, Eileen, Helen and Richard
In Australia
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Taylor Street, Toowoomba 1988
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Beach house in Caloundra, Queensland, 1988
Beach at Caloundra
Wreck at Dicky beach, Queensland, 1988
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Dicky beach, Queensland, 1988
Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, 1988
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Annie and Pierangelo's, Sydney, 19 94
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At ByronBay, NSW, 1994
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Watching Australia vs England, Toowoomba, 1994
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Quince outside Queenslander window, Christmas 1995
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Cat by Margaret and Bob's pool, Victoria Park, Perth 1996
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Cylinder beach, Stradbroke, 1996
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Cottesloe Beach, Perth 1996
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From the carport, Goulnan Street, Brisbane 2002
Eileen's Orange tree, Chapeltown 2002
MALAWI, 1990
Central Blantyre
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Red Cross house, Blantyre
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On the shore of Lake Malawi
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Dusk on the Nyika Plateau
Ibiza
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Cala d'Hort , 1993
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Southwold
Southwold, a 1950s-style Suffolk resort was a favourite destination for a summer week with Tio and my mother (Gran) we enjoyed the food and drink courtesy of Adnams, and the adjoining former art-colony of Walberswick.
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Seagull cottage 1993. Gran is in the foreground.
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Walberswick 1994
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Near Walberswick 1994
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Happy Suffolk pig 1995
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Southwold 1996
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Rainy day, 1996
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Gran with Tio on South Green
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Visit to Crowley country
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Red Abbey, Cork 1993
Italy 1997
visiting Pierangelo's family
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Beverimo smallholding
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In Florence
On holiday
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Lamorna Cove Cornwall 1988
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Devon cottage 1995
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Cricket at Crewkerne Dorset 1998
The first of my holiday breaks with Kate and Philip: Prague 1991
Chanpigneulles, Nancy on a house swap. We had one less gerbil when we got back.
Le Touquet 2010
St Ives with Zoe
Camping at St Hilaire 2006
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Marina at Hayling Island, where I went with mother, 2006
Oxfordshire
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Birthday flower 2004
Farmoor with the sketching class 2008
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Iris 2011
Sketches since then
Autumn into winter
Catharsis
Portraits and Life drawings t
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Self 2009
Self 1990s
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Harriet 199?
Sleeping woman at Elm Park
Reclining figure
Figure showing tone
Figure in ohre and blue
Cherub near Augustus Ceasar's leg: Ashmolean 2011