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From Elizabeth to Elvis

30/5/2014

 
Avalon Art Gallery is having this exhibition which opens on June 26th and my linocuts of Elizabeth 1st and the other women will be on exhibited alongside Libby Hackett's screen prints of Elvis and Audrey Hepburn. 

May 13th, 2014

13/5/2014

 
This weekend is the Open Studio Weekend as part of the Pittwater Artists Trail. 
I am open Saturday and Sunday May 17th and 18th from 10 am to 4pm, so please come and see me in my studio at 103 Central Road, Avalon.

Surfboard

5/5/2014

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A friend wanted one of my paintings on her surfboard - I did the painting and Ben Keelty put it on the board. I love it - it is so different to all the other boards I see at the beach. Next time I will put an image on the back as well, as this image is now covered in surfboard wax. 
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    I am Reading….

    Salonika Burning bi Gail Jones. 
    This is a wonderful book, She writes beautifully and her work reminds me of Shirley Hazzard. 

    Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart. 
    I so enjoyed this book, it was funny. And the characters so exposed. July 2022 

    Our Shadows by Gail Jones.
    This is such a good book. I had just read The Death of Noah Glass by her and both of these are so well written.
    June 22

    Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
    I loved this book and it felt so modern even though it is 60 years old. Apart from the lack of technology in it, no mobiles, no emails and no computers. 
    March 22
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    Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
    This has taken me some time and I have another 150 pages to go. It has been a challenging read and I find some of it extremely funny. I will let you know when I have finished it. Read more Austen and Mitford as light relief during this period. As well as other less memorable books.  21.02.21



    The Dutch House by Anne Patchett
    Such a wonderful book, I loved reading this, a perfect joy. 

    Olive again by Elizabeth Strout. 
    Just saying - a fabulous snall book. Olive is such a plausible, flawed character. 

    Milkman by Anna Burns
    I have so loved reading this book. You enter another world where the dial has been moved and you have to tune in and recalibrate to this fine tone. It is wonderful.

    The Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
    This book is brilliant. I had never heard of him, and thank you to Avalon Library for having him on the shelf. I started with The Spectator Bird, then Crossing to Safety  and now this book. I think I have read them in the right order for me. He is no slouch, having won lots of prizes including the Pulitzer. His writing is exquisite.

    Nutshell by  Ian McEwan
    This book is brilliant.

    The Fish Can Sing by Halldor Laxness
    I had never heard of Halldor Laxness before, but I loved this book, and found it extremely funny. And he did win the Nobel Prize for Literature, so obviously no slouch. 

    Rereading
    The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford - hilarious and some of it so clever and finely drawn.

    Persuasion by Jane Austen. Again
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    The Transit of Venus. I reread this book almost every year.

    I am not reading
    My Brilliant Friend. Have I missed something here? 

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