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London

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Sunday 14. 11. 10 Got back from London yesterday afternoon. Great week. Met up with Carole, Julia and Daisy. Saw Polly and Monica. Spent a day with Lawrence and Diane sampling L’s various French wines. Saw the Gauguin show at the Tate (crowded) and a wonderful small show of Cezanne’s card players at the Courtauld. Discovered the Saatchi gallery on the King’s Road and went to the new Mike Leigh film Another Year. Heard a choral service at St Paul’s and visited several of Susan Philipsz sound sculptures in the City. A pretty busy week!

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Portrait

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Thursday 04. 11. 10 Back to the portrait again today. It is coming along well. I want to get most of the background done before I go to London so that it has a chance to dry whilst I am away.

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Between projects

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Tuesday 02. 11. 10 Every so often one needs to take a break between projects and just paint for the fun of it. This is a little painting I did on Sunday from my kitchen table looking up into the living room.

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Vancouver

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Sunday 24. 10. 10 Finally finished all the drawings for this series. I’m now going to leave them for a while and then come back to them later in the week with fresh eyes.

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Alberta

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Thursday 21. 10. 10 It has been a busy week so far. I have started painting the portrait of Daisy and have been continuing with the train drawings. Have now completed 15 of the proposed 20 drawings for this series.

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The Drawing Room

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Saturday 16. 10. 10 George invited me to go with him and Laurene to this show this afternoon. It was in the old church at the Carré Ste Anne in Montpellier. A very inspiring show of drawings from contemporary galleries in Montpellier, art schools in Montpellier and Nimes and works from the collection of Piet Moget. The theme was contemporary landscape and there were drawings in a myriad of styles from abstract, through naive to architectural, from the famous to the unknown. And the audience was as varied, from young parents with small children in strollers to seniors. Afterwards we had a coffee and watched the strikers marching through the city.

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Last of the Prairies

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Tuesday 12. 10. 10 Finished up another two drawings and have now finished the prairie section of the journey. Also did the base drawing for a large portrait of Daisy.

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At last the prairies

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Monday 11. 10. 10 Have had a good day today and managed to do three more drawings and have finally got out of northern Ontario and on to the prairies. I am now at the half way point in the series so have 10 more drawings to go before I get to Vancouver.

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More Drawings Cross Canada 2

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Thursday 07. 10. 10 I have been working on more drawings from my cross Canada trip. I had originally thought that I would colour them but now have decided to keep them as B&W drawings and then use them as the basis for a series of monoprints, perhaps coloured. The two drawings above are both Northern Ontario.

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Cross Canada 1

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Sunday 03. 10. 10 For the last week I have been working on a new series of drawings on mylar based on my trip out west by train.  I have begun four drawings  and am still exploring techniques. The drawing above is of Northern Ontario. More to come…