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Having recently been in conversation with Hisham Matar at Hatchards, I then wrote this piece for the Biographers’ Club website earlier this week: The Return is the account of Matar’s return to Libya in 2012 in search of his father who had been abducted from Egypt in 1990 by Qaddafi’s henchmen and sent to the…
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I’m just back from two weeks painting in Provence – a mixture of good conversation, delicious food and HARD  work! Every day we would be driven to a local site where we would spend the morning – over the two weeks we visited Murs, Joucas, Goult, Saturnin les Apt, Saignon, Viens and Simone la Rotunde,…
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I have had a painting selected by the Chelsea Art Society for an exhibition in Chelsea Town Hall. It is open from tomorrow Thursday June 13th – Saturday 15th (10am – 7pm), Sunday June 16th (10am-5pm) Monday June 17th (10am – 2pm). It is number 355!

After spending 6 nights in our mobile camp which had been run by Johnny & Tasha Ramsden of Royale Wilderness, we went back to Maun. Bill Burns (BotswanaTrek.com) had organised 2 nights for us at the famous Jack’s Camp. We left our heavy luggage in Maun and took a small plane there. We arrived to…
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Just back from my trip to the Okavango Delta in Botswana, organised by Bill Burns (http://www.botswanatrek.com)  and guided on the ground by Johnny Ramsden who runs a mobile-safari company with his wife Tasha. We were incredibly lucky to see so many animals close to – it almost seemed staged since each day we saw something different….
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Back from Aldeburgh where the exhibition went fairly well. It was busiest during the weekend since both the poetry festival and the documentary film festival were happening – except people did seem to be rushing from one event to another. The opening on Saturday was well attended – but only half a bottle of wine…
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Sitting here hoping that I’ve remembered everything to take to Aldeburgh. My hallway is full of paintings, cards, calendars, materials for hanging etc etc. My car will be laden … So much to think about … This time next week will be the last day of the exhibition – Aldeburgh Arts Gallery, 143 High Street, Aldeburgh IP15…
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Doing more paintings for the exhibition – that is one of the good things about having an exhibition – the deadline … Next week I’m going up to Scotland to do a course at the North-West Highland Art Centre with David Tress – not brilliant timing being so close to Aldeburgh – but something I…
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There’s so much to think about when getting an exhibition together – that is on top of doing the paintings which are of course the priority! Its also important to let as many people as possible know about it – especially since Aldeburgh is not my home territory. Most are now mounted – but I…
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I am starting to upload the paintings that will be in the exhibition in Aldeburgh. I have started with the paintings that will be in the 2019 calendar – animals and birds from the Galapagos. (for some reason it says there are 13 paintings in this album. Not sure where the extra month came from!)…
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