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I recently did a talk with Raghu Markus in California .. Raghu Markus – Mindrolling – Ep. 532 – The Lost Art of Silence with Sarah Anderson

This is the Youtube recording I gave at Watkins Books about my new book – The Lost Art of Silence …

A thrilling review from Publisher’s Weekly in the US. ‘This elegant and ethereal meditation from Anderson (Heaven’s Face, Thinly Veiled), founder of the Travel Bookshop in London, explores silence as more than “just the absence of sound.” Drawing on movies, books, history, religious texts, and her own travels (to silent retreats and bustling cities), Anderson…
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Ages since I’ve posted … my exhibition back in November went very well … I went to New York soon after it finished, and was lucky to be there during that small window that opened before Omicrom hit! I managed to go to lots of exhibitions including the temporarily housed Frick Madison in what was…
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I am having an exhibition at the Tabernacle in Notting Hill from November 2nd-6th – it includes some of the many paintings and collages I did during lockdown. Painting (and living opposite Battersea Park) were two of the things that have kept me sane during the last 18 months.

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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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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Less than 2 months until my exhibition in Aldeburgh … apart from the paintings (kind of crucial) there are all the other admin things to do … fliers, price lists, calendars, mounting and/or framing, postcards and of course alerting people! This blog is a good place to keep track of what I have done and…
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I am going to have an exhibition of my paintings in Aldeburgh in Suffolk at the beginning of November during the poetry festival which is over the weekend of November 2nd. This is exciting but also rather daunting – I need to produce around forty framed pictures which I will need to sell as I…
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