Sarah Anderson K’TUT TANTRI ‘Romance’ was the key to K’tut Tanti’s extraordinary character and life. She jealously protected her history by deliberately obscuring her past, by endlessly changing her aliases and by constantly reinventing herself. From what can be pieced together it seems that Muriel Stuart Walker was born in Glasgow on February 18th 1898; her mother was … Read more
DUNCAN PRYDE Duncan Pryde, who probably knew the Arctic ‘better than any white man of his generation’, was in the middle of the massive task of compiling a dictionary of the 26 dialects of the Inuit (or Eskimo) language when he died from cancer. Pryde, who had four brothers and one sister, had been brought … Read more
ELLA MAILLART ‘To dawdle is my usual fashion, as if I had the whole of eternity before me.’ This sums up Ella Maillart’s approach to travel; she liked travelling slowly, absorbing the culture and she understood the importance of finding the similarities rather than the differences between people. It was this inquisitiveness about other people … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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!) … Read more
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 … Read more
Mary Lutyens, who became the acknowledged world expert and writer on Krishnamurti, was only two years old when her mother, Lady Emily Lutyens, became a theosophist. In 1911 Krishnamurti and his brother Nitya were brought to England by Mrs Besant and as Lady Emily took the two boys ‘under her wing’, the young Mary grew … Read more
Joe Links was a modest man who was extremely wise, versatile and able; he was always polite and worked hard all his life not to make an enemy. ‘I have had a very private life and I hope to go on being private for what’s left of it,’ he said in 1989. He was born … Read more
EMILY HAHN ‘I have deliberately chosen the uncertain path whenever I had the choice…A more important freedom was that which made it possible to travel ‘ wrote Emily Hahn in 
 China to Me
 (1944). In 1930 after making some money from her first book Seductio ad Absurdum: The Principles and Practices of Seduction
 (1930) Hahn … Read more