Sarah Anderson I would like more people to read my friend, the writer Adrienne Kennedy‘s blog. Ā She and I met in New York (where she still lives) in 1969. She has taught writing at colleges all over the US and her voice deserves to be more widely heard. Adrienne has had a blog since 2011 and she … Read more
Sod’s law – but flattering nonetheless … I have been asked to submit 6 pictures to an exhibition in aid of the hospice at St John and St Elizabeth’s Hospital. The date? The week of November 11th – 19th – Ā the same week as my own exhibition at the Tabernacle. Ā Talk about London buses coming … Read more
This article was first published in The Observer on 4 May, 2008. Click here to read the article on the Guardian and Observer website > My first independent trip … Around America in a Greyhound bus when I was 23. I bought a 99-days-for-$99 pass and stayed for a year. After that I went round … Read more
Election Day – it’s been exciting being here during the run-up to the elections as we’ve seen lots of electioneering. In the morning we go to Alavardi where there is an extremely strict dress code – dark glasses are not allowed. A problem for me – as my regular glasses go dark in the sun … Read more
Spend morning in Tbilisi and then go to the roof of the hotel Sharden to sketch the roofs of Tbilisi. Leave late morning and drive towards eastern Georgia along an avenue of walnut trees which stretches all the way to the Caspian, having stopped for a wine-soaked lunch; wine is meant to have originated in … Read more
I’ve been reading Lermontov’s Hero of Our TimeĀ on my kindle – wonderful for travelling. After leaving Mestia we have a hair raising drive down the mountain in a mini-bus before getting into a more stately bus. On the way back to Tbilisi – a long drive – we stop at a church in a farmyard … Read more
Spend the day in Mestia – go to an old house and get a real feeling of how people would have lived. 48 people lived in this one room – with the cattle underneath. The wooden carving dates from the 18th and 19th centuries. Christianity came very late to this part of Georgia – and … Read more
Leave early in a 4-wheel drive for Ushguli. Fabulous autumn colours and splashes of lime green against dark coniferous hills. Our car is passed by endless supporters of the Georgian Dream party – led by Ivanishvili – the richest man in Georgia. They go on to win the election on October 1st. Delicious lunch, in … Read more
Gelati Monastery outside Kutaisi has a real feeling of completeness. There is a huge mosaic/frescoe of Our Lady. I sketch the Bell tower. Every day we have the most enormous lunches (today in Zugdidi) and dinners – always tomatoes and cucumbers and soup and mostly cheesy bread, meat and pates made with walnuts and beetroot. … Read more