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Nowhereisland, “Batty” Blackmore and Mercy Bump
To Ilfracombe in north Devon a couple of weeks ago to visit Nowhereisland, an island of Arctic rocks travelling up the south west coast. I’m citizen number 11 thousand and something btw. But first went to check out Ilfracombe’s … Continue reading
Posted in Sketchbooks, Travels
Tagged Alex Hartley, Ilfracombe, Ilfracombe Museum, Nowhereisland
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Duck Racing
Never completely successful at horse-racing, I decided to have a go with Ducks. As everyone knows, Lyme Regis became famous for its Duck Races after Conger Coddling (involving a frozen dead eel – don’t ask) was banned. Apparently Duck Racing, … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Festivals, Sketchbooks, Travels
Tagged Dorset, Lyme Regis, notebooks, seaside, travels
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Wellcome visit
Last month to the Wellcome Collection, nipped in again to the excellent Brains exhibition. Camden Council sent in their Health & Safety advisor after several visitors fainted when viewing films of ECT treatment and a brain operation – both of … Continue reading
Posted in Sketchbooks
Tagged brain exhibition, brains, drawings, exhibition, London, notebook, notebooks, sketchbooks, Wellcome Collection
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Family tree
Posted in Primrose Hill, Sketchbooks
Tagged documents, drawings, family tree, notebooks, sketchbooks
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Notebook page
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Tagged drawings, notebooks, Primrose Hill, Sally Kindberg, things we never talked about
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China trip part four
The Bookworm Festival included a visit to a school run by the Migrant Children’s Foundation for children whose parents have been drawn from the countryside to work in China’s cities. A car picked us up from the Opposite House and drove … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals, Sketchbooks, Travels
Tagged bicycle, blackboard, cheese sandwich, China, comic strip, corgis, crown, drawings, fog, Forbidden City, glasses, interpreter, Migrant Childrens Foundation, Ring Road, Sally Kindberg, school, smile, story, the Bookworm, the Queen, umbrella
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China trip part three
Five hours travelling north from Suzhou to Beijing was a 302 km/h elevated and foggy whizz through countryside rapidly being converted into blocks of flats, roads cut into raw earth and forest of pylons. Luckily all the seats face forward as I … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals, Sketchbooks, Travels
Tagged Beijing, Bookworm Festival, bullet train, China, dinosaurs, hotel, Kengo Kuma, park, playground, Post-It, Sally Kindberg, schools, snow, talks, the Opposite House, travels, weather, workshops
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Giant furry things try to get into University lift
To pv of excellent Animal Gaze exhibition at Cass, part of London Metropolitan University. As human visitors looked at the exhibits, giant furry creatures gazed at them. Several scurried off into the lift. I believe Edwina Ashton was involved. Wonderful. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice B Toklas, Animal Gaze, animals, Basket, dog, drawing, Edwina Ashton, exhibition, Gertrude Stein, lift, London Metropolitan University, notebooks, sketchbooks
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Notebookland
Notebooks – I love them! Started with a tiny one when I was the size of a matchbox (my mum took me to a size specialist) and never looked back. Sold one of the first, full of pasted-in cut-outs and … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, Cyclops, dinosaur, drawings, Globe Wernicke, Mozart, notebooks, Nottingham, Sally Kindberg, sketchbooks, Tesla
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