Hey Hey We were the Monkees and I was a Believer
I became her foot soldier. She taught me the facts of life on the way to school. She got it a bit wrong but we muddled through and I let her take the credit.
Suffer little children for art
As a child I was approached at a Puffin Book Club event with friends, and we were groomed long distance, by the children’s author William Mayne…
Visiting Artists: in the pub
In the corner the artist whittling his sharp pencil, scribbling your portrait, selling his wares in order to catch a sentence or a shadow for a sketch
Visiting Artists: The Potter's Wheel of Fortune
….being given something lovely, even if it was a second.
Visiting Artists or read all about it
Off he wanders again, sharpening his own point no doubt…
Visiting Artists Come in Many Guises
The child already acts as the telephonist; diverting calls; small master of the procrastinating deadline; the mysterious unavailability of the artist to talk today; he is talking bills, school fees, Welsh gossip, Senior Service supplies, off licence invoices; he’s not at home for talking artists today; call again please…….
Visiting Artists in a Mini
One summer in the early sixties, three children travelled approximately 1,400 miles in the back of a mini to visit an artist…
Visiting Artists - Supplies
The younger artist knew the king of art mediums is oil. With linseed oil, turps, scratchy brushes and canvas, this was the alchemy needed to create a "work of art"….
Visiting Artists
Yet something always rubbed off, a feeling that being an artist was a bit mysterious and being children of artists a bit of a mystery…..