Acrylic, 24 x 16ins. From a photo I took myself during a walk around Falmouth’s Pendennis Headland in the summer. I initially regarded it as too difficult when Patricia Brenchley said “go on, paint it.” Then I had second thoughts and decided to “give it a go,” as an artist whose name I forget used to say on a TV series long ago. So thank you, Trish, and credit as always to my teacher, Jeanni Grant-Nelson
Delighted to confirm that Mark “Rappo” Rapsey’s autobiography book launch last Saturday - the culmination of 18 months’ working together and featured here several times - was a big success. Together with other incoming orders, we have now made a first-stage donation of £1,350 to Cancer Research UK. The project is entirely in aid of the charity and a reprint has been ordered.
For various reasons, I have decided to scale back my blog activity, with less frequent but often longer posts . . . to be that little bit more blog-ish, you might say. That’s the plan, anyway. We’ll see how it pans out.
With a beautiful little grandson now on the scene, and a wish to spend more time on my art, which I have neglected of late, I am frankly feeling the “pressure” a bit – when now, of all periods in my life, my family tell me I should be relaxing that much more in my retirement!
The blog difference may not be too noticeable for a little while, as I have a number of stockpiled items awaiting publication.
In the meantime, a big thank-you to each and every one of you who have offered so much support and encouragement over these last eight years of blogging.
It’s been a particular pleasure to hear from readers who are either scattered all over the world and/or have personally related to my nostalgic trips Down Memory Lane, in Cornwall and especially my home territory of Falmouth-Penryn.
But NB: I am not stopping, just changing!
And I will continue to flag up my posts on social media in the usual way as and when they are published.
