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News: Lift Out
It has been a while since I posted anything on this blog. It wasn’t my intention to stop for so long, but time has passed incredible quickly. In September we lifted our home Blue Linnet out of the water for several weeks of much needed maintenance. Planks were replaced, and parts of the strake [...]Drawing America’s Invisible Poor, Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco
I found this interesting interview with the journalist Chris Hedges about his recent collaboration with the artist/ journalist Joe Sacco, in their book ‘Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt’. In it the pair make visible the unseen people and ignored corners of America. Drawn reportage is often overlooked, and reportage in the form of a [...]An Unofficial War Artist
Ronald Searle was never acknowledged as an official war artist, despite risking his life to produce a exceptional body of work recording his experience as a Japanese prisoner of war in Singapore and Thailand. Some of these drawings will be exhibited alongside his better known cartoons, in a tribute exhibition, Ronald Searle Remembered (1920-2011) at [...]100 hands, 100 feet
For 6 weeks I have not drawn which has been a welcome break, but I am increasingly aware of how rusty my drawings skills are becoming. If I start to practice now then my eye hand coordination ought to be back relatively quickly, but leave it much longer and it will become a gargantuan task. [...]From the Loft Floor to the Launch Party
Freja was launched on Saturday 7th April, there was a great party which filled the boatyard with well wishers despite the april showers. Freja is now being put through her paces by her new owners Marion and Anders Johnson, and will based around Falmouth for the summer of 2012. They intend to head further north [...]
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