Earlier this month I gave to talk at the preview of an exhibition of work by six artists, and I was invited to be part of this mix. It is an exciting event, as is always the case when I step out of the studio to put my paintings on show and I talked about what goes on in the studio. This is where the shadow box comes ...
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Golden Eagle in hunting mode My name is Andy Ritchie and I live in Loxwood. As a hobby I am a woodcarver, specialising in wildlife subjects such as birds of prey, moths, butterflies, dragonflies and otters. I took up this pastime when I retired about ten years ago, and it all sort of happened by accident. After ...
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Last month I wrote about seeing beauty in unexpected places. This month I would like to share a painting that I recently bought. Firstly let me say it is a rare occurrence that I buy paintings. After all I have more than a houseful of my own, so I shall explain how and why . . . Walking down Guildford High Street ...
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Recently an old friend and lifelong art dealer visited my studio, René Gimpel of Gimpel Fils. It was a sociable visit as I know that his dealing activities are firmly located in abstraction, particularly of the English 1950’s artists and onwards into contemporary, conceptual and ‘cutting edge’ works. So I feel both ...
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Audiences received an excellent evening’s entertainment with the Ewhurst Players’ production of “Quartet” by Ronald Harwood in the penultimate week of May. Elderly opera singers pottering out their days in a retirement home might not seem to offer the most promising plot for a play but that was rapidly ...
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Sir Dirk Bogarde was born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde of a Scots mother and a Flemish father who was the art editor of The Times. The young Derek Bogaerde was brought up in Sussex by his sister Elizabeth and his nanny. Educated at Glen’s School in Glasgow and London University, then at ...
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We have been thanking entities and industrious farmers for bountiful harvests since pagan times. Harvest is the time to celebrate reaping what we have sown earlier in the year, be that crops or something else entirely. It’s time to reflect on what you will be gathering this season. What have you sown during your ...
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To continue this month’s theme, Free to choose, a three course menu of your own choosing. We live in a part of the world where we can go to the supermarket or local shop and buy what we want to eat or even have a take away meal. In some parts of the world they don’t have this luxury. Why not prepare this meal and ...
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William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) Heath Robinson’s main employment was in providing a unique brand of humour to magazines and advertising- supplemented by various commissions for fantasy illustrations. He drew inspiration from people he met and the places where he lived. In ...
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Many Cranleigh youngsters will remember school trips to the TS Gerald Daniel, affectionately known as the “GD”. The ship is a converted Minesweeper that lost its use some five years ago, before being replaced by the TS Resolute. A Tale of Two Ships is the story of both these ships. The book has been completed in time ...
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