CARAVANS

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I caught sight of this picture in my 1999 issue of The National Geographic magazine featuring  photographs by the famous George Steinmetz*.  This scene of the Saharan Niger evoked in me the intense ...

PORTRAIT IN PRIMARY COLOURS

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Chris posed for our life-class one summer’s day, looking grave and dignified, as befits a retired police officer.  So, we did our utmost to make him smile - his expression sits somewhere betwixt th...

A FEW WEEKS OLD

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Baby Lana was born during the period of the covid crisis in the UK – so her grandmother could not visit her. This is picture captures a moment during that time which her grandmother could not share....

Just Married, Michael

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My husband in an unguarded moment, dancing with me just after our wedding in India. Prepared from a ye olde photograph!

MOLLY & WILL

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Will and Molly were an inseparable pair,  in this picture they were sitting side by side on the staircase. You will see that Molly was aging and Will was not yet a teenager. Will’s Grandmother, wan...

ELLIE

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Ellie, a Siberian Husky, was rescued by an artist and remains his happy companion.  Ellie was the subject of an art class on animal portrait. She was captured from a photograph on display. 

God’s Last Burlesque

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God’s Last Burlesque was inspired by my ex-father-in-law; ‘Ted’ or, to me, ‘Sir’; a man who I know for sure did actually shift some of the national boundaries on the maps of the Middle East ...

I’ll never forget ….. whot’sisname?

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I’ll never forget ….. whot’sisname? (…. or what did either Narcissus or Dostoyevsky ever do for me??!) along with God’s Last Burlesque, represents my attempts to put life in focus (my own li...

This Blessed Plot, This Earth, This Realm, This England?

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The story in This Blessed Plot, This Earth, This Realm, This England? began to take shape when I was sitting in the graveyard surrounding our 1000-year-old church, looking at the River Nene and thinki...