Monday, 8 April 2019

Annie Walke triptych at Truro Cathedral

Has no idea this lovely triptych by Annie Walke was in Truro Cathedral. Often think of her husband Bernard Walke (ill-fated vicar of St Hilary) and his fabulous autobiography. Annie Walke has some works at St Hilary but not as splendid as this.


Monday, 1 April 2019

Sketchbooks

Have to say - Turner's sketchbooks at Tate Britain are sensational. Imagine creating something like this in a notebook...




The west front of Winchester Cathedral in 1795....
And chez moi stunning flowers from friends from America who visited yesterday....


Reading and watching

  • Foot by Foot to Santiago de Compostela/Judy Foot
  • The Testament of Mary with Fiona Shaw at the Barbican
  • The Testament of Mary/Colm Toibin
  • Schwanengesang/Schubert - Tony Spence
  • Journals/Robert Falcon Scott
  • Fugitive Pieces/Ann Michaels
  • Unless/Carol Shields
  • Faust/Royal Opera House
  • The Art of Travel/Alain de Botton
  • Mad Men Series 6
  • A Week at The Airport/Alain de Botton
  • The Railway Man/Eric Lomax
  • Bright Lights, Big City/Jay McInerney
  • Stones of Venice/John Ruskin
  • The Sea, the Sea/Iris Murdoch
  • Childe Harold/Lord Byron
  • All The Pretty Horses/Cormac McCarthy
  • Extreme Rambling/Mark Thomas
  • Story of my Life/Jay McInerney
  • Venice Observed/Mary McCarthy