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THE PRICELESS WATERCOLOURS FROM JAPAN

 

My dear friend Yoshie, who has just finished her MBA at Birmingham, sent me some more wonderful watercolour studies painted for me, by her dear mother in Japan. What a honor and here they are: summer versions of small sweet peppers,rape blossom, and hydrangeas.

 

Another discovery: her father is involved in a charity to save Japanese beech forests, involved in opening a photo gallery and writing to explain the important of these trees to our ecology. We take so much for granted living where I do, in England, where beech trees are part of the fabric of our world and so very common. Iwanami-san's photographs are featured here too - the picture on the left won an award.

 

Omedetou gozaimasu! (I hope this is correct)

 

 

What a talent family and a great example of all that is exciting about Japan culture and why there is a piece of my spirit forever in Japan.

 


 

A SHAMELESS PLUG FOR FABULOUS SMOKED FISH

 

Super-friend Mike Muller recently relaunched his smoked fish business. We survived a whole week feasting wonderful smoked salmon when we were sailing with Mike in Ireland a short while ago. Gorgeous tasting fare from the dramatic West Coast of Ireland

 

Fine quality salmon, sea-trout and mackerel - fished from the wild, clear waters of the Atlantic and smoked to a special recipe on the western tip of the famous Ring of Kerry and now available in London, in leading restaurants, cafes and delicatessens, and directly to the public at Borough Market.

 

Visit Mike on http://muirennsmokehouse.co.uk or call 07734 402 117

 

 

 


SEEING TO GREAT FRIENDS MOVING FORWARD

 

Bucks Open Studios is the largest visual arts event in my part of the world. In the last two weeks of June every year over 400 artists and makers, in over 150 different venues across Buckinghamshire, open their studios and run exhibitions and events.

 

I went to see my two favourite painters Patricia Lynch and Isabel Fallow

They both work from Commercial Square Studios, an exciting workplace set in a partially disused warehouse in an edgy urban environment.

 

Patricia has moved into doing some lovely ceramics - their scale and their glazes are inspiring! They reflect the beauty of her egg tempera work!

 

Isabel who I had not seen for some time has taken here big canvas excitement from Japan to Venice and onward into print making.

 

Go see them both and other talents all in the same building - until June 28th

 

Commercial Square Studios

2nd and 3rd Floors Block C

Leigh Street
High Wycombe

HP11 2RH  Phone  07929 772 528

 

Click these Super Links

 

Patricia http://patricialynchart.co.uk/abouttheartist.aspx

 

Isabel www.isabelfallow.co.uk