Discoverimg the Past, or from 43 Years ago two Portraits.....

The other day I got a message: “Look what we found in the local fish & chip restaurant.

“George” is a coloured pencil, pen & ink portrait, dated 1982.

I had zero recollection of “George” and no record.

But, the restaurant is fairly close at hand so a visit was in order. There was “George 1982” and companion “Angus & Lucy 1982”.

The former owner on retirement and selling up, had given the two works to the new owner. The new owner is delighted to discover she owns two original works by a well known artist. I’m delighted to rediscover the two works They were completed when I was very pregnant working on a 6’5” x 7’ drafting board space in our tiny unfinished house. The restaurant was in different place. It too less fancy.

"A Portrait by Any Other Name" at the Toronto Heliconian Club

It’s the Heliconian Club's first “arts and letters” show, written and picture portraits.

Portraits can be other and more than just people. Here are three of mine, a fourth is Turpentine the Studio Cat for many years.

They were on view along with many others, in “A Portrait by Any Other Name...” at the Toronto Heliconian Club.

A Wonderful Person

Julie Tattersall and I first met at Ambercroft Farms in the 1960s. We connected through our mutual arts loves. Julie went on to a the professional horse career. Her career carried her all over. Julie was a legend in the Ontario horse show world. Always producing top quality competitors. Along her three daughters, Jane, Jennifer & Jacquie later Grandaughter Lola and many dogs, she part of the Canadian horse show world for over 50 years. We adventured together. I learned to drive a pick-up truck driving to the Kentucky Horse Park. Discovered you can hide a golf cart and forget it in the back of a trailer far from home. Had a wild Taxi ride to LaGuardia after see Leonard Cohen at Madison Square. Saw Canada Geese blacken the wet fields around Ottawa in spring breakup, and so on.

Julie passed in mid October 2021.