cats

This is Indeg, the cat who owns my daughter and family..named after one of their friends.

I've just been reading a thread on the Downsizer forum...a conversation between New Jersey, Sussex,Tasmania,Huntingdon and Mid-Wales, mainly,with occasional additions from Yorkshire and Scotland....

One subject was in passing,the naming of cats...

sweating blood..tearing out hair...

Writing about myself for a gallery I hope will consider my work.

Brain blank and freeze...procrastination....I've got thus far....

"I am an artist,mainly in clay, and ink on paper.   I have been doing this for over fifty years.   At present I am concentrating on lino-printing, having not had a clay studio since 2012 when I moved to Scotland from Wales. I hope to return to clay again soon "

Its a beginning.  Should I mention Art college?

The dreaded "artist's statement" will take a little longer, but must be faced!

I must try and list the exhibitions and galleries I've been in and the associations and cooperatives worked with.....

disaster

Four years after the library there (and much final show work) went up in flames, fire has returned to the Glasgow School of Art, just a year before it was to re-open.

It sounds worse this time, with water being pumped from the river Clyde to get enough pressure, and spreading to the old ABC cinema next door.

You feel unbelievably sad, for the artists and students' work there, for the builders and craftsmens' work in re-building and restoration.

As far as is known, no person has been hurt, which is a blessing...but...

now to wait...

 watching ink dry....

 Pirate got painting...refreshing our garden seat..

Luckily that dried before the rain returned!

getting on with it...

While Storm Hector barrels around the house, blowing a hooley and giving us much needed rain....

 I got busy...

testing again..

and realized that I'd missed one out..after cleaning the tools....

I think thinner paper is needed for finer lines..some of the detail between the tree branches has missed.

sunset

over Arran

We had a short ride last night,thinking to get one in before the rain....still no rain here...