Simply..remembering....

2/8/2018

..that I had bought this little Christine McArthur painting!

She's one of my favourite artists.

I'm also remembering as I trawl through the contents of the studio classes I took, classes I taught. Galleries I have known, people I have met. Open Days and Private Views. Deadlines and late nights and just what hard work it was at times!

But oh the fun. Not to mention the privilege of working at something I love so much.

I am gathering in one place photographs and mementoes and this is becoming if not a 'tidying festival' as Marie Kondo calls it, at least a bit of a celebration of my career so far..

And the music is getting louder - today Joan Sutherland in La Traviata at full volume.

Wow.

7 Comments

Linda

3/8/2018 03:14:30 am

Another lovely painting, but it's never just the painting itself, is it. It's the memory of when and where it was bought, the person you were with, the discussion of where best to put it. Things bought with love never lose that connection. Those are all the lovely feelings you're unearthing.

Freda

3/8/2018 11:38:21 pm

Such a lot of memories surfacing and so many of Barry, so it's painful too - maybe this is the real work. I miss him so badly.

Lotta link

3/8/2018 11:18:14 am

What a gift to have your own retrospective... if you had been too minimalist you might have missed out on some of those memories. Now I'm wondering where you can go from full volume music... singing tomorrow too? :-)

Freda

3/8/2018 11:40:09 pm

It's a gift to myself I guess - this space and time to reflect. I may have to dance (as well as cry)!

Julia

4/8/2018 10:32:13 am

I am reading your post and the comments so far, Freda...and am reminded of a friend of mine, who has been facing her own set of tragedies, chronic terrible pain, a joint replacement gone wrong and a sister who is dying...she gripped my shoulders and looked hard into my face and she said intensely: No one told us it would be this hard!! Truly, this IS a very challenging time of life, isn’t it? Wonderful memories, painful memories, and also that sense of not being able to get things back to “normal”....there is no normal...just redefining what normal is now...maybe not even now...just today.

Freda

4/8/2018 12:59:17 pm

Oh I do feel for your friend Julia. Some people seem to get more than their share of difficulties. A friend of mine announced 'I have everything I want except my husband' and I agree with her now. But know I am one of the lucky ones....and have to adjust to the 'new normal'.

Julia

5/8/2018 01:38:56 pm

Well, when you have pain, you have pain...and it’s terrible for you! So we should never feel that we have had enough happiness to not feel desperately sad or in pain now...it’s just downright hard sometimes! No matter how lucky or happy we have been...life is just hard at times..and when we least expect it. And we have the right to be sad about that!

Simply..remembering....

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