Sports day

Its that time of year again Sports day. I went to Leya's this morning which was short but very sweet, if not a little chaotic, but she was happy. Kitty had hers last week and won the year7 800 meters so I was a very proud mum. Daisy has never been a huge fan of these events but she has been coaxed into doing the discus on Monday which is her birthday!

Happy Birthday Mum

This was mums card which like Henry Moore was not painted for the occasion but found and gratefully applied to the occasion. It actually arrived early a unique occurrence for me. We are meeting for lunch at our new favourite restaurant Arbutus after I have shown her around the RA Summer Exhibition, which all sounds very civilized until you throw "The Leyla monster" into the equation.

John Copnall

JOHN COPNALL

Died June 9th but has only just had his Obituary published in the Guardian. I love the structure of his early paintings as well the more colourful recent work.This statement is true to me as well as his work


"Today Copnall finds inspiration from a rather different skyscape outside his studio in Bow, East London, home for the last seventeen years. The varying circles, spirals, verticals and horizontal structures of the city skyline all converge to discover new space in his paintings"

Let go...

Let go..., originally uploaded by (restless::things).

Very calming, not unlike Lenore Tawney's collages

Journal Entry Collage

Journal Entry Collage, originally uploaded by Yaronimus Maximus.

Lovely use of text with collage,
I must start some work soon but the job that pays keeps getting me first...

Daisy the Librarian

Daisy is on work experience this week at the local library. I had hoped she would be a hedge fund manager and get some work experience in the city but apparently Daisy has held a secret lifelong ambition to be a librarian.. Second only to being a pathologist but their wasn’t much in the way of work experience in the local pathology lab. Daisy was told by the library to wear her school trousers with a plain top…well school trousers circa July are just not fit for the public to see and teenagers do not have plain T shirts sans logos, names of favourite bands cartoon hero’s etc.so we cobbled together 3 bookish outfits via Next (it does have some uses) It is now my mission to go and rearrange all the books to give her some work to do although she reckons she’s rushed off her feet. The final shock to Daisy’s finely tuned system is the 5pm finish positively night time on planet Daisy.

Valentino

Today Valentino delivered a collection as clean and refreshing as a sorbet after a particularly rich dinner. Valentino has never really registered on my radar but this collection has been brushed with elements of Givenchy at its best, very beautiful.