Last week Thursday really should have been spent in NYC, sipping warm wine at a MoMA opening, trying not to look too awfully thrilled to bits at the fact that my bloke currently has one of his works gracing the walls of said illustrious institution. Paul’s large format linocut The Same, But Different (below) is …
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My bloke in high places
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Tone
My studio tends to be a bit mile-a-minute, with emails coming in, parcels going out, fabric being cut, meetings being held – it’s all a bit mad, most of the time. Paul‘s, on the other hand, is a quiet space, where the soft whirr and crush of a pencil sharpener is just about all there …
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And… he’s off!
Paul Edmunds, husband o’ mine, won’t be sitting in his studio chair enjoying the winter sunshine this week, cos he set off for New York yesterday, the lucky bum! Go say hi to Paul on Saturday, when the show at RH Gallery opens. It’s at 137 Duane Street, TriBeCa, between West Broadway and Church.
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Russian Fairy Tales
Medina has had this beautifully illustrated book in the studio all week. The illustrator is Henry R Martin, and I love the effect to which he puts just three colours, along with the white space of the page, and also the way he frames his illustrations. Most inspiring, Mr Martin!
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Save the date
If you live in New York City and would like to see some of Paul‘s work in the flesh, diarise 6pm, 25 September to visit RH Gallery at 137 Duane Street in Tribeca. It’s this gallery’s inaugural show, and Paul will have four works on show. He’ll be at the opening too, lucky thing!
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Gemma Ray
I think I’ve developed a bit of a girl crush on UK singer Gemma Ray since we saw her playing at a woefully ill-attended gig at the Purple Turtle on Saturday night. I loved the way that the stage was decorated with flowers, and she wore the cutest vintage dress and shoes, but she didn’t …
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Bernard Buffet
I spotted this image by Bernard Buffet in a World of Interiors yesterday, and then put in a tiny bit of effort to find out more about this artist.My skim of the Wikipedia page and Musee Bernard Buffet page told me that Buffet was a painter in Paris from the mid 1940s, and he died …
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Bicycle Portraits
After cycling a bit in New York, I’ve felt quite downhearted about just how tiny the bicycle culture is in South Africa. But I just heard something that’s given me a lot of hope for what’s possible back home: Avid cyclists and excellent photographers Stan Engelbrecht and Nic Grobler are travelling all over South Africa, …
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New photo in the house
New photo in the houseJust got this back from the framers. It’s by our friend Dave Southwood, who takes very nice photos.
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