Second important mission today: going to the framers.
I am privileged to be the possessor of a Susan Sanford original - Ancestral Voices - and today was the day we went to see Mr Girdwood.
Now Mr Girdwood is a framer, but he's also an artist, and the painter of one of my favourite pictures in my house. Which no one else likes that much, but I could stare at it for hours. In daylight it appears to be just different greys and browns, but look long enough and you begin to see the colour. I have deliberately taken a flash shot of it, so you can see the colours that float on the surface. The painting is called Night Moor, and I have dreamed a hundred different stories for it.
Back to Ancestral Voices. Not an easy one to frame, as I wanted to keep the whole thing visible, edge of the old photograph frame and all, which meant float mounting, which needs a very deep frame. Anyway, Mr Girdwood guided, I disagreed, and we eventually decided on an elm frame, but hand-stained. The elm will mature to a much more golden colour, while the staining primarily darkens the grain down. Here's the final decision.
I'll show you the final result once it's finished.
And as we were in town today, here's the iconic Dumfries shot. Yes, that's Mr Burns. The seagull is on retainer with the council, and gets an hourly rate.
Finally, my apologies for not getting round to everybody at the moment, but there's a lot going on at Essex home, my new pamphlet launches on September 7th, work gets a lot busier in the Autumn and there's this small thing called a university reading list...
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