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Lockdown Reading
One of the jobs I had written on my long list of things to do during the lockdown was to sort through my bookshelves and try to put my books in some kind of alphabetical order. Nearly a month later […]
Month: April 2020
Art
Terrace Birds
As I sit drinking my morning coffee I am lucky to be able to watch birds come into my terrace to feed on bread crumbs we put out for them. They are your regular garden birds but all so pretty […]
Coronavirus
Memory Quilt
There is something about living in isolation that stirs the memory of similar experiences, maybe as a way for the mind to cope or to be reassured that this, too, shall pass. When I was seven, I spent a summer […]
Art
More Chillida: Cube Stone Metal
These three Chillida Leku Sculpture illustrations were drawn from photos I took on a visit to this wonderful museum back in the summer of last year. I have invented the titles for each one as I cannot remember them and […]
Art
Behind the Lens
Fourteen-year-old Amaia Bacaicoa Jones from San Sebastian has been keeping occupied during the lockdown by taking photos.
Art
Cantabrian Sea Life
I wanted to draw a series of Cantabrian fish. The local ones that are so popular in the Donosti Aquarium (and also in the restaurants!). My first and probably favourite is the humble Anchovy, or not quite so humble as […]
Coronavirus
Escape From Intxaurrondo II: Resilience
As of this last weekend, my mother-in-law has been locked down for one month. Thirty one days, by herself, in her apartment, in a neighborhood called Herrera, on the outer edges of San Sebastian. And while the rest of us, […]
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Inspired by Chillida Leku
Inspired by Chillida Leku, I have recently drawn some of my favourite sculptures of his, starting with what is without a doubt his most famous, the Peine del Viento, The Comb of the Wind. It stands at the end of […]
Coronavirus
Last Easter
I’ve just received a lovely message from my niece in the UK wishing me a Happy Easter, and we reminded each other of how we had been together this time last year. In the current situation, I would have probably […]
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