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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 […]
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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 […]
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Behind the Lens
Fourteen-year-old Amaia Bacaicoa Jones from San Sebastian has been keeping occupied during the lockdown by taking photos.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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Nicaragua, Nicaragüita … Donostia
Every once in a while, this Covid-19 thing brings back flashes of Nicaragua, where I spent a good part of three years between 1983 and 1986, first as a cotton- and coffee-picking brigadista (that’s me with the shovel on latrine […]
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A Beautiful Day to go Nowhere
It was a beautiful day to go nowhere. The sun was shining, birds were singing, and spring was in the air. But Claudia and Martin were bored having to stay in the house for another long day of quarantine until… […]