October Pursuits

 So what has been happening since last time...? Well quite a bit as a matter of fact.

I went to London to stay with dear friends Patricia nd Les in their lovely new Ladbroke Grove abode, and also to see the site for my new commission of a painted floor cloth at Maids of Honour's Row in Richmond, a beautiful Grade One Listed Georgian House, which appeared in the Illustrated London News in 1749:

and which is now the property of a Scottish entrepreneur who wants to restore it all to its former glory, including having the splendid entrance/reception room with its dramatic painted panels furnished with a floor cloth, which he will allow to be a little more exciting than the depiction above, leaving it to me to incorporate some details which reflects the wall scheme onto the floor, perhaps in a border... working on the designs now, so let's see...

                                               below details for border on first sketches...

And back in Siena there has been plenty of  activities of various kinds: the contradas have had their 'Banchetti' which mark the end of the year's activities, and here am I  with Luca who is on his way to the Chiocciola (The Snail contrada)  party last Sunday while I am ready to go to the ONDA do. Luca is Swiss, he stays here with me sometimes  when he visits his friends in the Chiocciola, where his mother lived when he was a small boy. 

And I went off to enjoy the ONDA street party with my old friend the jewellery designer Neville, who has visited me from Mexico where he now lives- we met at the Royal College of Art forty years ago (!) and shared a studio in London in the late eighties...