A great time spent in London.
Still feeling a bit tired from all the walking from gallery to gallery so I decided to found myself reclining on my sofa sifting through that amazing BBCiplayer only to find Rolf Harris looking at Welsh Art re the miners. Another one about the female artist Shani Rhys James, herself an Aussie.
It was a total shock to me, having not recognised the name or any knowledge of her work to find that we had rented her cottage that is next to her studio about 7 years ago in Wales. Rolf was sat with her outside the beautiful cottage we had spent a week in oblivious to the knowledge that she was famous around the world for her paintings; usually self portraits influenced by her childhood up to the age of 9 in Austrailia. One of her paintings was hung in the cottage....7 years ago I wasn't at art college so perhaps I would have reacted differently anyway, but even so what a missed opportunity. One of her larger paintings was hung in the Royal Academy last year.
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