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John, could you please make your own comments on your sketches?
John, could you please make your own comments on your sketches?
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If you click on these pictures, you will see John's comments on it. Thank you John!
These drawings and this sketchbook played an important part in enabling me to revive or reclaim my passion for drawing. This was the first sketchbook I had owned after a thirty-year hiatus in my practice of drawing. I had started it while on a trip to Oslo representing the Northern Ireland Tourist Board at a conference on ecotourism. Three years on and the book was less than half full. Then I was asked to accompany a somewhat shy, Hungarian friend to a meeting of Creative writers amongst the European Commission's 2008 cohort of Summer Stagiares. I agreed but insisted that I would slip out once the talk started. But when the time came, I found myself boxed in, with no easy way out and a sketchbook in my hand. So what could I do but sketch; the first being the dark one with the wagging finger. And from that day, and for the next few months, I became the artist-in-residence amongst the Brussels Nerds, and am delighted that my drawings still feature as the banner on their blog. I have so much admiration for all of these folks who were writing great prose and poetry in what was their second or third language. You all became my friends and I hope that I managed to contribute as much to the group as I gained from it. While the sketches are not wonderful, the indivdual portraits are pretty recognisable, and for me they are packed with some very happy memories. John R November 2018
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