Travels with MySelf

Sketchbook

Here are some of my sketches, from the early 1980s onwards. They give a some kind of picture of where I've been and how I felt about it. I can vouch anyway for the therapeutic effect of filling your mind with a subject, and attempting to produce an image of it.

In 1982, at Charles's house, at Relugas Mill, in Morayshire, Scotland

In Bridport, Dorset in 1986 with my mother

Youth hostel on the Gower peninsular, 1987. Simon and Zoe, with Birdy's children, climbed out of the window to break the curfew

Hickling Broad, Norfolk, on the way to Martin's

Staying at Martin's house in Gorleston, in 1987, with Tio, Jack, Eileen, Helen and Richard

In Australia

Taylor Street, Toowoomba 1988

Beach house in Caloundra, Queensland, 1988

Beach at Caloundra

Wreck at Dicky beach, Queensland, 1988

Dicky beach, Queensland, 1988

Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, 1988

Annie and Pierangelo's, Sydney, 19 94

At ByronBay, NSW, 1994

Watching Australia vs England, Toowoomba, 1994

Quince outside Queenslander window, Christmas 1995

Cat by Margaret and Bob's pool, Victoria Park, Perth 1996

Cylinder beach, Stradbroke, 1996

Cottesloe Beach, Perth 1996

From the carport, Goulnan Street, Brisbane 2002

Eileen's Orange tree, Chapeltown 2002

MALAWI, 1990

Central Blantyre

Red Cross house, Blantyre

On the shore of Lake Malawi

Dusk on the Nyika Plateau

Ibiza

Cala d'Hort , 1993

Southwold

Southwold, a 1950s-style Suffolk resort was a favourite destination for a summer week with Tio and my mother (Gran) we enjoyed the food and drink courtesy of Adnams, and the adjoining former art-colony of Walberswick.