Art From London Markets, a-n feature

So I have been sorting, mounting,framing pricing and wrapping prints ready for the Fortunate Events Sale on Friday at the Bald Faced Stag, East Finchley.

And working on my 3D piece to submit for the next plastic propaganda show,

Earlier version

This piece realtes to the trade in indigo sugar and slaves and a witness account written by Olaudah Equiano, former slave,  in 1779.

I have also been waiting for answers from a couple of applications…still waiting…. and taking Padma out for the day on Tuesday.  It was warm and sunny so I took her out to Letchworth again for the first time in months.   There are nolonger elephants on the A1M.  In fact she was silent the whole way there, which is becoming more common.  Instead of her telling me the stories from when she worked there, I was telling her her own stories back.  And later she remembered the day we had been there with Rohan and Mimi, and she smiled.  We sat under the apple blossom tree where we had sat a year ago, Mimi not sitting, but climbing them, and she talked about that day and sang some songs we had sung then.  She then told me a new story, she told me that when she was a girl she used to make her sister cry by telling her that the good apples only ripened for her herself, they only came when she went to the tree.  Her sister must have been small because she had believed her and cried.  In the afternoon she was aggitated and muddled again.  I am not so small but….

This week instead of shopping in a market I am selling prints in a market: the Fortunate Events May Fayre in the Bald Faced Stag East Finchley 11 to 4;  come along.