Hi Katie-Jane and thanks for the thought we bought two prints from our gallery and have just got them back from the framers just fantastic...this isn't usually my sort of thing but he seem to paint with his soul and it shows...Hubby's going to order one of the red and black ones which I love from the Tate Modern I havn't been in the Tate since the 60's...unfortunately my back is a permanent injury carrying out my duties as a nurse so it's take the pills and rest...but too much rest is not good got to keep active which I do normally but I'm hell bent on wearing the heels for the wedding I'll take the pills and rest all week...when you see the exhibition give us one of your lovely descriptions as you did with St. Ives

Thanks Patsy. If only I had known about Rothko, I could have sent you a postcard... the Tate Modern just has an exhibition that finished February past. Now its Rodchenko and Popova, which I must go an see!

Hi Katie-Jane I'm so out of date with artists going to have to get on the web and do a bit of study...or a nice holiday to the Old Country...Hubby is heavily into Mark Rothko at the moment and emailed me some more of his works today...they where the Tate ones we now have an orangy one on the computer screen...the two prints we bought are at the framers and will be ready of Friday so looking forward to that...Happy Belated Birthday

Thank you all for your kind comments. Robert, yes it is cornwall John Piper (of the Newlyn Society of Arts) and Neil Davies is the one working out of Hellesveor if anyone wants to check out his work.

Hi KatieJane...thank you for taking us there in your blog...sounds very good too...

This sounded a great holiday doing the things you love the best & it seems as though you packed a lot of things into the trip what a lovely way to spend a birthday.

It sounds a wonderful break KatieJane, I too really like John Piper's paintings (the one who lives in Cornwall, paints cornish farmhouses, not the one who did the window in Coventry Cathedral, I assume?). Maureen, we visited St Ives on our honeymoon in 1974, bought a ceramic from the Bernard Leach pottery. In fact we stayed at Port Isaac in a pink hotel overlooking the bay; we went back for the first time last year on a nostalgia trip, it was being demolished! How sad is that?

February 4th. 1961 - 47 years ago Himself & I spent our honeymoon in St. Ives. We took our children for holidays and spent some wonderful days in the sun on Porthmeor beach. We go back as often as possible. Who wouldn't want to live there. There are souveniers about the house to trigger memories. If you ever have the opportunity, don't think about it, DO IT. I wish.....

Hey KatieJane what a wonderful weekend and how well you describe it...being a picture thinker I made a little movie in my head and walked with you...now I want to live in St. Ives sounds like a wonderful place...I have never been there but it sounds just right up our alley...isn't it funny how when you live in a country how little one sees of it...the couple of times we have been back on holiday we have seen more of the old country than we did when we lived there...looking forward to seeing your sketches...how was the weather down in St Ives?

I would like to live in Cornwall............. wonderful place !