Sorry about that....especially you Patsy (thanks for your concern)....I had lots on in June and July so just have not been able to blog. In fact, have not been able to do much art either. I have had a constant stream of visitors for nearly eight weeks and they are camping out in my art room (has a sofa bed and is more private than the sofa bed in the lounge) but that means I cannot do art and I have been itching to do some for weeks now..... I can't wait for my most recent visitor to go - and I mean that in the nicest possible way - not that I am not happy to see said visitor but I just want to get back into my art and art room. I have been to a few exhibitions recently. I spent a day trawling the galleries on Cork Street, where I caught the last day of Donald Hamilton Fraser, plus I discovered Ffiona Lewis. I also saw Jeff Koons at the Serpentine, the Summer Exhibition and Waterhouse at the Royal Academy, some of the "Artist Rooms" at the Tate Modern, plus Telling Tales at the V&A (that is one strange exhibition - definitely one of two halves and I infinitely prefer the first half!).....oh I have been to so many galleries in the past couple of weeks I just can't remember them all! Now I am desperately trying to find a way to get to Truro in September to see Kurt Jackson...he no longer has a London gallery and I love his work. So my brother's wedding has come and gone. It was at Langley Castle (near Newcastle) and so I spent a week with my family "Up North" visiting Chesterfield, the Lakes District, Whitby, York as well as the wedding itself. Not much opportunity for gallerying there (too much driving) but did take some nice photos. I was kinda the unofficial photographer on the eve and day (evening though there was a photographer on the day) so it was a good excuse to play with the new camera. Of course the downside is now everyone is planning my wedding (what is it with wedding fever?) but luckily there is currently no man on the scene so its is not going to happen that quick. That doesn't seem to faze my SIL, who has ideas on that too....definitely time to hide away in the art room. Lastly, I have booked myself on the painting course at City Lit. Basically every Friday morning for the the next year I will have to paint. It seemed like a good way to just get me to start producing work and being more brave about it. There are three"terms" and it runs for ten weeks each term. I will let you know how I get on. So I hope you are all doing well and promise to start catching up with what y'all have been doing over the next couple of weeks! Keep on being creative..... K