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Sylvia Evans

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Am helping organise an exhibition of our collaborative sketch books . Here are just a few. These will be on show as sketch books and on the wall we will have finished works from them. Our own Amanda Bates is one of our exhibitors as is David Perry...I hope . This will all happen in March at Theatr Clwyd in Mold. We are about 14 exhibitors all women apart from David. Herding cats springs to mind .
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Marjorie Firth

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That looks as though it'll be an interesting exhibition Sylvia. Good luck with it all.
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Lewis Cooper

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How wonderful. What a fascinating array of sketchbooks. Considering I've been drawing all my life I have very few sketchbooks. I came to them late in life. I love 'em. They are each a self-contained 'gallery' of ideas. Mine contain rough scribbled ideas that mean nothing to anyone else, through to fully finished works that should have been done on better paper. They sometimes result in paintings, but often the sketchbook version has more life. There are some fascinating books shown in your photos, I'd love to look through them. It's a brilliant idea, I wish you every success with it. Lew.
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Anonymous User

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A grand job, Sylvia. Not many artists like to share their sketchbook work, so, thank you all you lovely artist for sharing. That must have been irritating, Pat, to say the least. Maybe people should be pre-advised 'not to touch' the displays.
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I certainly know what you mean, Pat. Respect seems to be a foreign word for some, thank goodness its a very small minority.
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Sorry to interrupt, just to ask- I have just popped in to see a PM and replied, but it says there are two, can't find the other one, so to the person who sent it, my apologies, I'm not ignoring you, just can't see it.

Michael Robinson

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Sounds great Sylvia, good luck with it! I like the 'herding cats'!
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Robert Jones, Napa

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I've got a lot of sketch-books, but very little colour work in any of them; and I wouldn't have thought their contents were on the whole fit to be seen - no filf n'smut, you understand, just that my sketches are nearly always just that - sketchy scribbles, with illegible to anyone else (and sometimes to me) notes in pencil. Looking at that collection above, a lot of time and attention has been devoted to the images - but if I did that, I'd lose interest.... if I spend a lot of time on a sketch, that tends to satisfy all I wanted to say about it; so the painting I'd intended never gets done. And that's why I've never joined in Sylvia's sketchbook collaboration: sheer shame! But it's a good idea, if you've work worth showing.

Margaret Nisbet

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Best of luck with this Sylvia. I have quite a few sketch books myself and love to see others - wish I could see your exhibition (too far away). Looks like will it be a really interesting exhibition - hope it goes well :)