Windy day at the school party.

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18/09/2020
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Pencil portrait of Ashley, a teacher at the school where my wife worked in 1965. It catered for pupils with severe learning difficulties in the Southampton area. My wife thought she was an inspired teacher and judging by the throng around her throughout the day she must have been someone very special to the children. We kept in touch with her via letters each Xmas until three years ago.

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Tom Small

In 1979 my wife organised a series of painting lessons with a French Artist who taught art in a college in north west London. The painting lessons turned out to be anything but. For ten months he made me draw anything from toe nail clippings to the pieta and paintings in the various galleries…

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