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I came to Seychelles for a holiday before going back to England
but the holiday turned into a lot of fun so I stayed here
and I sent for my wife
from Nairobi she was teaching
she came here and we got married
that's the story
there is many people that have the same story
Seychelles is a magnet
it's a lodestone
and so I stayed
and then we had children and planted mango tree
and the philosopher says when you do those things you belong
so I am still here thirty five years ago I came
if you take something
on its own you can make a jewel out of it you know so these are like boulders I focus on each one
like a piece of jewellery
and then I put it together
in order to make a tapestry
I'm not trying to be a camera I am just trying to give you something to focus on
if you want peace of mind
if you want uh, music without listening to it, you can see there is music inside paint
we have three open areas
another one down by the pool and then a new one coming up where we will have the paths
with 24
treeferns, that should be quite interesting
You have juxtaposition of different kinds of plants
very complex shadows wonderful light in between the plants
I wouldn't do a painting from one place only. I would do
a little piece move on, do another piece, move on
Another piece so you
have a mixture of
different bits of landscapes
when I first came to Seychelles
I used to the to draw people and paint landscapes
but now after 35 years I'm beginning to to to do the paintings from the drawings I did
all that time ago.
he is a grand old man
of Seychelles, he fits into the landscape in fact he owned Silhouette island
the Archbishop of the Indian ocean
a very holy man
after a conversation with him you feel uplifted
this is the first lady of Seychelles, Geva Rene, she has the eyes of someone who has been living on an island
this is the Maharadja
Maharaja Gaj Singh Jodhpur
with the bollywood eyes
Bob Noddyn was an interesting character, he was a mercenary
in the congo
with Mike ***
but he became peaceful perso. This would be one of the next ones that I would do. Captain Edmond.
I am not really speaking about cameras and
by rules
there is no rules
You can do what you want but
Tchaikovsky said
there is no great art without great craft