If you look very carefully at the framed print above Peter’s ship you might spot the sea captain’s ship on his mantelpiece. Thank you Shirley for sending us this from the Edward Ardizzone exhibition in London.
How wonderful when you recognise the selfsame image you came across on a vague, unstructured walk in the Drakensberg in a display at the lovely, charming Himeville Museum, 17 km away.
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A detail on a huge boulder that has rolled down into the valley many years ago. A smidgen of artistry which you need to search for in the immense landscape given over to a soaring multipication of individual rocks or rock types any of which could hide the handiwork of these artists.
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A detail in a just-right museum display where each small cell of what was once a prison is given over to one theme modestly teased out. ( How successful I think this arrangement is mentally comparing it to the too-full, overdone, noisy experience in many big, modern museum spaces.)
From ‘ Outing in the Cuore’
From ‘Outing in the half-loaf’
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My parents, George and Yehudith Jameson at the launch of a solo exhibition of my mother’s paintings at Upstairs@Bamboo in Melville, Johannesburg on 15th October, 2016
The Battle Cave is well known for it’s Bushman/San paintings. But I did not expect to find these three in amongst the plethora of more familiar images. The positioning of the figures, the subtle differences between them, their delightful stance. They tell a complete story, a universal story, a story that dwells in our very bones. They might be shamans as is the current understanding of much Bushman art. The tall hats might even affirm this. To see them after a long hike into the valley from Injesuthi was both a surprise and a re-meeting of old friends.
A walk I will never forget in Cobham, South Drakensberg
At age 90, Yehudith will get a chance to show off her considerable talents as a painter, dreamer, colourist and imaginer
A friend came visiting with this gift. It’s a citron called Buddha’s hand. Smells citrus-stunning, looks vegetable-cunning. Makes me stupidly happy. I am finding that I have a zest for all things zesty. It takes very small things…
My brilliant painting career
It’s in this spirit, I paint.