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Thursday 29th August

29/8/2013

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Two regular group members arrived today and asked if I'd had a good holiday not having realised we had been back for a week already. One had been away to a vegan camp and brought in some  wild herbs he had foraged and potatoes given to him by his landlord. 
Another group member who works his friend's allotment arrived with freshly dug bounty. We had stuffed marrow, roast potatoes, beetroot, runner beans and salad for lunch - a feast!


Our triptych now has a pair of owls and a pigeon...
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…this watery watercolour was painted...
...and these words were written...
Hi my name is Richard Francis and I am just writing this little note for Laura by way of a big thankyou for the group she runs at Breadline Penzance.
Having unfortunately spent 3 months living on the street and only very recently now living in accommodation it is with great pleasure that I have this opportunity for mentioning the warm reception I received every thursday within her group.
The stress and I must say hardship I experienced whilst homeless was regularly broken up, giving me a days respite on those thursdays. Laura would and still does if the need arises greet me with a cup of coffee or tea from her limited resources - then a few hours spent in a very relaxed atmosphere would be spent painting or water colouring or simply reading the National Geographic magazines that Laura would hunt down and purchase for the group members. All of this would then be followed by a delicious meal that somehow Laura managed to cobble together for the group members.
So once again a Big Thankyou to Laura
Richard.

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Thursday 22nd August

22/8/2013

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It's been a quiet week after a 2 week holiday break. We made lunch from mostly vegetables and salad donated by a group member who works his friend's allotment. 
I had been to the Lost Gardens of Heligan and was showing one of the group photographs I had taken of a wildflower meadow, which inspired him to make a drawing.
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This wolf was drawn by someone who describes himself as a writer rather than a visual artist. He surprised himself by making this drawing and commented that it seemed as though he had picked up where he left off drawing as a child.
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Someone who has been part of our group for several months and who has just found somewhere to live in a nearby town made a drawing of a boat at sea. She hopes to return to the group from time to time.




Thank you to Sheila Oliner from all of us at Roaming Penzance

The above drawing was made using oil pastels and paper donated by artist Sheila Oliner who gave us these and much more when she moved out of her St.Ives studio earlier this year. Sheila has been a very good friend and mentor to me over the last 20 years. She has been supportive to this group with advice and materials and by attending our exhibitions. 
Sheila's working years in the area have been marked by her generosity to the local arts communities of St.Ives and Penzance where she shared her particular, highly-developed skills as a printmaking, drawing and painting teacher and mentor. 
Sheila's work can be found locally at the Wills Lane Gallery in St.Ives.
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Thursday 1st August

1/8/2013

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June and July have been very busy months for us at Roaming Penzance with lots of new people dropping in so this is the first week we've had time to give some thought to documentation. The following musings and images of work are from three regular group members:
I came in this morning feeling tired and then got inspired by my first painting of flowers. I’m always thinking of people when I’m doing my painting – they give me inspiration. I’ve done five paintings today and I don’t even feel tired now - I was ready for bed when I came in. I’ve had a positive day today. I can see after I’ve finished a painting, wow, I can stand back and see my emotions on the paper. I feel like I’ve achieved something. I can walk out of here and hold my head up. Just using the different colours - it flows – that’s why I like watercolours. I’m not going back to bed – I’m going to go and rejoice – tell the world.
I’ve enjoyed today. I was given a book on my way in about wolves and it created inspiration for me to paint wolves on the canvas. I see wolves as great companions, they are the pathfinder - the wolf finds the path you really want to find. Be in tune with the wolf and it will help you find your path – it has magical qualities and many gifts. It can teach people how to create community and to treat your brothers and sisters as one big tribe. Everything is connected, animals and humans.



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I feel I’ve been influenced just recently by some kind of influences from the past that are new to me but its just something about the present day and the art that is popular now particularly in England because there’s lots of stuff that comes in from the world and all sorts of really good stuff but some stuff that kind of sticks in my mind as to the expressing of English culture. I’m interested in this thing we have these days about gender roles because, you know, the world the way it is you have to survive by being very macho, sort of projecting a lot. I’ve been reading William Blake and he was a sort of medievalist mind but he was very ahead of his time as well. He drew on medieval and classical sources like a lot of people of that time because it was a romantic sort of allusion to the past. In a way he actually created his stories which is almost what people considered the backbone of English culture. But actually he was quite a popularist and he was creating a voice for the people. He mentions all these people of that time like Franklin and Thomas Paine and various people like that but they kind of come out of this story, which is his own rambling, visionary, prophetic story. He created a story by creating his characters and then illustrating them. Some of it’s very medieval and to do with anthropomorphism, zoomorphism, kind of creatures, and so on, woven into his paintings but a lot of it is very like modern graphic novels in a way, fantasy novels and Japanese Anime cartoons, you know fantastical larger than life and his figures have extraordinary contortions, they kind of sinuously blend in with things. Sometimes there’s flames coming out of them, it’s all very fiery, a lot of dragons. I think that’s kind of like childhood, a place for the imagination but also it’s like an idealized vision of what it is to be male and heroic and kind of macho, you know, rising up above everything and having strength, and so on, or even going through awful ordeals. He imagines these characters in all these situations and I think William Blake’s like that – very poetic, fiery. But now, I’ve just discovered Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes who lived in Newlyn and she was a little bit later than Blake and she was more concerned with nature, nature motifs and the actual day-to-day rhythms of people, women, and the emotional side of things and she used for her storytelling more natural forests and flowers and seasons, and so on, and the light, very very strong light, but very naturalistic. She had this thing where she was illustrating a different kind of fantasy, which was like the medievalist, romantic fantasy, but seen from her point of view, so they were still heroes but they were more human scale and more nature motifs. It was more nature spirits and that sort of openness to nature, and because she was connected with Newlyn woods, that’s close to here, it seems like that’s another echo of the past but it’s also English and romantic and rambling but its become more female. It’s like ladies with beautiful woven straw hats with flowers in them and things like that and chivalrous princesses and damsals, and so on. Very sweet, very true to her I think, very dreamlike but also telling the story of Arthurian times, recounting those heroes and so on but a female view of heroes. Blake’s heroes were all kind of semi-clad people with loads of muscles and extraordinary dancing energy, tumbling and becoming one with everything, which is as much an exploration in a way. I like to paint figuratively and it’s nice to feel there’s that in English culture in the past and that’s continuing to our time. There are so many children’s books of fairy tales and also there’s a lot of graphic novels and sort of fantasy imagination. Both suggest a kind of wildness really, childlikeness. I like that and I think that’s where I might be aiming for or I might be informed by that in the way I develop my art ideas. 

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