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Myrea’s workout in Scotland
My daily routine is keeping fit and eating healthy food and drinking plenty of water. I had just been to Bournemouth to celebrate my artist friend Josephine Wall’s wonderful 60th birthday party and then it was straight up to Scotland … Continue reading
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Myrea tries to speak Swedish
I was never fortunate enough to learn languages, Art was my forte, but I so want to be able to speak a few words and be courteous when visiting such kind people as Ann Mari in her home, her hospitality … Continue reading
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Watercolor Tutoring with Ann Mari
It would be hard to explain the emotion and the thrill I experienced to actually sit down with the artist who influenced my childhood imaginations with their drawings from books published in what to me was a bye gone age. … Continue reading
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Rediscovered and republished
Wonderful to discuss with Ann Mari all her works which she was so excited to show Per Arne and myself. I could feel her enthusiasm to reveal all her work that had for many years now simply been shut away. … Continue reading
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Ann Mari presents me with an original painting
Down by her lakeside cabin where she painted for many years and where Ann Mari saw all her fairy characters this has to be my inspirational picture too. I now have this framed in my home a lasting memory of … Continue reading
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Ann Mari and me in Sweden
The wonderful Per Arne helped me to discover Ann Mari Sjogren living quietly in Helsingborg Sweden in 2002. Considering her first book which was such a great success round the world ‘A Day in fairyland ‘was published in 1947 we … Continue reading
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I’m Doing the Green Thing
Painted for ‘Do the green thing’ My picture shows the unfortunate catastrophe of constant rain , floods and storms over what was London. Humankind were adapting to the years of change and were beginning to look and adapt like water … Continue reading
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Summer Solstice
Well I might not have been at Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain to watch the sunrise, but my day was just as exciting when the postman delivered a square boxed parcel from the USA. What a unexpected gift awaited me, for … Continue reading
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i’m so excited
Oh wow Alan has presented me with this new site I’m so excited to have something to build
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