Spent yesterday morning hanging 30 pictures in a barristers’ chambers- in preparation for this evening’s and last night’s drinks parties, at which the plan is to raise some money for Epic Arts whilst selling a few more Cambodia pictures. I did sell this one- I am pleased but of course it’s always one’s favourites that go first.
Boys fishing, Siem Reap I, oil on board 8 by 10 ins
It’s interesting that the man who bought this did not do so because he had been to Cambodia or was a keen fisherman. Rather, it reminded him of his 3 sons, and he spoke of the Cambodian boys’ body language that somehow seems to him to be universal. I am pleased to have achieved that- there is or should be a sense drawing out something that speaks to everyone in my pictures, despite the starting point of very particular subject matter that is observed in a specific time and place. Good. Onwards, etc.