Portfolio

When I realised that I could no longer cope with the weight of screens and media I had little choice but to think about the future and my artwork post having the studio. Initially this was trying digital and also going back to doing more life drawing. Neither reached the spot. Dana suggested that I go back to Architecture which I should have done some nearly fifty years ago.

I found lots of old photographs probably from Rose which were originally my grandmothers

June 2025 Marcia arranged for a cousins gathering at her house in Englefield Green

Gwen had issues when young and her ability of drawing was probably helped by the fact that her mother would not allow her to school until she had mastered the muscles in her face which were damaged by surgery for a mastoid.

After several years at Hyman Fine House, the Jewish Care home in Brighton our mother Gwen died.

We now have a baby kitten totally black and fluffy and also an older tabby cat as replacement for Pandora.

I have transferred the old family films and pictures and placed them on the web. For the videos and films I have put them into a format similar to You Tube so that they will play on a mobile device.

I found lots of photographs of Canons Drive

My mother kept a detailed record of my early years - I think probably until she became pregnant with my sister

Gwen sang throughout our lives from her time singing for Ensa in Canada during the war.

I decided that as well as videos and family films it would be interesting to have a repository of family films

We found a whole pile of photographs of my mother in Canada where she was between 1939 at the start of the war and 1946 when she came to the UK.

When I came back to do artwork after many years of working as I did as a Chartered Accountant both in the City and also running a public company I started life drawing. I then went back to do foundation, a degree in printmaking and then a masters and my artwork was primary printmaking.