We went to Canterbury yesterday mainly for me to see the
exhibition of Brian Francis drawings at The Beaney, there is also the Kate
MccGwire exhibition
http://www.canterbury.co.uk/Beaney/whats_on/Lure.aspx
which is mostly artwork made out of feathers, which isn’t my bag baby.
I went on to Chromos the big art shop in Canterbury
http://www.chromosart.co.uk/ where they
told me that they have stopped doing the Winsor and Newton watercolour I use.
They said this was because the quality was impaired since the paint
manufacturer had moved their factory to China. Frankly I didn’t believe this as
I would soon know if the quality changed, so I left there a bit dazed and
confused.
My guess is the Chinese have been manufacturing paint for a
lot longer than the English have, the suggestion that they had been cutting
down on the pigments still seems laughable.
On the art front I have had so much difficulty getting out
painting that I am capitulating and going to do some Ramsgate sketches from
photos. One view I particularly want to do is looking from roughly the top of
the sailors church
The idea is to get the Granville Albion House harbour parade
bit over on the left with the harbour filling the rest of the picture.
Condensing the view to fit on a bit of A2 paper.
I recently bought a 70s watercolour that does this and have
the photos and painting arranged around a rather alarmingly blank piece of paper.
Here is a blow up of the signature, does anyone recognise the artist
I am not getting very far with my attempts to get people to
consider a scaled down Manson Airport and most of those campaigning to save the
airport only seem to be able to think in terms of London’s third airport, with
no suggestions as to how this would be paid for, or who would use it.
There is also a “why don’t the council do something” group
who don’t seem to understand that the decisions there are not really the
council’s to make.
The new development near where Nero’s is growing rapidly.
My concern with this one was that they seem to have covered
up arches that should have been repaired first.
Like the slipways development I didn’t object to this one,
as I couldn’t really se any valid grounds.
As the page at the end of the link may vanish, here is the relevant
part, KLM representative in an interview with Air Transport World 07/04/14 said:
“We can’t do business in a shaky environment. That’s not
possible, not for the company, or our customers,” Kreiken said.
He ruled out a resumption of the routes, even if the
airport continues operations. “Now it is game over; we will redeploy the
aircraft. We are gone. We can’t flip-flop in and out all the time. That is not
the way we work.”
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