1000 St Mary's Islands

At the moment I am involved in a project imaginatively entitled '1000 St Mary's Islands' Me and about 89 other drawers and painters are busy producing 1000 post card size(5and a half by 4 inch) drawings and paintings of the island and lighhouse. 'Why on earth?' you ask. Well, mainly for fun but also to see if it sparks the imagination to take a subject some may think has been done to death and see if we can find a fresh angle. I have produced about 70 so far (yes art is a form of madness but a benign form) and I am not sick of it yet. I have had some great mornings down ther on my bike with my sketchbook and camera and have found for me some fresh views thought the usual view isn't bad either, and what if 'everybody' has done it, its a lovely subject.

One of the ladies from my friday group told a friend that we were doing St Mary's Island, 'How boring' her friend commented, 'not the way we are doing it!' the first lady responded. And I think she was right, its not what you you its the way....

The results will be displayed at a coffee morning at the Linskill cnetre on May 12 and therafter for a fornight at Whitley Bay library, the Lighthouse itself and probably one or two other venues (Although the individual pics are small the overall size will be huge!)