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SYP Part 5

Moving On

The day after our exhibition had finished, I heard from my sister that my father had finally accepted that at 99 and now totally blind he wasn’t going to be able to leave the care home and return to his cottage in Norfolk, and had therefore decided to sell it. Given the demand for cottages in Burnham Market we realised that things could move very fast. This had implications for me as I had been using his garage as a studio for my oil painting as the solvents were causing health problems for my partner at home. 

I set about trying to find a studio that I could rent in Cambridge and I knew that St Barnabas Press (a printmaking centre) sometimes had studios available so a quick visit and chat to the owner meant that he had my details if anything came available. I knew turnover tended to be rather slow, so I was very surprised to get a message just a couple of weeks later to say that someone had had to move out at short notice and was I interested? 

So the long story short is that I’m in the process of moving in to my new studio space and really looking forward to being able to work in oils again and also to being in an environment with other artists, including painters, printmakers and a writer, and another bonus is that the print workshop also doubles as a frame makers.

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