My Prolonged Absence - Totally Worth It!

Self Portrait - chalk pastel on watercolour paper

As you may have gathered from the last post I made, my invasive neighbours and clueless land-lady were getting to me a little bit. As a result, Clive and I went to lawyers, told them they were in breach of contract and law and joyously cancelled our lease.

After a bit of running around, we found a tiny farmhouse and moved to Elandskraal, 10km inland from Sedgefield. It is so beautiful here I want to cry! There are horses. There will be pictures.

Unfortunately I have almost zero internet access. I can check one of my email addresses on my phone and I can access some parts of Facebook. Since the internet is my only news source, I didn't even know about the protests in Egypt or Nelson Mandela's hospitalisation!

I will be trying to upload images and get everything up to date as best I can whenever I can get to a real, grown-up internet connection. For now, Enjoy this pastel self-portrait taken from a photo of me when we were still living in Muizenberg. I did this the other day and it was supposed to be a light sketch to be used as the basis for a watercolour painting but it just turned out so damn well that I'm keeping it as is.

This piece may be included in a group exhibition I'm doing in March/April this year. I'm going to be exhibiting a whole bunch of my latest nudes (which I will also post here when I can).

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