Hilary Fawcett
@hboomer
Art, design, Italy, football (SAFC), politics, music and coffee. Looking out across the mighty North Sea Artwork at hilaryfawcett.artweb.com
St Mary’s lighthouse on this beautiful day. Low humidity, a light sea breeze, and pleasantly warm here on the North East coast
I’m sorting out old photos and there are many. These are my grandparents Arthur and Lizzie in 1914, before he went off to the Western Front as a stretcher bearer He was the youngest of 20 children and very stoic, as you would be.
This is purported to be the Southampton spy. Has an Ealing Comedy quality about it
Sorting out old photos Me at 13 in 1963 in Rome on a school trip with the nuns. I was attacked by a plague of wasps shortly after this photo was taken. I wonder why ?
Latest Tory Party canvassing. Letter in mauve envelope, looks like possible greetings card, part hand written , allegedly coming from a neighbour. Lengthy text declaring after long preamble that only voting Tory will keep Reform out. No acknowledgement of real source
Listening to one of the first albums I ever bought, and it sounds just as fresh, just as beautiful
Today, on International Women’s Day, the artist Kathe Kollwitz, whose work served as an indictment of war Let us remember the heartbreak of all those women who gave birth to, loved and nurtured their children only to have them destroyed by war. I cannot imagine how that feels
Lucian Freud and Caroline Blackwood looking strained Portrait of Caroline Blackwood