There was more colour in today’s sunrise….
A lovely day today with our eldest daughter who came to help us with a couple of jobs,one being to move our large piece by Tony Foster which has been on the landing since we bought it in 2021 and not properly seen. Now it’s in the hallway and can be really appreciated. Each of the little paintings is beautifully detailed and has a pencil description ..
We had a treat today as tomorrow my lovely Mr S goes into hospital for a TKR, total knee replacement, so we’ll be at home for a few weeks as he recovers. I may not post every day over the next few weeks.
The exhibition, Exploring Time, is the work of one of our favourite artists, Tony Foster, who travels from his home in Cornwall to remote places with his tent, his paper and water colours. He has painted, among other places, The Grand Canyon, Everest, rain forests, the Galapagos Islands and locally and I love how he adds a tiny map and little piece of nature to each painting – tubes of sand, a pebble or two, a shell or pressed flowers – truly beautiful work.
If you want to know more, just put his name in my search bar. Enjoy today’s photos. Click on each to expand to read his pencil notes at the bottom of each painting and if you are local, do go along and immerse yourself in these precious reminders of the fragility of this beautiful earth we inhabit.
Grand Canyon
Chapel Porth
Jurassic Coast
Cornish Oak
And this is his tent!
We have one of his Lockdown pieces at home. https://mybeautfulthings.com/2021/10/22/cottage-cygnets-and-meeting-the-artist/
We went to Stable Art, framers, near Bodmin this morning to collect our Christmas present, Lockdown I by Tony Foster. I really want to open it up and hang it!
While we were there the most beautiful little car turned up. Talking to the owner, we discovered that it is one of only 19 and is No 8 of those, made in Helston. The AA badge belonged to his father when the family was living in Africa. If you’d like to know more, this link is informative.
After that trip we went into Truro to do some (successful) Christmas shopping. The Angels are lit up all along Boscawen Street.
We met our friends for breakfast at The Heron on the side of the Malpas River and had a delicious breakfast with delightful company. Across the water is this lovely white cottage with its own stone steps down to the beach. 
Walking away, we spotted two swan families on the water with six cygnets between them. 
Afterwards we went into Truro to the museum to collect the print of Tony Foster’s Lockdown diary 1 which I fell in love with when we first saw it a couple of weeks ago. I showed you Lockdown Diary 2 in a post that day. You can see it here. You’ll be able to see the print when it has been framed.
I was excited about collecting the print and even more so when the staff said that Tony Foster was in the gallery and that I should go and meet him. What a lovely, friendly man! He was so easy to chat to, about his paintings, about the Grand Canyon, about the danger our beautiful and fragile planet is in, about lockdown and his delightful record of those strange days. He was gracious enough to let me get a photo for this blog. He is standing by Lockdown Diary 1, a copy of which will be on our wall before too long. 
At the back of the catalogue are the following words.
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