Lizzie Borden

Lizzie Borden born today in 1860. Notorious for having been a prime suspect in the axe murders of her father and stepmother. Who is to know the truth?
In any case she captured the imagination of the popular media at the time and has so ever since. Her name crops up frequently in theatre and musicals etc.
The two skulls are the parents.

He would have been seventy today...

...twenty years older than he thought he should be anyway.
Hunter Stockton Thompson born in Louisville, Kentucky today in 1937, the Gonzo journalist who committed suicide a couple of years ago. Here in a self-portrait which looks like it was taken in Big Sur.

Eleanora Fagan aka Lady Day

Billie Holiday died today in NYC at the age of 44 in 1959.

Content with Silence

There is a new piece by Linda Gordon up on her website of the above title Content with Silence please check it out on her website - see under LINKS. Then look under Featured Works. It is such a beautiful piece of stillness and meditation with the tide and primal form.

Rembrandt van Rijn

Rembrandt van Rijn born today in 1606. We are so lucky that his paintings have survived for us to see now.

Order of works:
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The Martins at CAC (Camden Arts Center) in London on the Finchley Road.
This week I shall be in London for the long-awaited retrospective exhibition of Kenneth and Mary Martin, two prominent constructivist artists. They lived and worked in London and here for the first time in 30 years is an opportunity to see their work side by side. A catalogue will be published for the occasion and the show will travel to Tate St Ives in Cornwall as well as to Bexhill on Sea in Sussex.
Do try to see it or at least look at a catalogue!
Until soon...

Born today Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin in 1838 in Konstanz near Bodensee, Germany.
The inventor of the Zeppelin a formidable air ship.