…Ronnie Cruwys. Now Ronnie has been commenting for ages and in May last year did a guest blog for us.
She says: The two pics attached are hot-off-the-press pics of my latest drawing of the Holloway road, which is part of the ancient highway – the Great North Road. The road continues up into York where I am just starting on another section. My streetscapes are getting around!
and: ‘I was born in Kent, grew up in York, went to school in Bahrain and studied architecture in Edinburgh and Sheffield. I married Iain in 1990 and moved to Staffordshire where I worked for 13 years as a conservation architect on the repair and maintenance of churches and historic farm buildings.
I made a career change in 2012 when I began drawing full length streets which I hope will stand as true architectural records . I am a student on Aidan Hart’s Icon Painting Diploma run by the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts. More about this in another blog…
We live in Staffordshire with a dog, two cats and a tortoise, the latter who joined our family when Rod Stewart first sang about Maggie May.’
Isn’t Ronnie’s work fab? (Lin)
and she ends with: Once again, thank you so much for my prize – I have used some really lovely sable and squirrel hair brushes from ‘Rosemary’s brushes’ which Aidan advised us to get. However, it wasn’t until I read your post that I understood the real characteristics and qualities of these brushes. Wonderful stuff, thanks Lin! You are remarkable! – Ronnie
Ronnie chose The Paintbrush Book as her prize.
I have revamped the title and the wording slightly to make it a little more general for any small person. Once I do a few more little books like this one, they’ll be available on my website. Lin
Woohoo! Thank you so much Lin! I am tickled pink with my prize – beautiful as well as useful! :-)))
Hello Lin,
I have been a teaching calligrapher and lettering artist for over thirty years and I STILL have and use the sable brushes I purchased all those years ago. They practically bankrupted mewith their exorbitant cost at the time, but every one of them is an old friend and as I have looked after them religiously over the years, is why they have served me so well for so long and now they are following me happily into painting and decorating with “tangling” patterns combined with calligraphy in my hand bound books which I now have the time to do…….for myself.
I love your “Ropes….” book, which a friend gave me for Christmas, it is just divine, you have a wonderful talent indeed!
I love sables. I remember when I was just emerging back into art from ‘poverty’ and having babies. I treated myself to a sable to celebrate. My youngest, then 2.5 years old had just learnt to cut for the first time and decimated my sable. Ahhhh! I could have wept. But, she has since made up for it by writing Rope of Words!
My prize has arrived! Thank you so much! I was hoping to post a pic here but not sure that I can. It is wonderful, a treasure!