Into the Sunset
So, the writing is back. I have reformatted The Nature of Art and the Art of Nature and am now checking it through one last time before I send it to the publishers. This feels good. I haven’t stopped painting though. Luckily the original, hanging on the wall, looks better than the photo. My angles are all wrong and the colours are definitely not as sharp as in the original. As I always said, when introducing Spanish Art via slides and photos: “Do not trust the imitations. Go back to the original.” Easier said than done, especially when the original may be tucked away in a foreign museum hidden in a small town. As Dylan Thomas once said of Swansea Museum: “it’s the sort of museum that ought to be in a museum.”
As for the Introduction of Art, and please note I do not write ‘the teaching of art’, here’s my article on my career as an art facilitator! ‘In the beginning was the picture and the picture was in the book.’ I guess my art career ran parallel to my career as a facilitator of Spanish literature, prose, theatre, and poetry. Some things you can present and introduce. But no, you cannot teach them, not unless you are completely without humility and understanding.
rogermoorepoet 
Thank you, my friend. Taking baby steps but I have the idea now and the rest will follow in time. And it IS exciting to be doing something active again.
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Lovely. It would be nice to be able to paint. If there should be a way to hang my apron on the wall it might pass as a work of art but it would require a very special frame
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It’s been done before: and people have won awards for doing so. It’s all a part of modern creativity! Less work and more creative!
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I have a few rewards under my belt, Roger, but none for something this lovely. Only one I would ever even display if I thought anyone would be interested. Maybe some day. BTW, I’m working on the beginning of that book!
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Now this is the most exciting thing: working on the beginning of that book. As for the awards, I cannot give you awards, for I have none, but I can give you accolades and I can applaud the awards you have won. Keep being YOU! You are unique.
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