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A new way of seeing. Una nueva manera de ver.

How can it be so long since we last met ! Thank you for continuing to follow my blog.  As most of my readers are  Russian, I'm going to Google translate this for them.   ¿Cómo es posible que tanto tiempo ha pasado que no nos conocimos?  La mayoría de mis lectores son rusos, por eso  voy a Google traducir esta  para ellos.   Как это может быть так давно мы в последний раз встречались ! Спасибо за продолжая следовать мой блог . Как и большинство моих читателей русской , я собираюсь перевести это Google для них .  What a wonderful summer this has been.  Post chemo, life is just getting better and better. In May I got the first all clear from my new oncologist, then again on the 20th of July.  In October I left her office with a huge smile in my heart, and had a wonderful lunch on the beach with my dear young friend Maria. Ha sido un verano   maravilloso. Después de terminar la quimioterapia en mayo, cada semana   la vida ha sido mejor y mejor.   En mayo mi

A bit of a metaphor!

Greetings from La Fragua artists residency  @ Balalcar Monastery, near Cordoba, Spain. 2015. outside the main studio I've been here 6 weeks now, just two weeks left. Artists come and go.  The average stay is two months.  It's sad sometimes to say goodbye, but our new arrivals are always interesting. Nanao is from Japan.  Gio from Brazil. Here's what happened on Sunday ! Gio from Brazil. Yesterday, 3 of the new artists came with me to find a huge lake (the Embalse de La Serena) across the border in the province of Extramadura. They have bikes to cycle to the studio from their house in the village. I'm the only artist living in the convent, the only one with a car. So, we would have a picnic and they could swim, that was the idea, my idea actually. Fabulous they said in Portugese, German,  Italian and Japanese. We left at 3pm. Soon, we got extremely lost. The road was straight and empty and beautiful for almost 30kms. Finally we found o

Belalcazar.

Greetings from the Convent of Santa Clara ! Thank you for following me.  Most of my readers  it seems are in Russia , guess they just look at the art work, but every month people are dropping in from all round the world.  I so wish I knew  who you were. Please, sometimes, leave a message, or email me personally  @ megrobinson@yahoo.com. I'm  here for a month (hopefully a bit longer) in the 15th century monastery in the village of Belalcazar near Cordoba, Spain. Part of the monastery, now a convent, has been converted into an  international arts centre. Have a look at the  art's center/ convent's website : http://www.lafragua.es  .   You'll get an idea of what happening here.  It's exciting, stimulating,  nurturing,  humbling, and awe inspiring.  I'm staying in the convent making a part silent retreat, working on new blub books, and the other part I'm  making a new series of paintings on the theme of the Spanish Golden Age called La Conviv