Update on hacking

 After hours of trying to sort out my email address with my service provider. I was told it is unlikely that they will be able to retrieve my emails and contacts. I had another email address, which I will use, but it is going to take me ages to sort out contacts and notify financial institutions,  insurance co.panies, booked event tickets etc. etc!

Hacked email

 On Tuesday my email account was hacked. Currently I am unable to access it eventhough I changed the password as soon as I realised. I apologise to anyone who might have received an email supposedly from me. I have not emailed any of my blog followers so please delete any email sent in my name. I have reported the incident but it still has not been resolved.

British Art

 I visited the Tate Britain art gallery this week to see the excellent Turner and Constable exhibition, more about that in another post. I was there early and went to see a few of my favourite British paintings from the permanent collection at Tate Britain.

The familiar stick like figures of LS Lowry. I am from Stretford, Manchester and his work reminds me of places visited whilst a child. of my childhood in that area. When I was about 16, a school friend asked if I wanted to go with her to Lowry's house as she knew where he lived. I stupidly declined the offer. She did go and managed to speak to him and came away with a small sketch.

My interest in art started as a schoolchild in Manchester visiting galleries there, especially the Whitworth gallery which had a good collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings.

I only ever think of Elizabeth Frink as a sculptor so I was surprised to see her drawings in the gallery which was very naive of me as being a sculptor would also mean that you are probably a very good draughtsman as well.

I like Henry Moore's sculptures. Fortunately many are in outdoor public places where it is possible to touch them as I find them so tactile. 

This painting came to light in Series 7 (2018) of the BBC show: Fake or Fortune? when it was authenticated as a painting by Emma Soyer. It is now on loan to the Tate.

Hogarth's drawings/etchings told us much about London during the 17th and 18th centuries.

I come to the Tate to see the exhibitions but I must return to look at more of the paintings in the permanent collection here as there is so much to see in rooms that are rarely crowded.