​The Pirate Papers

I felt like an adventure. In the spirit of Yeats's poem Why Should not Old Men be Mad, I gathered together a pirate crew, made up of heroes of my imagination; some real like Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, and some fictional such as Sir John Falstaff, and under my captain-ship, we sailed the seven seas. To everybodys surprise and most of all me, we ended up on Crete, and then we came all the way back again for this exhibition. In my imagination I kept my eye on the crew - six women and a dozen men - and wrote up some of their adventures. Sometimes the paintings and drawings inspired the writings, and sometimes the writings inspired the illustrations. I had never been on Facebook before - and somebody advised me that all people want to see are photos of cats - but I decided to regale my newfound FB friends with the adventures of Captain Jack and his crew. Most people I imagine were totally bewildered by these antics, and simply assumed that I had lost my marbles. But, you know, who cares ? And due to the experiment I discovered that I am a bloody good sailor of my imaginary ship, and that there is every good reason Why Old Men Should be Mad.

                                                                  You are invited to the opening on Saturday, November 10 2018  
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