Grieving the Artist

One of the things to contend with when someone dies is what to keep and what not to. There is another level to it when most of the things they owned were things they made, or tools and materials to make things from. I’ve previously talked about how I reached my limit of being able…

Over the last month or so, I’ve taken down the structure that held all of my dad’s paintings in my flat and moved everything to my mum’s. This procedure was really important because it was taking up about 50% of the space here, because my flat is small. However, as my mum’s flat is bigger…

This week I am moving the majority of my dad’s paintings to my mum’s flat. The paintings were stacked over three levels of shelving; they didn’t really have much of an order to them when I stacked them. However, what I noticed was that there was a particular theme going through the top layer of…