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My dear Friends

I moved onto other artists just last weekend. Again, they were very different. The first one, Robin, is a photographer, taking interesting and unusual photos of the beach at Aldeburgh where Benjamin Brittten wrote much of his music and where there is a performing arts centre to this day. Robin specialises in interior landscapes, whereas her daughter, Isabel, paints large canvasses of sweeping colour, in dynamic blues, reds and yellows. There was one wonderful painting, almost like Cezanne, of a large bowl of yellow flowers.

Round the corner was Sue, a Jewish sculptor of some dimension. She was taught by Ester Joseph, whose amazing work I also went to see and which I will describe in a moment. Both sculptresses express the human condition on their work. Sue depicts some sorrow; a wonderful sculpture of figures like Adam and Eve(although she says they are not) being cast out of something like Paradise. A woman protecting her brood under a sort of canopy, and many more. I came away feeling very moved by her exhibits.

Going back to Esther; her figures are cast in stone and are lifesize. Sue was taught by Esther, although her figures are much smalller. Esther's figures really depict the fragility of our human condition, by the expression of the faces particularly. She uses different types of stone, some pink and I was amazed that such a slight figure as Ester could wield and mould such enormous figures.

Last but not least I visited the studio of Anna from Italy, near Lombardy. She does silk painting and they are really are exquisite, landscapes in the oriental style in a fine brush. I used my inner eye to gaze into the paintings and I didn't go unrewarded.

What a feast!
Shalom from Sister Gila