In the Frame

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My thanks to two professional artists MICHAEL JEFFERY of Australia and JOSEF JIRA of Czechoslovakia who generously showed me their studios, their methods, their minds and their lives.

Also to the many art galleries whose experts gave me information and help, and particularly to Peter Johnson of Oscar and Peter Johnson, London, SW1, and to the Stud and Stable gallery, Ascot.

I stood on the outside of disaster, looking in.

There were three police cars outside my cousin’s house, and an ambulance with its blue turret light revolving ominously, and people bustling in seriously through his open front door. The chill wind of early autumn blew dead brown leaves sadly on to the driveway, and harsh scurrying clouds threatened worse to come. Six o’clock, Friday evening, Shropshire, England.

Intermittent bright white flashes from the windows spoke of photography in progress within. I slid my satchel from my shoulder and dumped both it and my suitcase on the grass verge, and with justifiable foreboding completed my journey to the house.

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