This week, Serena talks about swinging through the trees at Storms River for a tree top canopy adventure. She sees a wild tortoise and is impressed by a visit to the Big Karoo.
There she stops to tell us about some of the things that influence a painter to choose one scene from another and how she sets about recording scenes for the final painting. Did somebody say Penguin?
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In the third of his articles about running an open house, Bill Black tackles the thorny subject of what to do when artists or home owners start behaving in a way you hadn't expected. It does happen and can be awkward for artist and home owner when someone exhibiting or hosting starts to succumb to the stress of it all. Tempers fray and the whole thing can be quite difficult - so what should you do?
Fear not, that's what and read the sage advice of our man Bill as he guides you through the forests of angst and despair with the soothing balm of his good advice. Well, he preferred that rather strained forest-and-balm stuff to the perfectly good agony aunt metaphor we'd had lined up for weeks, difficult so-and-so...
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