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THE BIG REVEAL
23rd December 2021
ANON3 - THE BIG REVEAL ANON3 was a great success. It cheered everyone up because it was so good to see something new and fresh with a bit of excitement and unpredictability after all the lockdowns and isolation. When I arrived at 9am on the opening day there was a lovely chattering excited queue waiting expectantly. As each group of 12 was let in for their 5 minutes, the silence was palpable until a decision had been made and a red spot placed. Then it became relaxed and chatty until the 5 min...
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A FUN DAY
22nd November 2021
Saturday was a whirl. Big queues, very lively and lots of happy people. I really enjoyed hearing people debating and speculating about whose name might be on the back of the masterpieces. We have sold half of the 320 now and there are still some really good ones and some celebrity efforts left but I cant tell you which or it wouldnt be ANON would it. Enough! However I have misled you over opening times. ANON3 was open only this Sunday (yesterday) not the rest of the show, so here they are. ...
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STOP PRESS ON ANON3
19th November 2021
Dont miss tonight (friday) ITV @ 6.00 local news. You will see a few more of the mini masterpieces that launch tomorrow and some of the stories behing some of them. 320 were hung in the theatre mezzanine today and will be available to buy from 10am tomorrow at £50 each. Most are worth a lot more than that. They are gorgeous. whether you buy the work of a Royal Academician, A local genius (percy Kelly), a leading actor. television star or an artist down your street. It all helps the theatre t...
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THERES A REAL BUZZ ABOUT ANON3.
11th November 2021
MORE ABOUT ANON3 Good news. We have reached and surpassed our target of 300 artworks for our 3rd ANON fundraiser. We have added works by Sir Chris Bonington, Sir Ian McKellen, Martin Greenland, Julian Cooper, Marie Scott, Ceri Allen and many more. Thank you everyone for your generosity and efforts. I do enjoy opening the post at the theatre and I gasped when I opened a larger envelope postmarked St Ives in Cornwall. It contained an etching from 93 year old artist John Emanuel which is far too ...
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ANON 3. BUY A PIECE OF ORIGINAL ART FOR CHRISTMAS.
31st October 2021
In my 25 years at Castlegate House, I twice before put on a fund raising exhibition called ANON in which artists, actors and celebrities were given a piece of card, asked to paint or draw on it and sign it on the back. This was then placed in a cd case and mounted patchwork style on the wall and people were invited to come and purchase at a fixed price without knowing whose work it was – a bargain price in most cases – and all the proceeds went to Theatre by the Lake in Keswick. People still tal...
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KELLY IN COCKERMOUTH
31st August 2021
The last 2 months have been crazy. The ending of lockdown opened the floodgates and I now have 3 projects on the go plus an exciting possibility. I began another video but another coincidence popped up which I will add when it has happened. It will round it off very neatly I’ve just acquired 3 PK sketches of Cockermouth which I’ve loaded on to the web site www.percykelly.co.uk. 2 are based in the vicinity of All Saints church and the other in Gallowbarrow looking towards Wordsworth House wher...
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PERCY'S DAY OUT.
23rd July 2021
Sorry for the Radio silence and the lack of another new video. It is work in progress! There is just so much exciting stuff happening here at the moment it is difficult to keep all the balls in the air. I also have a list of at least 20 video stories to make but am saving them for darker days and/or the next lockdown whichever comes first. (sorry that’s my pessimism showing) In my last newsletter a few weeks ago I told you there were just 2 of the 10 x 10- Kelly charity charcoals left. The...
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A QUICK UPDATE ON THE 10 X 10
9th June 2021
I only saw 2 people in person this weekend (Sad isn't it?) but there was a massive response to the 10 little charcoals. My in-box soon filled up and 8 out of the 10 soon sold along with quite a few paintings and drawings from the web site and beyond. Sadly lots of you wanted the same ones so I took them in the order they dropped in the box. There are now just 2 left as you will see on www.percykelly.co.uk in works for sale ; number 1 is marked Pardshaw in Percy's handwriting so it was easy...
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TEN FOR TEN
3rd June 2021
TEN BY TEN Many years ago I bought a folder of 10 small 7 x 5 inch charcoals from Percy Kelly’s son Brian who found it in Pear Tree Cottage after his father’s death in 1993. Inspired by a Keswick man, Duncan Booth who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2010 aged 39 and who has bravely raised a large amount of money for research into this cruel incurable disease, I’ve decided to sell them for this good cause. (my partner Michael also has MS so I know what life changing havoc it causes)....
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SHEILA FELL'S CUMBERLAND
22nd April 2021
SMALL PLEASURES ... Hello everybody. Hope you’re all well, vaccinated and enjoying this glorious sunshine. We ventured into the wild yesterday - I never imagined B&Q in Penrith could be so exciting - I even put earrings in and a bit of lippy! How the world has changed – and our perception of it. The latest video is now available on YouTube. Click on https://youtu.be/q0cEHXCFNZI It’s titled SHEILA FELL’S CUMBERLAND and it is the story of a painting by Sheila Fell RA. Having made videos ...
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