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AN EVENING WITH PERCY – AND ME!
2nd May 2019
It was good to see so many of you at the Pencil Museum in Keswick on Saturday enjoying the chat, the letters, artefacts and etchings – oh and the humbugs. Thankfully - because it ran from 1 -5 - you didn’t all turn up at the same time. It was lovely to see all ages gathered around the tables in the museum drawing, painting, chatting and enjoying the experience. I’m just preparing my talk and choosing the images for next Wednesday evening when I will be talking about Kelly’s letters and picking...
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THE ART OF EXTREME LETTER WRITING
25th April 2019
Writing letters is a dying art. My meagre paper mail consists of invoices and circulars and an endless stream of fashion catalogues from outlets I’ve never heard of. I like the immediacy of e mails and would now find it hard to do without this miraculous facility but a real handwritten letter from a friend is always a thrill. Percy Kelly’s letters are beyond description and thousands of them have passed before my eyes; each one unique. My favourite is a bright A3 painting of a jar of stripy hum...
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EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY
11th April 2019
EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY Percy Kelly's letters are so attractive that many of them have survived almost 60 years. He wrote thousands of illustrated letters to many fortunate friends which included titled people, leaders of industry, actors, musicians, fellow students and friends. The letters to his step daughter Kim are particularly colourful and playful and must have been a great comfort to her when she was separated from her siblings at boarding school. Facsimiles of these and some of the ...
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A SPECIAL INVITATION FOR YOU.
1st April 2019
You are invited to the opening of a Percy Kelly celebration event at The Derwent Pencil Museum in Keswick on Saturday 27th April from 1pm – 5 pm. There may be humbugs! As you all probably know, I recently made a children's interactive book about Percy Kelly’s childhood in Workington. Have a Humbug was written in response to the many children who visited and enjoyed the Kelly retrospective exhibition and I’ve been visiting schools in the area encouraging children to draw ever since. In ev...
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ANOTHER PLACE
4th March 2019
Hurrah once again to the Keswick Film Club who have pulled off another wonderful film festival this weekend. Saturday night’s northern premier of the film Sometimes, Always, Never was the highlight for me. It played to a full house of 400 at Theatre by the lake. Written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and starring Bill Nighy and Jenny Agutter it has some familiar settings. What a treat to see the tide washing in over the Gormley sculptures on Crosby beach. It will be publicly released early this sum...
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PERCY'S PROGRESS
20th February 2019
There are only a few more days to enjoy A Legacy at Tullie House in Carlisle. It has been widely praised and visited. I dropped in yesterday with a friend and the staff were already mourning the end. But at least they now have the consolation of a good permanent Kelly collection of their own which will no doubt come out from time to time and possibly gain momentum as more people may decide to bequeath their collection. I will be at the gallery for a last look on Sunday from 1.00 – 3.00. Join me...
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FINAL CALL FOR A LEGACY
15th February 2019
It is now the final week of the Percy Kelly A Legacy exhibition at Tullie House which closes on Sunday 24th. I was there last Saturday meeting friends from Durham and friends from the south who are all fortunate to own Kelly paintings. They found it fascinating to see his creative process. The museum shop has also done well again with the etchings and porcelain mugs being very popular.* Our friends enjoyed the city of Carlisle too. I saw it through new eyes. We lunched at Amatos - a lovely S...
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WHAT PERCY DID NEXT
4th January 2019
At last we can put all jingle bells behind us and get on with life. I guess 2019 will be challenging in many different ways. In times of crisis the arts seem to grow in importance. There are some cracking exhibitions coming up nationally this year so stay with me and I will flag them up as they approach. You can also let me know about exhibitions you have enjoyed. Galleries offer a glorious retreat from the world outside – an escape from hard reality or an opportunity to come to terms with it. ...
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PEACE ON EARTH AND GOODWILL TO ALL MEN ( AND WOMEN AND CHILDREN).
20th December 2018
I am sending greetings to you all by e mail or via my regular newsletter on www.percykelly.co.uk. this year. The money I would have spent on Christmas cards has gone to Calderwood House in Egremont near Whitehaven which provides accommodation for the homeless and much more. It provides courses, friendship, jobs and above all - hope. It is alcohol and drug free which is often the cause or the result of homelessness. Most people have an e mail address these days. It’s a great way of keeping in ...
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INSIGHTS - THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
5th December 2018
As we hurtle towards the BIG event of the year (allegedly) and life becomes ever more frantic, I am pleased to be able to point you to a calmer, less demanding event in January when all the mad Fridays, daft Mondays and Christmas ad wars have hopefully stopped. Tullie House has asked me to do a talk and conducted tour of A LEGACY exhibition. So on Saturday 19th January at 2pm I will give an illustrated talk about the life, work and legacy of Percy Kelly in the lecture theatre (approx. 1 hour) f...
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