On a Slow Boat to Piraeus
Pig Ear Press, which produced my last book "Glenn Gould Never Came to Nice" has now started work in earnest on my next book. 40-plus poems printed Letterpress using handset type in the workshop of Pete Lally on the island of Gozo, Malta. His progress can be followed here:
http://www.pigearpress.co.uk/diary-of-a-book.html
"On a Slow Boat to Piraeus" will include poems about jazz and donkeys and life on a small Greek island, all seen through the eyes of a retired beancounter...
Miller & Katsimbalis
A mailart stampsheet with my painting of Henry Miller and the poet Katsimbalis visiting the painter Ghikas on Hydra in 1939.
I made this painting after reading Henry Miller's wonderful book "The Colossus of Maroussi", where he tells about this visit to Greece. Henry Miller's best book, I think.
This stampsheet was sent out to my mailart circles but I have a few left.
Sun Ra
Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount (1914 – 1993), jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet.
Watercolor, pen,
Size of painting 18x25 cm (7x10")
Hydra abstract
Just back from two really wonderful weeks on a small Greek island, took a break from my jazz portraits and made some abstracts, I don't have a title for this and maybe the 8 is actually an eternity sign.
"Standing Eternity"
Watercolor, ink, pen, collage, mixed media
27x35 cm (11x14")
Pharoah Sanders
Here's a new watercolor painting of Pharoah Sanders, the great tenor saxophonist from Little Rock, Arkansas. Saxophonist Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world".
Size of painting 18x25 cm (7x10").
