This 3m large canvas is well on the way to completion.
November 11, 2008
Large Canvas
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November 2, 2008
This painting has been a bit of a struggle from the beginning, but I think I have finally made the break through I was looking for.
A feature article about the project was published in the Sunday TImes Magazine, page 19 in the STM entertainment section.
October 27, 2008
Back on track with the Jull Street painting. There’s still an enormous amount of work yet to be done, so its time to get out those double ended candles I think.
Jull Street
October 2, 2008
Studio changes
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The studio has been rearranged to take in the large Jull Street Map painting and both the traveling canvases. It’s time to rank things up and start integrating the work as a whole for the forthcoming exhibition – it’s easier to do this if all the work is together. Besides which, when I come into studio each day, it is almost impossible not to want to pick up a paintbrush and get stuck in.
The traveling canvases will remain in the studio from now on.
September 9, 2008
Revisiting the past
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As a child Kim Fletcher used to live next door to the old Roads Board building in Jull Street in the Police House, (his father was the town’s policeman). He had plenty of stories to tell about his childhood, by all accounts he was a bit of a scamp. He often played around the Roads Board yard, climbing the steam rollers and generally investigating the place when no one was around.
The Roads Board Building
I met with Kim later in the day and we went for a leisurely walk along Jull Street, as we walked he described the Armadale of his childhood. His descriptions brought buildings that were no longer there back to life, and gave a new perspective to those that remain.
September 4, 2008
Visitors Centre
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Ashley Wallis loves the visitors centre on Jull Street. When he says he loves it he isn’t kidding, he thinks its the best building in Armadale. When it came to building his own house he knew exactly what he wanted, and built a house just like it.
This building was orignally sited at the old Armadale railway station where it was used as a signal box.
September 1, 2008
Jull Street Historical Walk
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Today I joined in with the Jull Street Historical Walk led by Christen Bell from History House Museum. I had already planned to paint one of the buildings near the end of Jull Street so decided to take the transporter with me, finishing the walk a little short so I could paint the Visitors Centre.
Photograph by Kim Fletcher – member of The Armadale Historians
