SOME PICTURES FOR THE MURAL

 These chickens were inspired by Illustrator Alvin Lustig

OUR WATERSTONES MURAL, HURRAH!

Our mural is now on the wall going upstairs in Waterstones Hereford please come and look.
Sorry Rachael I inadvertantly cropped your fish, I am going to go and take some more pictures of the other boards soon.

MY MAPPA MUNDI INSPIRED MURAL CONTRIBUTION

My picture is now upstairs in Waterstones Hereford.

HEREFORD CATHEDRAL CEILING

This is one of the pictures, that I took in the cathedral after buying my permit.  It is  a beautiful ceiling, it is a pity the lights were on as it slightly spoils the photo.

MAPPA MUNDI

 These are the two photos of the replica of the Mappa Mundi, from the gift shop door, notice the quirky way that the houses are placed, on the edge of the river.  I borrowed this look, and the bird for our mural project, which will be on display in Waterstones book shop, Hereford, from tomorrow.

CHAINED LIBRARY HEREFORD CATHEDRAL

 I had quite an amusing time researching the Mappa mundi and the chained library, for our mural project. Initially I went in with a view to photographing them both, but was not allowed, before finding this out I was taking a few pics of a copy of the Mappa Mundi hanging on the souvenir shop door and I got accosted by a furious lady who lectured me on copyright and told me I could buy a permit if I wanted to take some photographs of the cathedral, so she sold me one, and I took some. I then decided that my real purpose had been to see and record the Mappa Mundi and the chained library, so I would pay some more money to see them, and I would draw them in situ. So money payed I went in to see the map, the only problem being , electric doors let you into a very small incredlbly dimly lit room, with the map quite high on the wall no seats or anything, so totally impossible to even do a quick sketch.  So onwards to the chained library, from the corridor outside I could hear two old ladies happily chatting and looked forward to looking at the books and doing a few sketches, so in I walked and they immediatly stopped talking and stood up on duty, nothing wrong with that, they seemed very pleased to see me, being their first visitor for some time it seemed, and they were extremly keen to answer any questions I might have about the library, I dredged up a couple of feeble ones they had no problem with and then proceeded to look at the books, trying to get in the spirit of doing a bit of drawing, so I stood looking at the little display at the front first, but the old ladies did not sit down and resume chatting, one went and stood the other side of the room and one stood right behind me, so close I could hear her breathing, at this stage i'm afraid I panicked I shot around that library at about 90 miles an hour giving the books a cursory nod and got out of there, not a sketch in sight. I came away from the cathedral having spent the whole afternoon there by this time, with not a lot to show for my trouble but an empty purse, BUT amongst the  photographs I took was the one of the Mappa Mundi hanging on the shop door , so I drew the bird below from it,the woman in the shop would have been beside herself. So all was not lost!