Sunday 22 June 2014

Moving on...

It has been busy since my return from the Chartres pilgrimage (qv).  

Charlie has finished his A Levels, and we now await his results with a high level of interest: the bookies are not taking any bets on this one. There is only one university he wants to go to, so there is no insurance offer on his UCAS form; and they want AAB, which he should be able to get (but fell far short of at AS level...)

Bernie has just finished her Fine Art degree: we went to her degree show the other day to see her final pieces and were hugely impressed by her work and most of her peers'.  She had had her confidence knocked a bit in her second year by poor tutors, but had bounced back a bit in her final year. However, I was particularly pleased that her only piece on sale was quickly snapped up for £400, which will be a morale-booster. Her main piece is more of an installation: a 3-d walk-in watercolour landscape, including a large waterfall, a cliff and a fellside. So not very easy to sell and install elsewhere; but it is very impressive in her studio.

Meanwhile, Ant has just left to start her training for Teach First, which is her next step.  She has a few weeks' intensive training, then a break in which she gets married and goes on honeymoon, and then starts in a school next term.

And Dominique is waking up to the fact that next term, if Charlie gets into University, she will suddenly be the only child at home.

And Anna and I plod on...


4 comments:

umblepie said...

Congratulations to all your family, not forgetting Mum and Dad,for their fine achievements. These things don't happen without a great deal of hard work - well done! Also best wishes to your daughter for her wedding day.

Ben Trovato said...

umblepie: thanks. Please remember us all, especially Ant and her fiancé, in your prayers.

Patricius said...

Congratulations to all.
I am particularly intrigued by the idea of a "walk-in watercolour landscape". Sounds like it deserves a post of its own!

Ben Trovato said...

Thanks Patricius

The photos I took don't really do it justice; it was hard to find a time when it was't over-run with admiring crowds (hem hem).

However, I will see if anyone has any that give the overall impression, and if so, will post them.

But like many such things, you really had to be there...

Exhibition closes on the 25th so there's still time.