Private View

my pictures on someone else's wall!

This evening it was the private view for the Open Exhibition at Letchworth Arts Centre, and my family were kind enough to come with me. It's such a novelty to see my work up on walls that don't belong to me. There were my two pictures of celebrities in cars up on the wall. A quick check: yes, they got my name right on the labels!
     There was a great prize of a week's summer school at Sir John Soane's Museum, which I would have loved to win. I was shortlisted, which made me very happy, even if I didn't actually win the prize. The gentleman who made the announcement did call me 'John Housham' (then corrected himself) -- my kids are now calling me John, to their delight. Obviously this is to be an ongoing curse. First Mavis, now John. But I was very thrilled to get a mention at all.