Pure escapism painting, photography, singing and puppets.

Recently life has been difficult all round, so sometimes just gather things together to cheer myself along.

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I love taking pictures, but painting is soothing and a good kitchen table activity! Paint and paper is inexpensive so why not give it a go? I don’t usually copy established artists but did today. But also love this sketch of chairs I did a few years ago in Shakespeare and Company in Paris. I’ve just rescued the card collage that was falling apart. It represents larger work created in the past.

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‘Patience is a virtue’ my old granny used to say. So if you nurture orchids year after year you have to put up with some dull old branches from time to time.

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A programme about Scotland reminded of our singing group in my tiny house in South London. Six single mums, one guy! We met weekly, found a teacher willing to teach us once a month for just £25! Eventually we sang in old peoples’ homes and finally hired a studio for a couple of hours! We sang ‘The Skye Boat Song.’

A few years later when we had all moved on I found myself in Scotland and filmed the battleground. Decided to use our soundtrack.

If you google – Ann Perrin and The skye boat song  the link on youtube pops up.

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For me much of the joy of life is my family, but also creativity, gardening, painting, even changing a room round ! But luckily my family’s livelihood was making marionettes. These puppets are my favourites. Lewis Carroll’s birthday this week. 

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Setting myself a timescale to complete my memoir. The starting point is our house in Highgate. It will be a mix of prose and poetry and may emerge as a Haibun.

Have started collating the marionette photos from 1946 shows to 1968  Variety, summer seasons, cabaret etc. but they will be included in an archive and a film.  I started the beginning of last year.

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