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The Telegram
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Soren1915
, Sep 28 2005 12:23 PM
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Soren1915
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- Interests:I'm an Artist specialising in WW1 subjects, portraits of soldiers, WW1 book illustrations, etc etc<br /><br />I exhibit throughout the Ypres area in the major museums and lots of little ones dotted around Ypres.<br /> <br />I have a Masters degree in printmaking (Fine Art) attained at the age of 24 from Camberwell College of Arts, I have also previously exhibited at the Royal Academy<br /><br />Recently I have been working on Sapper Hackett VC drawings
Posted 28 September 2005 - 12:23 PM
The Telegeram, not done the subject well enough I feel, but here goes:
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gporta
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Posted 28 September 2005 - 12:41 PM
Soren,
I always check your drawings as I think that they are very good. I admire the way in which you capture the Great war in your work.
I usually manage to keep a distance from the subject... but this time couldn't help my eyes going moist...
Gloria
I always check your drawings as I think that they are very good. I admire the way in which you capture the Great war in your work.
I usually manage to keep a distance from the subject... but this time couldn't help my eyes going moist...
Gloria
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Soren1915
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Posted 28 September 2005 - 01:23 PM
A munitions worker weeping into the telegram...
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Posted 28 September 2005 - 01:23 PM
Soren,
every picture tells a story and again you have done just that.
What is going through her mind now? So many questions and not enough answers.
Mandy
every picture tells a story and again you have done just that.
What is going through her mind now? So many questions and not enough answers.
Mandy
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Soren1915
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Posted 28 September 2005 - 02:03 PM
A Pal once furnished me with the story and a picture of Billy Smith and his Fiancee who'd died a spinster at the age of 105 still clutching his picture, doing it from memory here, but imagining her looking at his picture, whilst holding his letters wondering about what might have been..
And then 90 years on the picture will be sold on e-bay for £4.99, by someone who could'nt give a......
And then 90 years on the picture will be sold on e-bay for £4.99, by someone who could'nt give a......
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Soren1915
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Posted 28 September 2005 - 05:05 PM
This image is based on my Gt Gt Grandfather, who lost his son, Patrick Thomas Staunton listed below:
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Posted 28 September 2005 - 05:30 PM
Soren,
you have captured the sadness in his eyes just like a camera would.
And he never did get over it did he?
Mandy
you have captured the sadness in his eyes just like a camera would.
And he never did get over it did he?
Mandy
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Soren1915
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- Interests:I'm an Artist specialising in WW1 subjects, portraits of soldiers, WW1 book illustrations, etc etc<br /><br />I exhibit throughout the Ypres area in the major museums and lots of little ones dotted around Ypres.<br /> <br />I have a Masters degree in printmaking (Fine Art) attained at the age of 24 from Camberwell College of Arts, I have also previously exhibited at the Royal Academy<br /><br />Recently I have been working on Sapper Hackett VC drawings
Posted 28 September 2005 - 05:31 PM
QUOTE (ypres1418 @ Sep 28 2005, 06:30 PM)
Soren,
you have captured the sadness in his eyes just like a camera would.
And he never did get over it did he?
Mandy
you have captured the sadness in his eyes just like a camera would.
And he never did get over it did he?
Mandy
Nope, a proud Irish man, very sad indeed,
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Christina Holstein
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Posted 28 September 2005 - 06:26 PM
Heart-rending pictures, Soren. As always, you capture the essence of things, particularly the one of your grandfather.
Christina
Christina
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Posted 29 September 2005 - 11:36 AM
Soren
I don't know how you do it ,but you do, every time.
The sheer emotion comes flooding out of those pictures, that's what you do you capture expressions simply and powerfully. Well done mate
I don't know how you do it ,but you do, every time.
The sheer emotion comes flooding out of those pictures, that's what you do you capture expressions simply and powerfully. Well done mate
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gporta
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Posted 29 September 2005 - 12:36 PM
QUOTE (Soren1915 @ Sep 28 2005, 04:03 PM)
(...) And then 90 years on the picture will be sold on e-bay for £4.99, by someone who could'nt give a......
There's a way to prevent people not give a .... As far as you teach them to care about this things, it is unlikely that they'll sell them up for nothing... In the worse of cases, at least there'll be someone who will be interested in the picture (and the story behind).
(anyway... who knows if ebay will still be around in 90 years: maybe future trade will be done by sophisticated tele-transportation means... or maybe we'll be back to trading arrow heads and amber beads and will communicate by smoke signals)
Gloria
