Artist's Camps revisited with Vivaldi

Vivaldi - 'Quattro Stagioni'  Janine Janson - Internationaal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzE-kVadtNw&list=RDzzE-kVadtNw&start_radio=1

'From My Camp'  Arthur Streeton 1896

Great music for a walk around our foreshores or on a  desert island.

Photo - Christopher Maait - 'From Curlew Camp' 2012

"I shout and laugh at my immense wealth, all free and without responsibility.  Who could steal this from me?  No-one"  Arthur Streeton

(The wonderful thing about these two images is that with about a century between them.) 

This foreshore walk has it all - spectacular views to the city, natural bushland, history: with places to linger and imagine how it was for the young men at the Artists' Camps.  

1890's Streeton and Roberts 'pulled through the lazy green water

and lunched in the shade and in the open air'

to join their fellow artists under canvas 

in camps set up by Hopkins and Ashton.

" 'til matrimony claimed their souls"

My walk took me here to the same spot this week.  

(More about these camps - P37 Through the Heads to Balmoral, Sydney and Mosman Meanders & foreshore flavours)

THROUGH THE HEADS to Balmoral, Sydney ‘delivered’!

Posted on March 7, 2016by Foreshore Flavour

Photo – Christopher Maait  – Paul Delprat referring to the chapter ‘Generations of Artists’ “this Golden thread of overlapping lives of informed and dedicated artistic scholarship” … referring to his great grandfather, Julian Ashton – Grand old man of Australian Art

The metaphor of ‘delivery’ was coined by Zena Shapter, Wonder woman, who cast herself in the role of the assisting midwife between the draft and the compiling of the final book. The last 6 months before meeting Zena could be likened to ‘Eternal Groundhog Day in the Wilderness’ as I struggled with the E-book technology etc.    Thanks to her expertise,  we finally made it.

There were many people to thank for their contributions, both artistically, with stories and insights and with their support.  And a special thanks now to John Young who is kindly helping with the next step of the journey ie getting the book out there.

It was a fun night at the Horizon Terrace at the RS Club,  introduced by Carolyn Corrigan, Mosman’s deputy mayor and followed by an amusing recount of childhood memories at Balmoral by David Boddam-Whetham.

Claire