Memories lost

part of the old Sunderland art studio had been demolished, the part where I had painted my first painting .... well I am not to cut up about my first job at the pub, the "Porterfeild" which got renamed as Duffy's and then demolished into a car park where I had my first job , but was also the first place where my Cousin held my first welcoming birthday in the UK.  It is depressing to find that the places I had been to and their history removed... as if they had been censored.

This is what the old art studio looked like, which was 3/4s the size of the new building, and was nicknamed the Tardis, because it was bigger on the inside, that what it appears on the outside and was painted blue, and there was a random life sized darlek inside you were lucky if you found it .. but the obvious find was the hanging shark, and the huge wooden bear sculpture, and then the Michele Jackson sculpture/mannequin :p . I worked on the second story , and my space was the centered window.

My first painting, was the face portrait of Anananiah.

And now....