Publishing my Edward Thomas

  Overtaken by Oxfordshire ArtWeeks, and the ET plaque, Cowley Road.

As Marc is exhibiting (though not selling) I am preoccupied with that right now. It means keeping the house tidy and welcoming for ten whole days, at least between 12 noon and 6 pm, and fitting in meals somehow. But we enjoy it - I think.
It's a squeeze fitting 21 paintings into our hallway and garden room though and a gallery would certainly be better.

Marc isn't selling as he is working towards an exhibition later in the year. Though if someone was very interested in a particular painting he would be happy to discuss it.

I have put 'Dawn, May Hill' along with some copies of A Conscious Englishman, and the review from the Times Literary Supplement, Oxford Times, Linda Newbery etc.

 

 

 

Open from 4th -12th May, 12-6, 8pm on Thursday. See Oxfordshire Artweeks Galleries section for details.

http://www.artweeks.org/festival/2013/marc-thompson-oas

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Edward Thomas news: I was yesterday at an Oxford Centre for Life Writing workshop with Carmen Bugan and Hermione Lee.

The Edward Thomas scholar, Lucy Newlyn, was there (editor of 'Oxford') and we talked again about how we must pursue the idea of a plaque on Edward's student home, 113 Cowley Road. Lucy told me that she had visited it with Edna and Michael Longley and that that they were very taken with the house.

113 Cowley Road, Oxford

 Lucy talked of a petition and I have contacted someone locally who I think may be able to help with the Housing Association (a2Dominion) which owns the house.

Design, Richard Morley, still waiting to carve it.

East Oxford is a very special place, the creative heart of Oxford, and  will benefit from the plaque to so important a writer as
Edward Thomas admirers will be pleased with the recognition. As Lucy said, Oxford is in one sense where his problems began, but it is more than that too.