Treehouse with blackbird

'Treehouse with blackbird' - digital pic & mix - George Roberts - March 2020

I am inside looking out

Today I was told to adjust my watch

And advance to British Summer Time

Perversely it snowed a little this morning

Snow to herald the coming of summer

So I watched the flakes fall silent

A blackbird outside in the garden

Sensed the arrival of spring

And sings as it seeks

Opportunities 

Today as I adjusted 

To my local time

A blackbird looked at me 

Whilst I pushed the buttons

On my Casio G-Shock watch

George Roberts

"So long and thanks for all the fish"

'Socially isolated' - digital silhouette - George Roberts March 2020

" Looking out the window, we saw that 'Ole Frank' had landed on the roof of a house opposite. It looked quite alone"

Carp and Water Lilies in Chalkwell

'Carp and Water Lilies' - Poster paint on card - Essex artist Tabby Roberts - March 2020

Côte des fromages

'Côte des fromages - Cheese on coast' - digital rinder - George Roberts March 2020

"Abondance semi hard, fragrant, raw-milk cheese from the Haute Savoie tasty and cliff like in its presentation"  - Fred Spleen art critic and cheese monger.

And then he quinced

"In the face of adversity his legs turned to jelly" - digital 'pic n mix' - George Roberts March 2020

Darby's Hard

"Darby's Hard" by kind permission of Mr James King - watercolour on paper circa 1980 - George Roberts, 

Darby's Hard - Gorleston- Norfolk in the 1980s was largely unused and a quiet riverside mooring.  
Occasionally somebody worked on a boat on the Hard which shelved gently into the water, but the amount of activity there was negligible compared with the years in the latter half of the 19th century and in the early 20th century when it was a hive of industry as the Darby family plied their trade there as shipwrights and boat repairers. In 1980 when I spent my lunch break painting 'en plein air' at Darby's Hard , an old redundant trawler was moored up and presented a 'still life' rendered in peeling paint, rotting timber and rusting steel plate.

CHARLES MAYES WIGG (1889-1969) DARBY'S HARD

I was clearly not the first watercolourist to have whipped out my easel at Darby's Hard!

Toot's Tree Corton

Toot's Tree Corton Suffolk - Anita Roberts - iphone camera - March 2020

A more rugged version of the one in Sorrento!

Lost soles

"As night falls a stealth submarine nets fish from British waters" digital imagery - George Roberts - March 2020

Family cow for sale 

Price  - 5 magic beans

 Will accept a worse offer from a 'toff'

Stick another fish up the pipe Number One!

Lost soles indeed

Tea Dance at the Tree Crematorium

'Tea Dance at the Tree Crematorium' - study for an etching George Roberts March 2020

Last night I dreamed in bed and Californian technicolor

A dream in which we dance across a dark and crumpled landscape

Out of step we pirouette under sky blue sky and bitter orange sun

A black bird watches our Greek Tragedy unfold as we slumber

We drink tea and cavort whilst a tree is consumed by fire
I watch the flames take hold as we dance together in our sleep.

George Roberts