| On this page we will be glad to display your
original drawings and doodles - giving preference to those which, in some
way, relate to the sea, the shore, ships, boats and people connected to
those things but, where we consider that a submitted work is too good to
resist, although having nothing to do with our usual subjects, we'll want
to show your talents off to our readers anyway! You can scan works, or
take digital photographs - scanning tends to be best if the work will fit
into the scanner - and E-mail them to us with details about yourself and
the work - the materials used, when the work was completed and any
background information you care to add. If that, or any of your other
works are for sale, you can have a free advertisement in the Classifieds
section to let the world know and if it is presented on this page we will
put links both ways on the appropriate Classified section page and this
one.
To start the page off, we thought you might be as fascinated as we
were by the life and work of 'Paulo', who lives in one corner of an empty
warehouse in front of the jetty in Nettles Bay on St.Martin in the French
West Indies, overlooking Simpson Bay in Sint Maarten, on the Netherlands
Antilles side of the island across the Lagoon. When we met him in July
2000, he agreed to let us come back to photograph him and his work but,
when we arrived, he was nowhere to be seen, having covered all but one of
his, generally large, intricate and fascinating 'cartoons with a message'
with plastic in case rain entered the premises and disappeared.
Thus we
have no photograph of the man himself but, since his home and studio are
open to the world at all times and he had agreed to the pictures, we bring
you a mere glimpse into the life of an extraordinary and talented
eccentric Frenchman - 'Paulo' and a look at one of the smallest works he
has done lately. Most of his finished pictures measure about 3' by
2'6". He has just started having copies printed for sale. We didn't
like to handle the drawing in his absence, hence the stones at the
edges... and the fact that we only photographed one - to view the
full-sized pictures, simply click on the mini-photos...
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