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"Peter and Gill graduated in Graphics in 1976, Peter Ffoulkes was the
boyfriend and later husband of Pam. I have lost touch with Gill who was my best
friend at one time. I believe Gill lives in Bath, married a doctor and was
commuting to London to work in graphic design for British Rail (prior to privatisation). *Are you out there Gill? I am also looking for Piers Carey, he had short dark hair, glasses, a short beard and played the
mandolin. I was never sure if he was actually a student or just a
local (his parents and sister lived about three miles away) but he was always
part of the gang. I used to see Ann Bradford a lot who was a ceramics student,
the last I heard of her was that she was living Wadenbridge in Cornwall but this
was many years ago." |
*Gill
Fry has made contact with the site and her entry can be read in the
archived Guestbook 2002
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Caroline
Hogan & Debbie Pengelly (on
holiday summer of 1975)
photo
supplied by Pat Dunn |
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| Michael Downs did painting from 1972-76. |
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I
am now living and working in Sydney, Australia and Head of Postgrad at the
National Art School there. The site has prompted me to dig out some old photos. The first I came across was
this taken at Beechfield in the summer of 1973(?)... |
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The real person left is Phillip Woolley, |
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the other real figure
on the right, Michael Downs,
is me. |
Gillian
Bushnell (Jilly) is the
painted girl far left - (incorrect) |
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the extreme right is Charles
'Chubby'
Watson. |
centre stage is
Jill (who married Mike Smith
the mandolin and guitar playing ceramicist of the same
era).
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The painting was done by the very enigmatic and interesting
Paul Chambers - (incorrect)
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Thanks to Andrew Bailey & Richard Nye
for solving this mystery.
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...and
so it has transpired
from an email in January 2015
that Ruth
Rickards (now Britton)
painted this picture and not Paul Chambers.
Thanks to Malcolm Law
who has sent in the photo & updated info.
click for a larger version |
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l-r Anne
Thornhill, Deborah Treliving,
Jill, Keith
Owen, Charles Watson |
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"Deborah Treliving standing next to me now confirms she was in the painting and the
names of Anne and Keith. So I'm afraid Andrew and Richard are mistaken in their solution to the mystery - it was over 40 years ago!"
- Ruth Britton |
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and more will follow
another day...
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Paul
Chambers died May 2012 in the US
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