Hoovering Up the Holy Carpet: An Artist’s Life and Travels: Volume 2: New Century Travels
This book takes us from the Millennium onwards with further artistic development and travel to more exciting places at home and across the world. Countries including the near continent, China, the Baltic, Canada and Alaska, India, Australia and New Zealand . I hope you enjoy accompanying me on the journey.
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Price £11.99 + p&p
ISBN: 978-1-9160106-4-2
Published: 2022
Book Type: Paperback 152 x 229 mm (270 pages)
Illustrations and images for Volume 2.
NORTHUMBERLAND
Rob. St Mary’s Island. Whitley Bay
Fishing nets and St Mary’s Island, Whitley Bay
With Joyce. Holding the Little Owl, Kielder Forest Bird of Prey Centre
CORNWALL
Joan Edwards in her studio, Ivy Cottage. Treen. Cornwall
Ivy cottage studio. Joan’s paintings
The Hat! 2001
CHINA 2001
Mount Hungshan
Schoolchildren, Yueyang
Raising the red lantern in the Heavenly Gardens of Suzhou
Against the current on the Yangtze
Running with current on the Yangtze
The tea shop, Nanjing
Connie and the toothpaste statue.
Connie and Lilian, terracotta warriors pit, Xian
Kite flying, Tiananmen Square.
With June at the Great Wall
THE BALTIC
Binz resort, Rugen Island
Prora, Nazi Resort. Rugen Island
Hitler’s balcony. Theatre Square, Klaipeda, Lithuania
Harbour market, Helsinki
Sibelius monument. Helsinki
Stockholm
The Vasa Museum, Stockholm
Approaching St Petersburg
In the smokehouse, Bornholm Island, Denmark
Last night on board with Carol, Ilse, Marilyn and Ursula
PRAGUE
Charles Bridge, Prague
AMALFI
Mount Vesuvius from Sorrento
Herculaneum
MUNICH
Lembach Haus Munich
The angels of Augsburg
UKRAINE
Kiev
Domes for sale, Kiev
Zaporozhian Cossacks,
Selling the aprons, Odessa
By the Odessa Steps
The bucket boy!
The veterans, Sevastopol
Kiev chess park
Farewell Ukraine
ALASKA
Mendenhall Glacier through the cabin porthole
Arriving at the glacier (the four seater!)
Connie in Alaska
Totems, Saxman, Alaska
Hoe Down entertainment, Kamloops
Tlingit potlach. Alaska
CANADA
Orca off the Gulf Islands, Vancouver
Birth Of Man sculpture, Vancouver
On the Rocky Mountaineer
The Badlands Passion Play, Alberta
Tyrrell Dinosaur Museum, Alberta Badlands Museum
After the Naming Ceremony, Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump, Alberta
Mounties display. Fort MacLoud
Bronco busting, Calgary Stampede.
At the Stampede, Calgary
Edmonton, Alberta
The Muttart Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Edmonton
With Ellen, Karcsi and Rene at the Columbian icefields.
Aaron, Cree artist. Alberta
First Nation boys, at the Pow Wow, Alberta
Dance Troupe leader , Hawrelak Park, Edmonton
Stoney Sioux elder. At the Pow Wow, Alberta
Drumming competition at the Enoch Pow Wow. Alberta
AUSTRALIA 2006
Sunset. Uluru
At Kata Tjuta
Connie at the School of the Air.
Greg playing a didgeridoo, Kuranda
Pamagirri dancers
Tanya and her husband, with her painting, Alice Springs
Martin. Alice Springs Reptile Centre
Holding the snake! Alice Springs Reptile Centre
’12’ Apostles! Great Ocean Road
Waiting for the helicopter ride, .Great Ocean Road
Connie with David and Helen. South Pacific art gallery in the Dandenongs, Victoria.
Immigration Museum, Melbourne
The clogs, Melbourne
The ‘installation’ Sydney Art Gallery
With Avenell, Sydney Harbour
Sydney Harbour cruise
Cockatoos and King Parrot, Avenell’s balcony
Wine tasting at Audrey Wilkinson’s
INDIA
The Imperial, Delhi
Snake charmer, Delhi
Sticks at the Monkey God Temple, Shimla
Shimla
Inside the Oberai, Shimla
Viceroy Lodge, Shimla
The Toy Train
Man on a train Chandigarh
On the road again with ChetRam-Ji
On the road
The Grace Hotel, McLeod Gang
Supper at the Grace Hotel
Kangra Fort, Himachal Pradesh
Stoneworkers, Kangra
Schoolboys, rural India
Monks, Dharamsala
Waiting for the Dalai Lama
The Golden Temple, Amritsar
Mani
Wearing Iris’s scarf – ‘for ‘ceremonial purpose!’, Amritsar
Families at the Golden Temple
Peeling the potatoes. Golden Temple complex, Amritsar
Sikhs at the Golden Temple.
Taking our seats! Beating the Retreat ceremony, Wagah
Indian Army beating the retreat on the Pakistan border, Wagah
Jallianwala Bagh Amritsar
Great India
NEW ZEALAND
Ceremonial dancing NZ
Poi poi balls. NZ.
The Kauri tree
A dummy in the Dunny!
Sheep pyramid at the Agrodome, Rotorua NZ.
Rotorua boilings
Camerons Laughing Gas Pool, Rotorua
AUSTRALIA AGAIN 2008
Crocodile, Yellow Water Wetlands
Yellow Water Wetlands. NT
Sunset. Mindil Beach, Darwin
Climbing rock face to get to Rock Art. Kakadu. NT.
Rock Art, Kakadu
EmDee at Mindil Beach, Darwin
Mindil Market
The famous Water Buffalo, Adelaide River township
Tiwi Art. Bathurst Island. South Pacific.
Tiwi children
Tiwi Art. Bathurst Island. South Pacific.
Showing me the ochre and chalk pigments. Tiwi Islands
Jilamara face painting. Tiwi Islands
Nobby’s Beach NSW
Final wine tasting at Audrey Wilkinson’s Vineyard. Hunter Valley.
The Indian Pacific
Cook
Connie in the Nullarbor desert
The Megamouth, Perth. WA.
Quokka. Rottnest Island
Perth from King’s Park
With Robert at the Perth Mint
