After a little walk and a filling lunch at a local diner, Ruth, John, Danica and I went to see a nearby curiosity … a large bronze sculpture that sits incongruously on palettes, on a small front yard. It’s been there for years and our old friend Ben Viccari wrote it up before he died.
The purposes of the Colombo visit were many. The walk and the always-stimulating conversation at lunch, of course. The sculpture viewing. But we also returned to our place so that I could be briefed on needs for upcoming cover designs. Ruth and John are about to publish more books and we collaborate on covers.
Importantly, it was the day for the Colombos to chose their “Helen Andersen” from a number of originals I framed for presentation. They zeroed in on an abstract, landscape-ispired piece done in very British Colombian colours. Very rain forest.
As it happened their choice was one of two pieces that I had framed as a pair, and we all agreed that they should stay together. Helen would have been delighted to know that two of her pieces would be hanging on the distinguished walls of the Colombo home. You would be astonished to know how many Canadian and international notables have visited that house, but the list is far too long to post here. Another book, John?