There is another friend who wrote to me this morning and he has informed me that he is still busy preparing the draft for his book. I wish him well in his endevours.
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Yes Maria, I too wish Steve well, I can only imagine (as I have never written a book) that it must take a lot of patience and time to put all the bits together in a readable flowing form. I am really looking forward to reading it, I know he will do a good job of it.
Victoria, Judging by the little I have seen, it is promising to be fun and entertaining too. Yes, it must take a lot of work and perseverance. I do know people who do have a writing talent yet they have not written a single book in their entire lives, so I do admire Stephen in having persevered in seeing this project through in what at times seemed like a frustrating, annoying and thankless task. When his final draft hits the printing machine Peter and I will open a bottle of wine and toast his feat !
Maria Spilsbury Birchwood
started painting at an early age at the studio of the Spanish painter Don Valero Lecha and the muralist Violeta Bonilla, pupil to the great Mexican painter, Diego de Rivera. She received her first commission at the age of 13: a commission to paint a bullfight.When she was in her teens, she entered a competition and learned that she had won first prize. She was presented to the sponsor of the competition,who offered her a scholarship on behalf of the Dante Alligheri Society to study art in Rome.
Maria continued her painting studies in Madrid, Spain at the school of San Fernando under the tutelage of the foremost landscape painter Jose Sanchez Carralero. She moved to England where, in 1982, she married forensic genealogist Peter Birchwood.
Over the years, Maria has exhibited her work widely in different countries; at the Barbican Gallery in London, in California where she worked as a scenic artist on theatrical backdrops, Bedfordshire, and Wales, where she now lives. A recent commission was to paint the portrait of Liberal Member of Parliament Lembit Opik. The portrait is now hanging in the House of Commons.
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Yes Maria,
I too wish Steve well, I can only imagine (as I have never written a book) that it must take a lot of patience and time to put all the bits together in a readable flowing form.
I am really looking forward to reading it, I know he will do a good job of it.
Victoria,
Judging by the little I have seen, it is promising to be fun and entertaining too. Yes, it must take a lot of work and perseverance. I do know people who do have a writing talent yet they have not written a single book in their entire lives, so I do admire Stephen in having persevered in seeing this project through in what at times seemed like a frustrating, annoying and thankless task. When his final draft hits the printing machine Peter and I will open a bottle of wine and toast his feat !
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