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Thursday, 22nd July 2004
Wild West Yorkshire nature diary

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I'm designing my latest Sushi Sketchbook: these slips of paper laid out on my desk represent double-page spreads. Considering that the whole point of Sushi is that it's raw and freshly prepapred, I seem to be spending ages filleting and rearranging my drawings.

Bacton BeachEach postage stamp-sized picture, glued or stapled to the slips, is a thumbnail image of a sketch that I've scanned from my Norfolk sketchbooks.

Someday I'll come back with a sketchbook that I'll turn into a Sushi title without any editing or rearranging but I feel that to tell the story of Norfolk properly I need to group the drawings according to the places I visited: the cottage garden, the coast and the village church of All Saints. In the writing - not that there's much space for writing amongst all those drawings - I need to evoke some of what I felt when I was drawing in this quiet corner of rural Norfolk, at the edge of the world, as it seemed to me.

The serpents and snakes, fossils and fish that I drew, set against a backdrop of quiet woodland and coast, are what made me decide to call this booklet Saints and Serpents. Next Page

Richard Bell, richard@willowisland.co.uk

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