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i know the sadness

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Andrea Joseph’s Sketchblog

 I don’t know what it is about shops at the moment, but they seem to have unintentionally become a theme of my work.

 I ADORE this place; Patricia’s. It’s in New Mills, our ‘local’ town. I’ve been driving and walking past it in awe for some years. And, always, thinking ‘I have GOT TO draw it’. I was saying as much when I drove past, a couple of weeks ago, with some friends. They said ‘do it, do it now! Or otherwise you’ll drive past one day and it’ll be gone, boarded up, renovated’. I know it’s true. There was another old hair salon in another local town (the town where I drew the flower shop in the last post), very similar to this, called Cynthia’s. It had net curtains and polystyrene mannequins wearing bonnets and baskets full of dried flowers and Easter chicks (not, real ones). I almost came to a stop every time I drove past it  – which always pleased everyone else on the roads. Anyway, I drove past one day and it was gone. It had become a shiny new beauticians. I was sad. Very sad.

Anyway, yesterday, I finally stopped outside Patricia’s, parked up and got my pens out. There’s such a melancholy about these old places. As I was drawing I could hear the ghosts of yesteryear filling the place with chatter and gossip, as it would have been it’s heyday. Damn, I’d LOVE to have a look inside.

Since I posted the, above, sketch on Facebook I’ve been informed that “it  (Patricia’s) belonged to the beautiful Patricia Pott, she sadly died in the 80′s and her husband, who recently died left it exactly how it was. How romantic is that? Pat was a lifelong member of New Mills Amateur Operatic Society and a lovely lady“. That’s exactly how I’d imagined Patricia (thanks for confirming it Alison).

A couple of other things about the drawing. People often ask, when looking through my sketchbooks, “what do you do if you go wrong?” Well, two answers; collage or, as in this one, draw over it! You maybe be able to see the ghost of another drawing under Patricia’s. Somehow that felt fitting. Also, whilst making this drawing I decided that I was going to buy Patricia’s and keep the facade exactly how it is. Behind it I’d have a modern swanky studio and gallery, but up front nothing changes. ‘Cos we really need these old places on our High Streets.

Oh, OH! And, when I finished drawing I went to adjust my car seat and saw this piece of paper on the floor. I don’t remember writing it, but it is my writing. I am a sucker for a great quote and have to write them down where and whenever I hear one. I’m guessing this was something I heard on the radio. It was just one of those moments though. You know? Just one of those moments.

Plus, it was a ready made title for a blog post.


Source: http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2013/06/i-know-sadness.html


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    • Perfidia

      Andrea – Whilst I have no objection to your quaint little sketch of what is essentially a dilapidated shop frontal, I find some of your comments odd – you say you ‘ADORE this place’ and want to buy it and keep the front unaltered. You cannot be serious!

      I was frankly surprised by some of the comments blogged by 2 people who’ve looked at your item and had the audacity to suggest that Patricia would have been ‘thrilled’ or flattered by it. Well, I don’t think so. She possessed a completely modern outlook and would have liked to view the premises redeveloped rather than being allowed to deteriorate.

      Perhaps you may be interested to know what she was really like? She was intelligent and artistic (yes, she too could sketch and could have been an artist if she’d wished), she was hardworking and successful, had a wide range of interests (including operatics and dance); she was generous and kind as well as being a beautiful woman. The shop that you have drawn ceased to operate as a business in the mid 1980s because Patricia had opened a stylish dress shop on Union Road and also transferred the hairdressing business to other premises on Market Street. Her intention had been to sell the original shop premises and buy a house. Tragically she became very ill before her plan could materialise and died in 1991. You are right in saying that her husband didn’t wish to change anything. The inability or unwillingness to move on was so sad and certainly not what Patricia (or other family members) would have wanted. There – you have the real story.

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