While Katie hibernates, I have been busy with all sorts of different projects. Some are too new to announce. I always worry about jinxing things! But the main thing on my mind has been the two children's concerts, in Saffron Walden and Hatfield. Here are a couple of pictures of the Sinbad and Scheherazade concert at the latter. Here I am painting away to The Sea and Sinbad's Ship - the first movement of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. The pictures shift and change to the music. I guess it's another way of bringing art alive for children.
The proof pages (first practise printing) of Katie & the Starry Night are in, and everything is looking just fine, which I'm delighted about. Publication is scheduled for next summer.
Meanwhile, I am very excited to announce that I have been invited back to Edinburgh in early December to launch the Tesco Bank Art Competition for schools at the National Portrait Gallery of Scotland. The gallery is newly refurbished, after being closed for several years. It will be a spectacular sight to see, fully restored, and I'm incredibly honoured to have been asked to do this. Originally they asked Nicola Benedetti, but she was busy. I hope they know I can't play the violin!
Sinbad The Good..............Bravo!
ReplyDeletecant wait to hear more!! after settling my girls to bed with 3 Katie stories tonight, my eldest Amelie 4 says mummy what else does this james mayhew do? now i can tell her... thanks x
ReplyDeleteHi James,
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you remember me but I was teaching at a school in Letchworth and you came and spent the week with us. You worked with all classes and finished the week with a collaborative piece of artwork on four panels which included Surprise! (tiger), Van Gogh's sunflowers and Monets bridge. It was fabulous! I have now changed schools but would like to contact you about visiting children in my new school. How can I discuss it further with you?
Kind regards
Emma Hawkins
Hello Emma,
ReplyDeletei hope you check b ack and get this message. If you go to my "About me profile" on the right, you'll find an email link there...