On course but for how long

EP_logo_2_JPEG.jpgThe last full day of my European Parliament exhibition adventure.

I leave Watten and turn my car South South South via Paris with it’s nightmare traffic.Wat_IMG_1156_d.JPG Car_IMG_1158_d.JPG

Naturally as I enter the heaviest most complex traffic and roads my GPS goes down…

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Off course

EP_logo_2_JPEG.jpgKidnapped! When I thought I’d be heading for ‘home’ with my precious cargo from the European Parliament exhibition I find myself kidnapped, forced off course onto the Opal Coast, Cote Opale, Pas de Calais. Co_IMG_1119_d.JPG

My new and already firm friends Gilles and Brigitte Baffy have absolutely insisted I do not return today.

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Européen Parlement Exposition, Retour Interdit ~ return forbidden

EP_logo_2_JPEG.jpgMy host and children are looking a bit healthier so after taking the youngest to school in my English car I’m away from Amsterdam by 09.30 heading for another rendez – vous at the European Parliament Exhibition which Phil Ball, this time to close the exhibition.

I’m told we have been lucky, this has been the busiest week in the buildings this year and some 500 people have viewed this show, many taking booklets.

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European Parliament, Exposition a la Parlement Européen and adventures North

EP_logo_2_JPEG.jpgThe exhibition of The Art of Gordon Frickers a collection of marine paintings at the European Parliament continues today which is also my birthday.

My view is birthdays should be fun, my last few have not been – so how to make it so?

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TODAY ~ * Exhibition of The Art of Gordon Frickers * ~ at The European Parliament

EP_logo_2_JPEG.jpgHere we go to set up and attend the reception for “Life on the Ocean Wave“, THE long awaited exhibition at the European Parliament of The Art of Gordon Frickers.

You only exhibit at the European Parliament by invitation.

Invitations are rare. Few artists are invited.

This day I drive  to Brussels from my secure overnight parking at Watten provided by my good friends Gilles and Bridgitte Baffy. Gilles_et_Brigitte_IMG_0952.JPG

If you were so unfortunate as to miss this event there are lots of photos with this article; enjoy a first ever event, the largest collection of The Art of Gordon Frickers ever shown and a moment in art history, a great evening, wonderful recognition and an endorsement, an honour for all the artists who work in this discipline.

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