PHOTOS
Dad and Mario
Mario Messina came from Italy in 1975 as an Italian assistant at Inverness Royal Academy.
Their friendship blossomed and continued when Mario returned to Italy. They corresponded by exchanging cassette tapes. Mario had luckily retained the tapes and has kindly digitally enhanced and converted them to mp3's.I am so fortunate to be able to listen to my dad's voice from as far back as 40 years ago..... Thanks Mario.
Their friendship blossomed and continued when Mario returned to Italy. They corresponded by exchanging cassette tapes. Mario had luckily retained the tapes and has kindly digitally enhanced and converted them to mp3's.I am so fortunate to be able to listen to my dad's voice from as far back as 40 years ago..... Thanks Mario.
Dad with his painting of Cullen
which hung in our livingroom in Balloch, Inverness until it was sold/gifted.......I often wonder who owns it now.........being of Cullen, it was one of my favourites.
UPDATE!! (June'14)…pleased to discover this painting is much appreciated and admired in a Cullen home! (see it in COASTAL SCENES)
UPDATE!! (June'14)…pleased to discover this painting is much appreciated and admired in a Cullen home! (see it in COASTAL SCENES)
This was dad’s easel.....please read the story!
A friend of my father recently visited the new “Inverness Creative Academy” which is located in the original Inverness Royal Academy building at Midmills.
He was talking to one of the artists there and it emerged that the easel the artist was using once belonged to my father!
After my father’s death in 1984, my mother sold some of his art equipment and the easel was bought by this local artist and art teacher who lived in the same village.
I was so pleased when my father’s friend contacted me recently to share his discovery,
I was invited to come and see the easel and was delighted to find it was now in a good home and still being used....... and unbelievably in the actual classroom which my father taught art for many years.
As 16th May 1984 is 35 years ago today.....I am uploading the photo of the easel to mark the day I lost such a talented dad.
He was talking to one of the artists there and it emerged that the easel the artist was using once belonged to my father!
After my father’s death in 1984, my mother sold some of his art equipment and the easel was bought by this local artist and art teacher who lived in the same village.
I was so pleased when my father’s friend contacted me recently to share his discovery,
I was invited to come and see the easel and was delighted to find it was now in a good home and still being used....... and unbelievably in the actual classroom which my father taught art for many years.
As 16th May 1984 is 35 years ago today.....I am uploading the photo of the easel to mark the day I lost such a talented dad.
My father enjoyed taking cine film. One of his films, "The Golden Fringe" (a film about The East Neuk of Fife in days gone by) has been uploaded by the Scottish Fisheries Museum. If you would like to view it, please go to my "Links" button.
Does anyone have photos or information about a mural by my dad which was in a restaurant/pub in St Andrews around the 1960's?
For more details please see MURALS/MOSAICS (1)