Richard Scott Blog: 29th January 2023

Last week I finished my daily diary Moleskin note book. It’s the book I write everything in every day from kids to family to banking and I use it to make notes in meetings. I have about 20+ of them from over the years with all my doodles and notes in. They will make a great addition to the Richard Scott Art Foundation Museum one day. I’ll dug them out of storage to take a few pictures for you.

My daily note books from the beginning 

Monday, I redid the Vinyl for the shop window and ticked off a long list of things to do this week. The main goal this week was to finish off the new Road Work signs that have arrived. The aim was to complete 20. I’ll let you know by Sunday if we did it.

Ashbey’s Gallery came to collect the artworks for their up and coming Auction. I will send you the link so you can get your hands on a unique Original Richard Scott piece.

While I was looking through my archived collection in the studio I came across these two pastel pieces I must have done about 20 years ago. I can still vaguely remember doing them.

I popped in to see the Doctor. I don’t have food poisoning, I have a tummy bug. So she put me on a 2 day strong Antibiotic. I feel better already. She told me to eat apples, but grate it first so it can go brown. When it turns brown it creates pectin which is good for tummy bugs. I vaguely remember it from when the kids were small but have long forgotten it.

I got stuck into finishing off the last of the “BREAK GLASS BOX” series.

Break the glass and use the stencil and can to make more art, or leave it as it is. 

Tuesday morning I had a meeting with Chelsy and Marius, the owners of Tamboerswinkel. They stock and sell my wine now. We are going to have a launch soon. Details to follow.

After that I popped into the shop to cover for Chad as he took a weeks leave. John sent me nice photos of the Hout Bay Gallery Richard Scott shrine.

John’s Richard Scott shrine 

Then I popped in to see Robin Sprong to work on a merchandise item. You gonna love it.

My lunch

Robin Showing us a previous Documentary he did

After Robin I went to FRAMED to touch up my Ignatius Mark pastel. It had a small mark on it and Ignatius guided me on fixing it. After that I went to ORMS to go sign 2 large 2m+ Candy My Girl prints that are going off to Hermanus and Johannesburg respectively.

Fixing my Ignatius Marx

Wednesday, I was back in the studio. I was having coffee on the deck at 6.30am. doing my daily banking and check list and I spotted the photo of Angelina and me in the front of my book.

My Diary

The rest of Wednesday was admin and payments as it was payday. So there were lots of emails going back and forth with the auditors.

Thursday, I was off to the shop again and to see Robin Sprong. He was shooting a HP video on some of the products he prints on. I was called in to do a quick talk and photo shoot. We took the opportunity to shoot my new product while interviewing. I also bumped into Jimmy Law as he was also part of the HP shoot with his framed canvases.

Meet Simba, he runs the show at Robin Sprong

In the masters kitchen 

After a quick bite we headed off to Diago. Joanne and I parked the car at the guest house and walked the streets of B0-Kaap to Diago’s. He cooked us a delicious lamb shank and red roman fish.

We finished off early and headed back to the guest house. It was quite an experience. We woke up early and had a breakfast meeting with Jacques. He is designing Joanne’s Wedding Dress. We treated him to breakfast at the guest house. It was very simple but nice. We had a good laugh with Jacques and also finalized the dress. After breakfast we checked out and headed to Ashbey’s Gallery to check in on a small red painting coming up for auction soon.

Then off to the shop to meet up with Selwyn to talk Women’s SA Golf Open at Steenberg in March. They want me to get involved again like last year. After that I popped in to see Shaun at Mano’s as I’m redoing the 4 pieces there on Tuesday morning. Photos to follow in next weeks blog. After Shaun, we had a light lunch with Daniel from Carpe Diem Lodge. He is commissioning me to do a piece for his lodge.

Meet Inga, she runs the show at Ashbey’s Gallery

After lunch we headed back home exhausted and we just collapsed on the couch and watched some series on Disney.

Saturday morning was potting around the house and golf driving range and the lunch with Joanne’s brother Paul in Cape Town to celebrate his 50th. He made us lamb roast like my mom and dad used to make it. He even carved it up with an electric carving knife. I didn’t know they still make those. It was a total flash back to like Betamax video days. We all had a great time and headed back home for an early night.

Sunday, we had our usual Sunday Lunch with all the kids. I tried to make Danilio’s Foccacia bread and I’m getting there. Even something so simple is hard to copy. Danilio is the master. Like art I suppose.

Until next week

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