Richard Scott : 8th May 2022

OK,

I have decided to write a weekly blog about myself, both personal and my art career. This is my first blog. Please excuse me for being all over the place but I have so much to tell you and sometimes I will waffle on and some weeks I will be short and blunt but as the weeks go on I am sure there will be a structure that forms. Let’s just get one thing straight from the beginning: you are going to have to excuse my spelling and grammar as I am dyslexic.

This week I had to renew my British drivers license so I went online and did it and renewed it in 10 minutes and it will be delivered in 10 days. I have been waiting more than 3 months for my South African drivers license.

On Tuesday I finished off the final part of the Vespa Magnetic Sculpture. I got Water Jet to etch my r i c h a r d signature into the lower panel and sent it off to get sprayed with Brandon. Pics to follow on Instagram shortly.

I received an order from Walkerbay Gallery in Hermanus for a number of prints and dinky works. They were completed and shipped.

I got a commission piece for a 100 x 100cm candy work. I asked my son Richie to 3D print me a r i c h a r d stamp and he did but I forgot to ask him to reverse print my name r i c h a r d so when i stamped the painting, it came out as d r a h c i r my name speLlt backwards. It’s ok I love it. From now on I will use the reverse stamp. Those of you that know will remember that the first ever r i c h a r d stamp was the same.

On Wednesday I sent some Tyvek paper samples to Robin Sprong. Robin does my wallpaper. The Tyvek paper samples are for the new Richard Scott Wallets I want to launch. Pics to follow.

I met with my lawyers last week. I have a dispute with a wall and my neighbor. Ill elaborate on this as I go. I never thought I would be a victim of the shitty law system and rules.

If you don’t already know, I am six weeks into a UCT (University of Cape Town) course on Social media. Its quite hectic and I feel so cool at 53 years old and going back to school. I got 46% for my introduction module and I got such a fright that I have subsequently got 100% for my first 4 modules and I must tell you: social media is going in the wrong direction. I’ll also elaborate on this next week or as I go along.

On Thursday I popped into the Desmond Tutu Foundation as they want me to hang up the Art I did with the Arch for the up and coming Elders Annual meeting on and around the 23rd May. I need to to scramble a bit and collect the paintings from various locations and make it happen.

Friday, Joanne came home with some yummy duck spring rolls and a nice bottle of Haute Cabre Pinot Noir and we watched movies and fell asleep on the couch – it was sooo good.

Saturday, I met with the famous mountain biker Erik Kleinhans who runs CANYON cycles in South Africa. He’s crazy enough to open up a restaurant in Stellenbosch and wants me to showcase my art on the walls. More news to follow. We took Joanne’s son Dean to his Stellenbosch University open day. He starts next year. Joanne and I had some time to kill so we popped in to visit Erica and Spook in Somerset West. Erica and I were supposed to do the Absa Cape Epic in 2012 and she subsequently became my cycle coach. Erica and her husband Spook became good friends of mine and I eventually completed an Epic with Spook in 2017. It was really great to see Erica again.

Afterwards we went to Bertus Basson’s Burger joint De Vrije and had the best burger in the world and a yum yum soft serve ice cream cone.

Today Joanne and I are doing stuff around the house and cooking banana bread and are having a yummy fillet braai. I just finished my assignment for module 6 of my UCT social media course and came up with this idea to blog.

Today Joanne and I searched for some properties as we want to live closer to Cape Town.

So now I sign off and catch you next week.

Bare with me…

Richard