Longmarket Street CapeTown Metal Print

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A scene in the old Malay quarter of Cape Town with its steep cobbled streets and people walking back from the mosque or shops. A mother walks up the hill towards us with her child close behind and further away we glimpse a group of Muslim men in their white robes and red fezes talking together. In the mid-distance are the modern offices of the city centre below.
Bright pink geraniums tumble from a box that stands on a low wall between the old houses which are surprisingly large inside and usually stretch back onto a courtyard often shared by other houses. A cat stretches and is ready to chase pigeons or mice. Deep shadows are cast across the sunlit street from the tall mosque and houses. Table Mountain's slopes are a faint blue on the horizon. Would be a nice reminder of a visit to Cape Town for somebody now overseas.

I paint in oil and watercolour and my sites are http://elinor-fletcher.artistwebsites.com and elinor-fletcher.pixels.com so contact me at elinor.ivy.fletcher@gmail.com or ring me on INT 027 021 762 9735 landline or 0729578101 cell. I was born in 1941 in the Orkney Islands north of Scotland where my father was stationed in the air force. My mother was an artist and I spent my childhood years in North Wales with my maternal grandmother until the war was over when I was reunited with my mother in London. In my twenties I studied painting at the Heatherley School in Pimlico, London, with Helen Wilson, Carl Cheek and David Ufland. I have had solo and mixed exhibitions since in London and Europe and Cape Town and my pictures are in...