Puzzling

I'm still tired after the weekend away and then plunging straight back into work, and all that entails. 

I found out today that Rob Collins, artist and former tutor at Stroud College of art, was buried yesterday. He was only in his early 70s. He'd caught shingles about a year ago, which affected him badly, and then he had a heart attack, and then he had another fatal one. He will be greatly missed. I used to be a life model, and he was one of the first tutors I worked with, in the ornate building in Lansdown that is now the Centre for Science and Art. The art college moved out of there in 1998. I think it was around '96 that I worked with Rob. Those collaborations between tutor and model are important because the students are often, if they're new, in a fever of anticipation or nervousness or gigglishness because there's a nude and disgusting  older person on a stage in front of them. The tutor and the model have to create more Zen atmosphere between them, to facilitate the flow of wor and creativity.

Farewell, Rob..