NOKUM

Our Canadian friends brought us some Allen Sapp cards. I've admired his work since I first visited his gallery in the area where my son and heir settled in the prairies. I have a book of his prints. His naïve paintings of life on the Plains Cree reserve are intimate, haunting and tender. Many of them have an unusual perspective, as though the daily life on the reserve is being viewed from above by a benevolent observer. 'Nokum' was his Grandmother, who brought him up when his mother died. She encouraged him to paint. At first he could only afford a few colours, so his early paintings were mainly in white, brown and black.

If you are really nice to me, I might send you one of the cards.