We arrived in Grahamstown after dark, having travelled 1000+ kms; leaving home at 05:00, our car and trailer heavily loaded with sculptures, tool kits and gear for the two week duration of the National Arts festival. We had allowed ourselves two days in which to set up the exhibition before the official opening on 28 June 2012. This would ensure that we locate a hardware store, printer and stationer in case of an emergency. Since it was our first experience of exhibiting at an arts festival, we didn't really know what to expect, but with all the bravado of the uninformed, we believed we would be able to handle any situation. Gracious Grahamstown We didn't then know that we would also need a haberdashery when Eylene (my daughter and fellow artist) ran out of buttons and pins or a milliner's shop to buy metres and metres of black fabric to create makeshift covers for the plinths on loan that were a most unbecoming shade of brown. Staying with our dear friend Doreen, a ...
The Restory is a Retreat Centre nestled against Tafelkop, a singular mountain head near Wakkerstroom, South Africa. Here we live a simple life as contemplatives. It is a place of re-connection: with ourselves, people, Nature, Silence and Creativity. Our retreats are aimed at this. Our conversations, writing and art centre around the univocity of life. We need a place that reminds us that we are all one. The Restory hopes to be such a place and space.