Back to work

It’s been a week since I came back from beautiful, wintery Prague. I was doing a talk in Mestska Knihovna (City Library of Prague). It was a good change for me to do the talk in my first language. Children who came were great and we all had good fun.

I was born in Prague, so it was a great chance to meet up with my friends. I like to meet my friends in one of my favourite cafes in Prague “Montmartre”.As you can see, it is one of the places which hasn’t been yet discovered by tourists. Writers and artists used to meet up here in the last centre and I think some of them still do.

Some of the friends I met there were Dominika and Ludek Radl and their clever and well behaved children Eliot and Manon.Here are Manon and Eliot drawing. I was lucky enough to be presented by some of their pictures.Manon gave me a beautiful castle and Eliot gave me a picture with colourful birds and other creatures.

I went to see a great exhibition by Petr Nikl and a small exhibition of my favourite Czech artist Josef Lada. I love Josef Lada’s paintings. Especially his winter landscapes.  You can almost smell the snow.

I’m back now and I’m trying to get in to work. I’m sketching a new book and I’m looking forward to the moment when I’ll be able to start working on the final pictures.

Yes, there will be a mouse, mole and rabbit and one or two cherries.

I also have a little exhibition in King’s School in Worcester and I did a talk and workshop there last Saturday. 

I was working with children together with adults. It was a nice morning and I was so impressed with their final work.

The grandmother of Joseph did this masterpiece which she called “Where is the Elephant?”

My few days in the Czech Republic were nice, but it was -10C, so it’s good to be back in rainy England.  I’m off to Kent on Tuesday visiting St Mary’s Primary School in  Gillingham. I’m looking forward to it! Saying that I now remember that last time I went to Kent it was also raining and due to flooding it took me eight hours to get there.