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"The
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| "Local
Face", an
article taken from Wendover
News, April 1998 edition, by Jane Larkham, Editor |
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"Watch this space." |
Unwilling to conform
to the new trends in education that focused on profits instead of on student
welfare, Romeo retired in 1989 to concentrate on painting and being a full-time grandfather. He turned once again to the beaches of Lyme Regis and
Wales for inspiration. The paintings of the nineties seem to be more about
people and their relationships with the world. Romeo painted
fishing harbours with rows of boats and one solitary figure preparing nets
for his journey, and tattered winter beachfront cafes advertising fortune
tellers and cappuccino in tawdry lettering faded by brine and breeze.
Boarded beach huts, waves licking
the Cobb, a round sun watching. These paintings tell us that human
beings always return to nature, no matter what else changes. Time is
passing, everything has its season. "So what will you paint now Papa, in the Millennium, the next century?" He is President of the Royal Society of British Artists, a dream that must have seemed unattainable from the Quainton hills, and the war-torn mountains of the Abruzzi. But there is always something to aim for, always a target on the horizon. Watch this space. |
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