Annie's first novel ...
Annie Fennymore is not only an award winning artist but she is also a writer of short stories and her first novel “Daisies are our silver” was published in 2002 and was entered for the Orange Prize. Annie writes under her pseudonym Annie MacLennan and her second novel a follow-up to her first novel will be available shortly (TBA).
Here you can see a preview of the book cover of “Daisies growing in Redbrick’.
To catch up on the continuing story of the dysfunctional Surridge family living in S.e. London during the late 1940’s – 1950’sAnnie’s first novel is available from Amazon.com.
Acknowledgements – Front cover from an illustration by John Morgan (see Facebook)
Dolphin Art & Print – Walton on the Naze
Robert Wong Photography – Holland on sea, Essex.
H.R.H. Princess Alexandra at the Millennium Gallery in Sunbury...
Here it is the moment I met H.R.H. Princess Alexandra at the Millennium Gallery in Sunbury. Her royal highness should have visited in October but she broke her arm and cancelled her engagements. I sent her one of my cards showing my second guide dog Amber together with a short note wishing her a full and speedy recovery. When she then arrives at the gallery on 30th January you can imagine my surprise and astonishment when she walks directly to me and greeted me with, “You are the lady who sent me the card aren’t you?” I was delighted. We chatted for a while, shook hands, she made a fuss of Mary in fact the photo shows her just taking her hand from Mary having just tickled her, a bobbed curtsey and she was on her way. A truly memorable and magical moment.
She asked me about my involvement with the gallery and about my forthcoming work for Tate Modern. All terribly exciting as was the number of people there who knew who I was and seen my work and exhibitions and the publicist from the Tate Modern was there as part of the Art Fund representatives and she knew about me from the Tate Modern Director who I met in September…Phew!
