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Dear Victor,

  

I've just had an excited phone call from my daughter in Sydney to tell me that she was sending me a link to your website. And indeed, it is exciting because you mention my father, Trevor Hoskins giving you advice during one of the criticism evenings at the Newport Monmouthshire Arts Society. I too was a junior past member of the Society and my elder daughter Francesca also paints and draws.

 

What a wonderful story you have in words and paintings.

I'd love to come and see your works when I'm back in Newport.

I was born and brought up in Newport.

leaving for teacher training in London in '65 and working in Cornwall afterwards, then back in Newport before leaving for Hong Kong as a drama teacher in '77. I've been here ih Hong Kong ever since.

Mum is still alive and living in Stow Hill. She is 93 now. Dad, as you know sadly died far too young in 1980.

 

I think your style is wonderful and not just because the paintings take me straight back to Newport, as of course they do. You have a directness which is so exciting. To be honest I would love to own one of your works. Perhaps you can't bear to part with them though.

 

Very best wishes,

 

Brenda Scofield (nee Hoskins)

 

Thank you!

For by your response you encourage me now as your father once did in times past.

Brenda I trust you will not mind this page of your letter.

I believe to respond in words of our past memories of loved ones and places.

It is a Picture it is in itself no different from my work struggling as a painter to express using paint and brush to make images.

When one types or dips pen in ink or even today sends an email. It is the paint pen ink etc that becomes only the tool.

What counts are the senses of the human beings that genuine feeling of emotion to try to communicate to one another by pictures or writing.

Even now in contemporary times we stand and in wonderment we gaze at a long ago effort by some past human being carrying out a cave drawing.