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Welcome to my website and blog. Here you will find details of my work and a blog which, so far, is still concerned with our exploits on the grain barge Glevum.

I’m afraid my blog stalled nearly a year ago as more and more paintings were commissioned. This year, I had partially cleared the painting backlog when, in the summer I suffered a series of strokes. They have affected my eyesight and I am now partially blind. I hope that my sight will eventually return to normal. Meanwhile, as I can’t paint, I am resuming the blog.

Thank you to everyone who has encourage me to continue with it, Part Twenty should appear in the next day or two.

 

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  1. Hi Vincent, I’m loving this, you really should write a book. Looking forward to seeing you both again in August and collecting another treasure. All the best, Cora.l

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  2. Very sorry to hear that you have been ill, glad that you are writing again.

    we realise how difficult it must be for you having visual problems after all the fine work you have done,

    Forget us and varnishing the painting until you really feel like doing it.

    Keep smiling Valerie and Ralph (volendam)

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  5. HI Vincent
    You may or may not remember me but my family and I visited with you and your lovely wife back in 2008-2009 app. We went out to eat at a restaurant nearby and you showed us a few different sights around the city. My name is Sam Traina. We kept in touch for a few years off and on and then you told me about your eyesight failing. IN 2017 I was diagnosed with a 3 mm Melanoma cancer in my left eye. It was treated with radiation in Philadelphia and that killed it. Its called a primary Melanoma casue it generally only occurs in one place. However theres always a chance it can show up somewhere else. Usually the liver if it does. SO far the MRI’s have been clear. The radiation caused damage to the optic nerve in that eye. It tool 2 years for it to begin to cause problems. so now there’s a big diff what I see between left and right eye. Colors are dull in left eye. On a value chart my right eye sees a #10 bright but my left eye sees it as a # 5 value. All colors experience the same ratio. Everything I see in left eye is almost half the size of what I see thru my right eye. Fortunately the right eye is dominant and has taken over in the brain so Im not having double vision and colors comes thru pretty much as they really are. Anyhow, Im still painting and doing well. Perspective is an issue as my left eye sees things further away than my right eye so when I attempt close up detail with a small brush its hard to tell exactly when the tip of the brush is gonna meet the canvas.. My work was in 5 galleries. 3 of them had to temporarily close down due to the Covid issue. Virtually little to no traffic at all. Ive also won a few prestigious awards.
    So youre not alone in this eye/vision junk. Take care–my website “samtraina.com” MY Blog “samtrainaart.blogspot.com”

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