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About the artist
(This text appears on the back of the greeting card)
JOHN TOOKEY
JOHN TOOKEY trained at the Sir John Cass School of Art and has
exhibited with the Royal Institute of Watercolourists, The Royal Oil
Insititute and the Pastel Society of which he is a member. In 1985 he
was commissioned by the publisher Gordon Fraser to produce a series of
paintings of East Anglia for a book East Anglia in Watercolours which
appeared in 1986 (and which is no longer in print). This view of Snape is painted from a vantage point on the bridge over the river Alde and shows the quay where barges with rust-brown sails used once to carry malt an barley between London and the Maltings. Beyond the tress and out of sight is the famous Snape maltings concert hall which was opened in 1967. The concert hall immediately became the heart of the Aldeburgh festival which Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears had started tenty years previously in the Jubilee Hall in nearby Aldeburgh. Today, music-lovers and festival-goers have replaced barley as the main cargo carried by the restored barge 'Ethel Ada' , which still plies the waters of the Alde between Aldeburgh and Snape.
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