Hi everyone, Ella here.
Well on bank holiday Monday we had a very busy day. The sun was shining and so everyone came to Claydon House. Lucinda sold quite a lot of art work this week, so of course she was very happy.
The first Shiraz and Chianti are almost finished! Lucinda finished the moulds earlier this week, and they've both been taken out of their moulds this morning. Now Lucinda just has to wait for the clay to set a bit further before she can assemble the main face to it's background. Then she gets to do the fun bit by adding detail to the face.

Chi

Lucinda has been modeling faces since about 1994. I thought I would show you some of her bigger faces, so you can really see the detail she puts in. Two years ago Lucinda modeled the full head of a man called Chi. Her model of Chi currently resides in her gallery for all to see.

She also has a another full head and shoulders of a Flapper from the 1930's in America. Lucinda modeled this from nothing but an image in her head. We have named her Naomi.

Naomi

On Tuesday night we had a staff dinner, made by Eleanor and Laurence. Neither of them knew what the other was cooking until half an hour before we were supposed to meet at Lucinda's, but it all came perfectly together in the end and it was a lovely evening which ended up with us all eating too much chocolate.

Lucinda is currently making more fragments as I type, so we thought this week we would explain the Fragments collection to you. Lucinda got the inspiration for her fragments in 2004 when she was thinking about how she could develop her models of faces further. She says she was half asleep, half meditating when a vision of a face on a spiral appeared to her. And every year she seems to develop these even further. If you want to see more of Lucinda's fragments take a look at her Flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucindabrown/. And she does take orders.
Since this is a blog about Lucinda Brown, I thought I would include a joke Lucinda finds hilarious at the end of each post, so she has left her mark on this blog. So:

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal it's throat was very small.
The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. 
Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible. 
The little girl said, "When I get to Heaven I will ask Jonah."

The teacher asked, "What if Jonah went to hell?"
The little girl replied, "Then you ask him."