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The Eureka Moment, by Clare Newton.

You know how it is... a life chapter finishes and there1s a horrible void.  An empty feeling that needs filling with another eureka moment of inspiration. 

Clare Newton, organising a river reconstruction

I'm like any other - I have my moments of flash-bang-wallop ideas. This particular one was born out of the feeling that London is loosing its heritage identity, and fast.  Georgians and Victorians fought hard to create extraordinary buildings lavishly crafted, right down to the uppermost servant's window in the back bedroom, and they're disappearing.

www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2008/09/11/yourstories_olympic_art_feature.shtml
The horrific fight that Spitalfields market endured to save itself against the mighty corporate giants, hungry for its land, gave way to non-heritage architecture. A sense of loss came over me.  Will my child ever look up and see exquisitely carved brick windows and Corinthian columns?  Or watch a sail-maker craft beautiful sails for Thames barges, not as a tourist attraction but as an original thriving business for living vessels?

I dug my heels in - deciding that I CAN do something about it!  Not politically, but practically by using my graphic creativity to capture all that I can and to create a picture story that conjures and describes the magic of our history in London.