Here in Mallorca finally!
And what a wonderful place it is! It was tricky for me to come here with all my dreams and expectations loaded onto one as-yet unknown island. The boat trip was a bit awkward, and I didnt know what to expect of the place or of myself. Im now adjusting to being very impressionable and in awe at life and beauty here. Im totally overwhelmed.
Lin has welcomed me into her home and life and I stay in Villa of my own at the edge of the property, down the hill from the main house, the walk which I usually remember the most after dinner and wine, is scented with the wild rosemary that grows along side the gravel path. A big moon illuminating. The island is wonderfully mediteranean, with worn sandstone homes, dry iron-filled earth, rocky and red, with olive and fig groves, and stone fences winding around plots. The hills are high and rocky and fortresses perch in them, eagles circle them.
We have long dinners on large sandstone terraces, with visitors from the world. We spend the days swimming, sunning and eating, walking groves and hillsides, sketching, chatting. The home is beautifully designed, and I soak it up while it lasts. Theres really something to be said for good design, I have never spent time in a space so considered. There are intermident spaces set aside exclusively it seems for a moment of rest and thought, like Jorn was a meditative and easy man. A reader, a thinker. Spaces for reading are abundant, sun and shade lounges, little forest stools, benches with a unique view, Sketch points, contemplative angles, and practical use of space, a generous use of light, a fine balance of modern, minimal and practical, with traditional, homely and social space. Lin's eye for design and all her ceramic and glass works adorn the place along with a fantastic selection of artworks and books. Im in a heaven of mind and space, and imagery, and impression. A balance of Danish design and Mallorcan lifestyle and stone. Villagers turn up with fish and olives and eggs. Locals come and help relocate pots and paintings from studio to stroage space with their red-brown skin and ponytails. Its a serious and proffessional working studio, and I soak it all up as much as I can, without getting in the way and trying to eb as usefull as possible.
Must get back to the house to make lunch, Rx
FYI - Here is a video of Hughes, Lin's interesting husband;
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