News from afar

Weather as yesterday. Perfectly warm, perfectly breezy. More perfectly happy windsurfers.

News from darkest northern California, where friend and artist Danielle Eubank has made the cover of the LA Daily News. Here are some of the pics they published.

The reason for the flurry of publicity is Danielle's inclusion as expedition artist on the Phoenicia Expedition, an attempt to sail a reconstruction of a 6th-century BC Phoenician sailing ship in a loop from Syria through the Suez Canal, sailing around Africa and then along the Mediterranean coast on the return leg to Syria. The voyage begins in August 2008.

It's been a while now since I sat with Danielle in a pub just off the Tottenham Court Road in London and she excitedly told me about her inclusion in her first London exhibition. Since then, her work has brought her exhibitions with several highly respected galleries and commissions from a number of distinguished patrons. She has studios in northern California and in London.

Here's her website and, most especially, the blog she is putting together to showcase her work on the expedition.

And for more information on the extraordinary voyage itself, here's the Expedition Website.

Bon voyage, Dani. Have a fantastic time!