Comments on: Julian Rothenstein, Publisher

By: Silas Clifford-Smith

Silas Clifford-Smith — Fri, 22 May 2015 12:08:37 +0000

Greetings Julian and Anne

I am the youngerst son of Stanley Clifford-Smith and Joan Glass. My parents lived in Great Bardfield during the 1950s and exhibited with your mother and father in the summer exhibitions held there. I was a baby in Bardfield so I never knew you but I know you sometimes played with my older brothers Simon and Jonathan.

My reason for writing to you both is that I’m writing a biography of my parents which I hope to publish later this year. I was wondering if you could answer a couple of questions about your childhood memories?

1. What was your parents relationship with my parents (please be honest)?
2. Do you remember playing with Simon and and Jonathan? If so do you have any memories?
3. Do you have any memories of the Bardfield exhibitions and the other village artists.

I enjoyed looking at your site and art works and I hope you will be able to recall your childhood memories for me.

Please send my best wishes to your mother. I met her for the first time at my father’s exhibition at the Fry in 1998 and I liked her very much.

Best wishes

Silas Clifford-Smith

http://www.silasclifford-smith.com

By: Gerry King

Gerry King — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:33:21 +0000

I love your style of writing – sort of melding Edna Blyton and Julian McLaren-Ross.

By: Nicola Baird

Nicola Baird — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:12:54 +0000

Fascinating, what a wonderful man – such fabulous creativity. Nicola islingtonfacesblog.com

By: alisonsye

alisonsye — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 05:34:10 +0000

Another wonderful post. I love those diaries, they are things of beauty. Great to hear the story behind them is not a corporate one.

By: joan

joan — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 19:51:32 +0000

I no longer buy a diary – as a housewife I find that I don’t have much in the way of appointments to put in one. But in my younger days I often chose a Redstone diary. It was something of a statement about the sort of person that I wanted to be. They are very lovely.

Joan

By: Juliet shipman

Juliet shipman — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:42:51 +0000

Is this Julian the grandson of Sir William Rothenstein who lived at Far Oakridge in Gloucestershire and was a well know artist and much more beside?

By: mlleparadis

mlleparadis — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:32:48 +0000

so sorry I missed the 2011 artist’s diary! and why does mr. rothenstein look so familiar?

anyway so funny – i remember once upon a time when fournier st. seemed like the quietest back of beyond and now……it seems to be at the center of the universe! nice to see wonderful things still coming from it.

By: Achim

Achim — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:01:36 +0000

I love these striking old-style book titles! And love bookshelves as shown in the image. And, certainly, books anyway!
ACHIM

By: belle

belle — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 08:29:07 +0000

I remember when I first came across these books in the 1980’s in the Arts Council bookshop in Covent Garden I think. We still have many in our library, they are lovely to hold, read and look at.