Retirement Hobby: Collecting art

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What is a retirement hobby? At the risk of appearing a bit one-paced, another idea from last weekend’s Observer. This from a supplement entitled Make a New Start in 2022. Subtitled ‘tips and ideas for finding a new adventure in the new year’. Among the usual suspects – cookery, volunteering, gardening, kayak racing, music and photography – there was Rachel Cooke writing about the joys of collecting art. Not specifically retirement hobbies but close enough.

So inspired by this article, although I could hardly call it a new start, I decided to look at a small section of our art collection in just one house. And we could easily fill another – the Colorado cabin??

I’ve decided to present the images, or some of them, in the way they are arranged in the house. We have a black and white room (the main bedroom); a map room (the front living room) and the railway room (more a part of the landing than a room) where most of my railway art is gathered in this house. The rather limited photo of the railway art is at the beginning of this retirement hobby blog. I apologise for the lack of clarity.

Then below at the end, the 2 shots of the black and white room preceded by 2 of the map room.

 

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A blog about the psychology of retirement and finding a new identity while maintaining my self esteem. It's also about 'the missing link', an answer to that feeling that there must be more to retirement than this. Or is that just me?

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