The Camden Market Free Art Man Pugmired

The first day Emma Pugmire joined me to do The Camden Market Free Art Man. It took her long enough. Even Ron Throop had managed a day at Camden by now, travelling from Oswego in New York State. Emma lives in Crouch End, which is even closer to Camden than I am in Muswell Hill. Emma was giving away surprise art, you take an envelope so it's only after you get the work that you find out what it is. It's like a book shop on Muswell Hill Broadway, where you buy a book wrapped up in brown paper. They sell them as "A Blind Date with a Book", and must be pretty popular as they always have them on a shelf outside the store. This video was recorded 9th August 2025. I also brought some large paintings from my Heckel's Horse Jr. series that I painted on fibreboard underlay. I thought it would be a cheap alternative to canvas, but discovered they are fragile, crumble and toxic. I don't know what I was thinking, as I had already long been painting on cardboard which is free and works fine.