The Norman Spencer Gallery

:-O I have just noticed that the host for the Gallery of Norman Spencers Xara Art has gone, which is a real shame.

For those who didn't know Norman (the Flying Scotsman) and follow his posts as member 'Parahandy', he was one of TG's jollyest and kindest senior members! He had a penchant for drawing mostly old cars. He didn't consider himself an artist or any good with software, infact he once said he almost got rid of Xara Xtreme because he was useless with it. However, he kept at it and with encouragement from the members of TalkGraphics he very soon developed his own style and pace to become one of our most prolific Xara Artists at Talkgraphics.com. It was great to see his talents grow in such a very short time.
Sadly Norman was taken from us in 2008 however through his art, his memory lives :)

The Parahandy Picture Parade can now be seen here.

Moderator's Note: The link for the Gallery has been changed please see new link here:http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...427#post500427

Thanks for taking over the hosting of Norman's work Steve :)

Thanks Steve. It is good to see Normans drawings all together.

This is a nice little memorial for someone who enlivened Talkgraphics with his enthusiasm and his readiness to comment and encourage others.
Derek

Thanks Steve.

We miss you Norman.

Thanks, Steve. Norman was a real gentleman.

Those are absolutely fantastic pieces of art, Beautifully done. It would have been a great pleasure to have known him, thank you for posting.

Norman was one of a kind, full of generosity, humour and of course, talent. He embodied the spirit of talkgraphics, and we are all poorer for his passing. Thanks Steve for giving us access to The Parahandy Picture Parade.
Saludos,
Bob.

Thanks Steve for hosting Norman's pictures. They are wonderful works of art.

I echo Ontos' sentiment - it would have been a 'great pleasure to have known him'.

Regards

Su

It's hard to believe he's been gone since 2008. I also enjoyed his posts and his interactions with others. He was a wonderful member here and did amazing things with Xara. Thanks for the gallery.

What happened to the link, I can't seem to get in. I miss looking at his drawings :-O

the picture parade link in post #1 is working for me ie:

this link

That is totally weird, for two days I received a error message saying windows could not open this page, now it works fine. Totally confused :-O Thanks mate.

Links aren't working again.

As best as I can tell Steve Ledger has been hosting this gallery himself so he would be the one that would know about this. :)

http://xara-users.info/parahandy/ - The old url no longer in use, if you could put this into post #1 I'm sure it would be appreciated :)

Thanks for the updated info, I've put a note in the opening post.

Thanks :-bd

Thank you Frances.:)

I still love going back here and viewing Norman's work. He did some great work. Miss him too.

Indeed. Thank you so much for the reminder about Norman's work and humanity.

Both links does not work, at least for me.
Could you test if these links still work
from your location?

the xara users forum has ceased to be and that is where it was last hosted afaik

I think they still have a facebook account that might be worth checking out

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Originally Posted by capellan

Both links does not work, at least for me.
Could you test if these links still work
from your location?

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xara-user.info folded a time back and sledger decamped to FB or similar so chasing dead links is not going to be productive.

Acorn

P.S. @Mod - The Thread probably ought to be unStickied.

it's a shame - Normans drawings were some of the very best..

Norman was a much loved contributor to TG whose vector art was greatly admired from an 80+ year old Glaswegian. Disgusted to see his artwork is no longer featured unless you search for parahandy on TG. Normans contribution to TG was legend.

Attached is one of his numerous drawings.

Some art lives on...

http://archive.xaraxone.com/FeaturedArt/oct07/1.html

Could be more featured artist entries from Norman but I didn't look. I thought there was, but they say the ...

I'm just curious as to why this posting is still here. There's no direct link to his work anymore.

There's one in the post above yours Ron.

http://archive.xaraxone.com/FeaturedArt/oct07/1.html

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Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

There's one in the post above yours Ron.

http://archive.xaraxone.com/FeaturedArt/oct07/1.html

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Thanks, Eric.
I did see that, of course.
However, that displays far fewer than were originally posted.

Why? I guess it doesn’t matter.

Never mind.