A Favoured Piece of Art Can Warm The Soul, Lift The Mood, Provide Unexpected Motivation, And Even Inspire Great Conversation. That’s Why The Affordable Art Movement Is Something We (Here At TheOrator.Press – TO.P – @theorator.press.on.insta) Very Much Support As An Idea.
Having Attended The Battersea Affordable Arts Fair And Met Some Wonderful Artists And Gallery Owners Last Month (See Previous Issue) We Followed Up By Attending A New Fine Arts Gallery Launch In The Royal Borough of Richmond Upon Thames At The Start of This Month. It’s A Great Family Run Gallery And We Thoroughly Recommend A Visit. The People Are Interesting, Friendly And Fun (To Say The Least)
@noonpowellfineart Noon Powell Fine Art Gallery 20 Red Lion Street, Richmond, TW9 1RW
(At The Top of Victoria Place, A Residential Walkway off Richmond High Street)
[TO.P’s Original Art Reviews & Articles Relating To The Battersea Art Show Also In This Month’s Issue.]
Amongst The Guests Quite Unexpectedly We Met A Lovely Lady Who Happened To Be A Keen Kevin Hart Fan. Such Was Her Enthusiasm For Him We Developed A Mild Obsession Ourselves And Subsequently Decided To Take A Closer Look At His Career And Discovered Just How Truly Cool The Man Really He Is. We’d Seen Him Before In Interviews (Including On Both Graham Norton And The Jonathan Ross Show) Always Being Funny, Laughing And Joking And Telling Stories, But Looking Further We Discovered He Actually Takes Comedy Very Seriously. @kevinhart4real
He’s Also A Very Serious Family Man And Loves Spending Time At Home, As Well As Enjoying The Celebrity Lifestyle. His Dedication To Fitness Is Self-Evident And It’s Interesting To Note That He Loves A Home Work. That May Sound Comfortable But His Workout’s Are Not For Faint-Harted’.
We Especially Love That He Loves Swimming. This, Like His Film ‘Fatherhood’, Helps Break Down A Major Cultural Stereotype. He Provides Great Examples of His Love of The Water Which Are Truly Inspiring @kevinhart4real
The Story of Black People And The Sea Is One Associated With Slavery, Terrible Cruelty And Wickedness. And Whilst Black People Have Excelled As Athletes On The Running Track, Most Supremely Exemplified By Jamaica’s 3 x Olympic Gold Medal Usain Bolt, Similar Success In The Swimming Pool Is Not Yet As Widespread.
Nonetheless Efforts Are Being Made To Change This And That Is Something Which We (TheOrator.Press – @theorator.press.on.insta – TO.P) Support. Swimming Is Not Just A Great Exercise Activity, A Great Sport, And Great Fun, It’s Also A Life Skill.
It’s One We As A Community Need To Embrace More Because Racists Have Used A Lack of This Life Skill Against Us And There Have Been Several Cases of Killings By Drowning Perpetrated Against Members of The Black Community In Recent Times (As Well As Historically As Aforementioned Above).
There Are Some Great Black Swimmers We Can Look To For Inspirational Examples. These Include Three Black Olympian Swimmers, Two Black Swim Champions & A Number of Great Swimming Organisations:
Equitorial Guinea’s Endearing Olympian Swimmer Eric The Eel Mousambanni
Pionnering Black British Female Olympian Swimmer Alice Dearing
British Jamaican Swimming Champian Michael Gunning
African-American Olympic Swimmer Simone Manuel
British Swimmer Eva Okara
Speedo’s Swim United
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Kevin Hart Understands Single ‘Fatherhood’ As His Mother Set Him A Great Example In Her Single ‘Motherhood’. She Taught Him Well And Helped Him Develop The Art of Self-Discipline And A Love of The Water And Swimming.
Plus A Fan Has A Happy City Break Memory Featuring The Icon In Italy, An Outfit Compliment From His Wife, And A Brief Chance Encounter At The Decadent Hotel Danielli In Venice.
Three Weeks After Our Aforementioned Art Gallery Encounter, Again, Quite Unexpectedly Channel Four Broadcast ‘Fatherhood’ On Wednesday 23 April In The Early Hours of The Morning. We’d Never Watched It Before But Made An Effort To Stay Up And Watch It As Our New Art Gallery Friend Was Such A Fan of The Dynamite Muscle Man Comedian.
If That Isn’t A Sign We Don’t Know What Is. But A Sign of What? That’s The Question!
Hart Has Said In A Number of Interviews That This Film Is Amongst His Proudest Work And He Loves It.
Why?
Because He Can Very Much Relate To It. And Being Able To Relate To It So Much Has A lot To Do With Him Being Raised By A Single Mother Who Had To Struggle With The Reality of Having Two Children Whose Other Parent Was An Absent Father. Hart Has Nothing But Love For His Late Mother Who He Is Always Respectfully Referencing.
He And His Older Brother Have Reconciled But As Children They Were Eventually Separated After His Senior Sibling Went off The Rails And His Mother Refused To Let The Same Thing Happen To Him. The Brother Was Sent Away And Kevin Was Subjected To A Strict Regime of Discipline.
This Included Acting Lessons And Swimming. His Mother Did Well Because Kevin In Now A Global Success Filling Stadiums Again And Again As People Pay Big Bucks To Go See Him And Have Him Make Them Laugh Hard At Life’s Hard Realities, Outrages And Stupidities. He’s Also a Phenomenal International Company Executive Producing All Kinds of Media Agreements, PR Successes, And Media Collaborations. He’s An Entrepreneurial Investor On Shark Tank (America’s Equivalent of Dragon’s Den). And He Actually Loves The Ocean And Large Expanses of Water, Being A Confident Diver And Swimmer. And of Course, He Has World-Wide Admirers
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