Call Sign August 2007 - Page 11 - Jery Craig’s ‘doodle pix’ are a hit with the art world!

In July 2004, Call Sign was surprised to hear of the retirement of this magazine’s former editor and current brilliant cartoonist, Gerald ‘Jery’ Craig. Gerald told us at the time that he had been on Dial-a-Cab for 38 years and at 67, still feeling fit, decided to hang up his licence and begin to do some of the things he had always wanted to, but just never had the time because of the need to go to work! His wife Barbara remembered that first day of his retirement well: "He went into our garden shed and spent several hours doing some sculpturing – something he used to love but just stopped having the time for. It didn’t take much working out to see that he intended to enjoy his retirement!" Now, three years down the line and having reached 70, Gerald’s artistic hobby has turned into a successful business – but with paintings rather than sculptures. He has been selling his artwork periodically over the years, but only in the last six months has he	Jery Craig’s ‘doodle pix’ are a hit with the art world!
	One of Jery's masterpieces taken it that seriously that the artist’s bible, Art Business Today, after seeing his work recommended him to online publisher and retailer ID-wall.com. Jery’s new works are perhaps difficult to describe. Art Business Today describes them as modern day doodles and to some they could appear that way, but these are no ordinary doodles. What Gerald does is to tailor an individual watercolour to a person’s life. People approach him to create an original watercolour to give as a gift when celebrating a special event in someone’s life.	"I’ve had people buy them to celebrate weddings, barmitzvahs, graduations, retirements and most things that you could think of deserving a special commemoration." Gerald gets the buyer to fill in a form that gives him details of the person to whom the gift will be made. He then paints a watercolour that will feature almost every event in that person’s life, with the end result makes a totally unique gift showing numerous events in that person’s life – and the more you look, the more you see! You can see examples of Gerald’s unique work on www.ID-wall.com, although they do not represent what he can do on an individually tailored watercolour. You can phone him on 020 8428 3036 and he’ll be delighted to explain what it’s all about. And of course, you can still catch Jery’s cartoons in every issue on page 6…

DAC threesome at the WCHCD Golf Day

A threesome representing Dial-a-Cab were among the 20 players at the Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers Golf Day organised by Court Assistant Brenda Bartlett and held at Nazeing Golf Club. The day helped to raise money for the Charitable Trust.
   An interesting and challenging course was enough to provide some good competitive rounds of golf with Company Beadle, John Sheen, keeping a watchful eye on the proceedings.
   The contest winner was Bobby Norris, closely followed by Rick Stacey with the third prize going to Alan Burnham. As well as winning a golf bag as contest winner, Bobby Norris also won the prize for nearest-the-pin.
   DaC’s team consisted of Duncan Hope (R52), Allen Togwell and Howard Pears. A great day was enjoyed by all and hopefully next year’s event will attract even more golfers.

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