ANNE HUDSON
A talented finger painter

"I am terribly sorry, I am terribly sorry!" I woke up in the middle of the night by a in the dark pretty scary person coming up my stairs to the upper floor, where I sleep. It was Anne Hudson! I did not even know she was coming. In those days we could sleep with our doors open and there was always a bedroom in the cellar for our friends to just walk in and use. Often we had a nice surprise in the morning. But this time Anne, for some reason had forgotten to change her money on the boat from England and then she could not pay for the taxi out to our place. This was very typical of Anne also not letting us know, that she was coming. But she was always welcome. We loved Anne very much and were happy she choose to stay at our home.

I do not really know much about Anne except what I could see for myself. She was obviously very talented as a finger painter. I liked her siameses and her horses best. She had a way of making their elegance show. As she travelled around Europe to different cat shows, she picked up peaces of the different languages and nearly learned to speak them! Another talent of hers. I do not think she had much schooling and her English was of a cockney dialect.

At the shows you could find Anne sitting on a stair with all her colors and stuff spread around her. Anne had long greyish hair and often wore long skirts. This gave her a bit of a hippy appearance.

If you look out the window at the back of my house, you do not see much. There is a high mountain wall going almost straight right up. One day Anne says "What a lovely mountain! Look at the fine structures and patterns."  This made me very happy since Anne is the only person, who has seen the beauty of my lovely mountain except for myself. Things like that makes you feel closer to someone, doesn't it?

One day I had a very sad telephone call from Anne's son. He told me Anne had developed a very fast kind of cancer and died. It was a nasty chock, but I am very grateful he contacted me. I am also very grateful that I got the opportunity to get to know Anne, a so very fascinating woman.

If you have a picture of Anne's paintings or even of Anne herself, please send it to me and I might include it in this page.