The Colour With No Name 1 of 7

On my way into the studio, a breezy quarter of a mile walk from home, I often drop into the National Museum of Wales to have a quick look at the Cézanne’s or sometimes I check out a patch of one of the Monet Water Lilies or one of the sad and scary Van Gogh’s,
‘Landscape at Auvers in the Rain’- from the last few days of his life in July 1890 . . . All of them soooo present and as real as lightning, the most 'present' painting I've ever seen by the way is Vermeer's 'The Maidservant Pouring Milk' when it toured with other Vermeers to the National Gallery some years ago. It's 'there' like nothing else I've ever seen. Keeps me fighting fit.
I’m only in there half an hour, it’s like grabbing a slice of toast for breakfast, but this morning I’d had no breakfast and it was cold – I needed a cooked breakfast to set me up – I went to my usual place – upstairs in the covered market (it used to be a women’s prison) and who should be tucking into the same, but Doc Franklyn.
Dr Franklyn: Hey … good to see you, early start …?’ I look at him sideways, smiling. ‘Hungry start I think …You too I see…?’ and ordered knowing that I’d only have to wait a few minutes, it was busy and the griddle was in full sizzle. As usual with the good Dr, there’s hardly any preamble, he’s into it all fulltime – and so am I – so off he starts as I pull out the chair next to him and place my mug of tea and knife n fork in front of me.
Dr Franklyn: 'Listen, Something about those drawings got me thinking - I think it was their title, started me musing - the ones you were having some trouble with, the - We Enter As Animals - yes?. '
Me: 'Yes that’s right.'
Dr Franklyn: 'So if we enter animals, how do we leave? Is that it?'
Me: ‘That’s correct.’
Dr Franklyn: ‘I propose a solution … but you know what they say about cures…’ My breakfast arrived – I attacked it and he let me be as I set to and made up my mind whether I wanted to follow this one.
Me: Let’s jaw on that one another time Doc, if we can – I’m doing something with them right now and it’s too close to talk about.