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Monthly Archives: November 2015
Encaustic Work in Progress (aided and abetted by Badger, Mole, Ratty, Toad and Mrs Ffleshe)
This is tiny. Each of the two pages measures 4″x4″, the images within about 3″x3″. It is an altered book, artist’s book, encaustic on Plaster of Paris, eco print, collage. When it’s finished I will have added stitch and more … Continue reading
Posted in Altered Books, Art, Artist Books, Character Development, Collage & Assemblage, Creativity, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Encaustic Art, Inspiration, Mixed Media, novel editing, Photography, Writing
Tagged Altered book, Artist's Book, Badger, Eco Print, encaustic, Mole, Momigami, Mrs Ffleshe, Otter, Patrick Benson, Plaster of Paris, Ratty, The Willows at Christmas, Toad, William Horwood
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The Talking Knot, the Khipu of Rapaz and Cheese and Tomato Lasagne
Everything is connected to everything else. We are all connected. Anything any one of us does, impacts in some way on anything and anyone else. Continue reading
Je Suis Paris
Posted in Photography, spirituality
Tagged Bleeding Heart, Dicentra Spectabilis, Je Suis Paris
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Trammels, the Cailleach, the Caim and the Gratitude Hot-Wire
By sheer synchronicity 🙂 just after posting my last blog – Beauty and Story in Unlikely Places – images of some of the exquisite works of artist Mary Snyder Behrens dropped into my email box. Trammels, she calls them. She … Continue reading
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November 10, 2015
Tagged Apologetic, Art as Gratitude, Art as Prayer, Cailleach, Caim, Carmina Gadelica, Celtic Christianity, Celtic Prayer, Corn Dolly, David Adams, Eidolon, encaustic art, Found Object, Gratitude Hot Wire, Hebridean Celts, Mary Snyder Behrens, Peak Experience, recycled sari silk, Supreme Being, Thomas Hardy, Trammel, Trash Art
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Beauty and Story in Unlikely Places
Beauty can turn up in the most unlikely places. A golden dawn, reflected. Just what on earth is the source of that green light, emanating, it seems, from that satellite dish? One could write such a story … Let me … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Photography
Tagged Beauty and Story, Dawn Photo, reflection, Visual Prompt
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Singing: In St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square
Yesterday I joined a bunch of other singers in the famous St Martin-in-the Fields church at Trafalgar Square for a morning singing workshop on three of Handel’s Coronation Anthems, followed at 12.30 by a public performance. (That’s me – soprano … Continue reading
