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- Statue of Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst STAYS! September 18, 2018
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The Season of Bowls
Posted in Art, Photography
Tagged Avocado Bowl, Avocado Skin, Avocado Stone, Bowl, Horse Chestnut, Horse Chestnut Husk, Wisteria Bowl
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Statue of Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst STAYS!
The statue of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst is going to stay in Parliament. The planning application to move Pankhurst from her historic home was withdrawn just days after a huge petition to Westminster Council signed by over 180,000 was handed over. Continue reading
Dear Westminster City Council Planning Department: Emmeline Pankhurst Statue
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Dear Westminster City Council Planning Department: Emmeline Pankhurst Statue
Dear Westminster City Council Planning Department, After a fight, a statue of Dame Millicent Fawcett, suffragist, was erected earlier this year in Parliament Square, the first statue of a woman ever to be placed there. This, together with the statue … Continue reading
London Women’s March Friday 13 July 2018
During my recent blogging sabbatical I took part in the London Women’s March on Friday 13 July 2018. It was to be a celebration of diversity. We were to be colourfully dressed and bring stuff with which to make a lot of noise. Many brought pots and pans and something to hit them with. I brought my soprano voice. Continue reading
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Tagged Caged children, Donald Trump, I really don't care do u?, London Women's March 2018, Melania Trump
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Judas Basket, Magnetic Thinking, The Flowers of Evil and Eco-Dyeing with Wisteria
“I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle. ” ~Frederick Franck, The Zen of Seeing. I like … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Mixed Media, spirituality
Tagged Basketry, Basketry with Wisteria, Baudelaire, Bowls, Correspondances, Drawing, Dyeing with Wisteria, Eco Dyeing with Wisteria, Eco Printing, God's Eye Basketry, Gospel of Judas, Jesus of Nazareth, Judas Iscariot, Les Fleurs du Mal, Nag Hammadi
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A First Try at Eco-Dyeing with Staghorn Sumac (Rhus Typhina)
I was delighted, when we first came in May last year to inspect what was to become our new home, to find no less than four mature Staghorn Sumac trees flourishing in the garden, for I knew Sumac to be … Continue reading
I’m Back (with) Tacita Dean, Collectingness, Creativity and Health
The other day I was unpacking a box (yes, almost a year after our house move there are boxes yet to be opened) and came upon a small yet very heavy suitcase and on opening it found it housed my … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Collage & Assemblage, Creativity, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Stones
Tagged Cast-making, Collecting, Embalming, encaustic, Fossils, mummification, Papier-mâché, Royal Academy, Tacita Dean
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I’ll be Back
I’m having to have a break from blogging. My longest since I started blogging in 2013. My first blogging holiday in five years. Meanwhile, it’s catkin season. I’ll be back. Hope you’re all having a good 2018. See you soon. … Continue reading
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New Departures in Eco Printing – Impressures Negative Realities and Graphic Notation
More eco prints on watercolour paper. The deep brown-black of the sumac is the actual leaf. It fused with the paper because I made an extra-tight sandwich of the materials and steamed it for a longer period of time in … Continue reading
