Category Archives: Aesthetics

Attention and Discernment

Posted on March 22, 2022 by AnnIsikArts

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Inspiration, Monoprinting, Painting, Printmaking, spirituality, Walking | Tagged Acrylic Painting, Monoprint, Painting on Wood Panel, Quote, Ralph Waldo Emerson | Leave a comment

Caol Áit – A Thin Place

Posted on December 6, 2021 by AnnIsikArts

I’d not heard of thin places until just a couple of weeks ago, from Wheel of Seasons. It seems I’m one of the very few who are not familiar with the expression. And yet, it is such an apt description … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Creativity, Painting | Tagged Bachelard, Cairns, Caol Ait, Celtic Spirituality, Dolmen, Hermit, Poetic Mapping, Rilke, Thin Places | 6 Comments

Still Taking the Anti-Dote (to the Poison of Chaos) And an Art Note

Posted on February 17, 2020 by AnnIsikArts

When all is done and dusted (pardon the pun) I’ll blog about what Jordan Peterson’s Clean up Your Room edict has revealed and changed. (Clean up Your Room comes from Dr Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life: An Anti-Dote to Chaos). … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Art Notes, Creativity, Inspiration, Music, Music Composition, Music Theory, Research, Walking | Tagged Anti-Dote to Chaos, Art Composition and Music Composition, Art Notes, Art Theory, John Cage, Jordan B Peterson, music theory | 7 Comments

Liminal Space, the Prepared Piano and Indeterminacy – a Quick Note to Myself and Anybody Reading

Posted on October 5, 2019 by AnnIsikArts

The subject of this blog was inspired in part by the Liminal States & Thresholds for Change series of artworks by Turtle Moon Impressions blogger Janis Doucette. Liminal space is that threshold space which is between one state of being and … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Creativity, Inspiration, Liede, Music, Music Composition, Music Theory, Romanticism, Singing | Tagged Casper David Friedrich, Eichendorffer, German Romanticism, Indeterminacy, John Cage, Jonas Kaufmann, Leiderkreis, Liminal State, Mondnacht, Prepared Piano, Schumann | 16 Comments

Mark Making, The Zen of Seeing, the Byzantine Monocondyle and the Seven Bridges of Königsberg

Posted on November 30, 2018 by AnnIsikArts

Warning: really long blog coming up. (I had to do a really long poetic walk this time). The quote opening my blog of 29 August was from The Zen of Seeing: Frederick Franck. Intrigued, I sent for the book. In parallel … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Blogging, Christian writing, Creativity, Drawing, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Printmaking, Science, spirituality, Walking, Walking Art, Writing | Tagged Automatic Writing, Bhagavad Gita, Byzance, Calligraphy, Drawing, Frederick Franck, Graph Theory, Krsna, Leonhard Euler, Mark Making, meditation, Mobius Strip, Monocondyle, Paul Klee, Poetic Mapping, Rust Printing, Rust Printing on Silk, Seven Bridges of Konigsberg, Stéphanie Devaux Textus, Tommy Wasserman, Tomography, Topology, Upanishads, Zen | 26 Comments

Homage to Nature

Posted on October 3, 2018 by AnnIsikArts

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.” ~ Aristotle

Posted in Aesthetics, Inspiration, Photography, spirituality | Tagged Aristotle, Cranesbill Geranium | Leave a comment

Look What Turned Up in the Garden – Common Stinkhorn

Posted on September 24, 2018 by AnnIsikArts

In fact two of these little fellers turned up in the garden. And that’s not sexist writing. Its Latin name is Phallus Impudicus and according to Wikipedia: “Botanist John Gerard called it the “pricke mushroom” or “fungus virilis penis effigie” … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Research, Science | Tagged Botanist John Gerard, Botanist John Parkinson, Common Stinkhorn, Deadman's Cock, Fungus virilis penis effigie, General Historie of Plants 1597, Hetty Darwin, Hollanders Working Toole, Linnaeus, Phallus hollandicus, Phallus Impudicus, Pricke Mushroom, Species Plantarum 1753, Theatrum botanicum 1640 | 2 Comments

I’m Back (with) Tacita Dean, Collectingness, Creativity and Health

Posted on August 14, 2018 by AnnIsikArts

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 | 10 Comments

Taking a Walk with Pussy Willow An-Dro into the (Negative) Space of Possibility

Posted on March 18, 2018 by AnnIsikArts

Like the other eco prints on watercolour paper in the batch made the other week, this is a pair of mirror image prints. Quite by chance (if you believe in coincidence – I don’t) there’s an inner circle of imprints … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Inspiration, Nature Journal, Printmaking, Research, spirituality | Tagged A Woman is a Weather Cock, An-Dro, Bible, Breton Circle Dance, Celtic Festivals, Christian Festivals, Circle Dance, Circle of Eight, Eco Printing, Figure of Eight Ice Skating, Flowers and Flower Lore, John Aubrey, Leviticus XXIII.40, Meaning of Eight, Metaphysics of Figure of Eight, Michael Drayton, Nathan Field, Nautical Knot Figure of Eight, Pussy Willow, Pythagorean Numerology, Rev Hilderic Friend, The Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, Willow, Willow Pattern | 16 Comments

Secret Studio

Posted on October 20, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

This was my secret studio during the period of The Great Transition, where I began to discover the eco collograph. It’s the shed at our allotment. It has a veranda which we closed in with trellising, including the trellis door … Continue reading →