Category Archives: Allotmenteering

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 →

Posted in Aesthetics, Allotmenteering, Art, Art Journal, Collage & Assemblage, Creativity, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Ecology, Inspiration, Nature Journal, Printmaking, Vegetarianism | Tagged Allotmenteering, art studio, Eco Collography, Printing with Herbs | 2 Comments

Eco Collographs: Shaking the Tree

Posted on July 11, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? Logan Pearsall Smith The image above is another of my experiments with eco collographs on 300gsm watercolour paper. Look like … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Allotmenteering, Art, Collage & Assemblage, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Ecology, Nature Journal, Printmaking, spirituality | Tagged Brainy Quote, Collograph, Cull, Eco Collograph, Logan Pearsall Smith, Plum Tree Shoots, Sucker | 2 Comments

Oak Flowers on Silk – an Epitaph

Posted on April 21, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

There may not be another Spring in this park, so here is a bouquet in tribute, of flowers of oak, on silk. Continue reading →

Posted in Allotmenteering, Art, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Ecology, Printmaking, Walking, Walking Art | Tagged Eco Print on Silk, Eco Printing, Oak Flowers, Satish Kumar, Soil Soul Society | 2 Comments

Dramatic Narratives: More Eco Print Experiments

Posted on February 19, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

Nature in conversation. It is happening all around us. I think the pre-industrialised world could hear it. Indeed, we were part of Nature’s conversation. We knew it. Because we knew that we also were Nature. Then along came The Enlightenment … Continue reading →

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Taking a Red Cabbage (and an Apple) for a (Low Calorie) Walk

Posted on November 17, 2016 by AnnIsikArts

With apologies to Paul Klee for misquoting his famous definition of drawing (that it is … taking a line for a walk). This is a red line that’s been taken for a walk. Well, … more like a spin. A … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Allotmenteering, Art, Creativity, Inspiration, Science | Tagged labyrinth, low calorie, low calorie red cabbage recipe, Paul Klee, Red cabbage, spiral, steamed apple, weight management | 14 Comments

Adventuring

Posted on September 1, 2016 by AnnIsikArts

Yes, I think you can call it that – adventuring – what I’ve been doing since my last blog of … 31 July. Really? I’ve been gone that long? Oh, well, when the road calls … Here’s a handful of photos to illustrate some of what I’ve been up to, each of which I will expand upon in due course. Continue reading →

Posted in Allotmenteering, Art, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Printmaking | Tagged Allotmenteering, Cooking from Harvest, Eco Print, feather, Harvesting, Norfolk Churches | 6 Comments

Squares Activated and the Importance of Boundaries

Posted on July 11, 2016 by AnnIsikArts

I took the photo on the left a few days ago. Had I taken it the day before, you’d not have been able to see the squares of veggies (the wooden frames) for the height of the grass surrounding them. We … Continue reading →

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One Square at a Time

Posted on June 30, 2016 by AnnIsikArts

There is a lot of weather going round at the moment, physically and metaphysically. Since I’m talking about squares, forgive the play on words, though the round in my first sentence ought really to be around. Poetic licence. There is a deal of … Continue reading →

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Visual Journal 3: Superhero

Posted on May 3, 2016 by AnnIsikArts

Oh, yes, this daily (for daily, read, striving for daily) visual journalling thing is proving to be a good idea. (I can hear a trillion-scrillion-to-the-power-of-infinity-and-more artists around the known and unknown universes, groaning, shaking their heads in disbelief and asking in unison: … Continue reading →

Posted in Allotmenteering, Art, Art Journal, Artist Sketchbooks, Creativity, Drawing, Inspiration, spirituality | Tagged Boccioni, Einstein, Electrodynamics, Futurism, Objets-trouve, Relativity, Speed of Light, Superhero, visual journal | Leave a comment

Visual Journal 2 – Taking a Line for a (Poetic) Walk

Posted on April 28, 2016 by AnnIsikArts

Well, from the start I haven’t been able to keep up a daily visual journal. To be honest, I didn’t believe I would be able to achieve that. Something with a thousand different names, from Life to … seeks to … Continue reading →