Category Archives: Art

Work in Progress: Painting Exercise Using a Limited Palette

Posted on April 5, 2022 by AnnIsikArts

All images arising at the moment result from an art programme I’m undertaking. Last week’s course module dealt with balancing colour values using a palette limited to black, white, dark cadmium red and yellow ochre. This is my second year … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Creativity, Monoprinting, Painting, Printmaking | Tagged Acrylic Painting, Art2Life, Limited Palette, Monoprinting, Painting | Leave a comment

Some Maps are Nautical

Posted on April 1, 2022 by AnnIsikArts

“On these magic shores children at play are forever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.“ J.M. Barrie

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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

Spring is on its Way Again – Inside and Out

Posted on March 8, 2022 by AnnIsikArts

Posted in Art, Inspiration, Nature Journal | Tagged Cheeseplant, Daffodils, inspiration, Interior/Exterior, Spring | Leave a comment

Bloganuary 28: Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs

Posted on January 29, 2022 by AnnIsikArts

On my playlist right now are Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs (Vier letzte Lieder). I should write still on my playlist as I was learning these last year as an online workshop to sing with The Choir of the Earth. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Music, Singing | Tagged #bloganuary, Ernst Roth, Four Last Songs, Kirsten Flagstad, Renée Fleming, Richard Strauss, Vaccai | 2 Comments

Bloganuary 27: Thin Places

Posted on January 27, 2022 by AnnIsikArts

“Nothing can be done without solitude. I’ve created my own solitude which nobody suspects.” Pablo Picasso. (AZ Quotes) I am sickened [it read] by the spectacle of your obstinately closed door. It indicates that a new aristocracy has been created, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Creativity, Inspiration, Quotes | Tagged #bloganuary, Ait Caol, Caol Ait, Carlton Lake, Christian Science Monitor, Demoiselles d'Avignon, Picasso, Poetic Mapping, The Atlantic Magazine, Thin Place | Leave a comment

Bloganuary 22: The Impossible Finch and The Machines

Posted on January 22, 2022 by AnnIsikArts

A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected. … Reif Larsen: The Selected Works of T S Spivet I … Continue reading →

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Bloganuary21: Time Travelling to 9/11

Posted on January 21, 2022 by AnnIsikArts

The idea of Bloganuary is to post a blog every day, in response to a prompt. Today, the prompt is asking me: if I could travel through time, which year would I choose to travel to and why. My immediate … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Dreams, spirituality | Tagged #bloganuary, 9/11, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Distant Dreaming, Dream-types, Lucid Dreaming, Precognitive Dreaming, Relativity, Remote Dreaming, Richard Dreyfuss, Time Travel | Leave a comment

On Collage and the Loss of Wonder

Posted on January 17, 2022 by AnnIsikArts

“When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not emerge, do not leave: they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.” … Continue reading →