Category Archives: Art

A Titanic Love Affair, Horse Chestnut Husk Dye and Mordanting with Moses the Chemist

Posted on October 15, 2018 by

My titanic love affair has little to do with those 12 sprogs/pre-Olympian gods of Uranus, less still the ill-fated ship of that name. I’m in love with the oxalate of a mineral element,  Titanium Oxalate (C4O8Ti) which is a new … Continue reading →

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Homage to Nature

Posted on October 3, 2018 by

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

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Working Like Snow

Posted on October 1, 2018 by

“Like Snow
Suppose we did our work
like the snow, quietly, quietly,
leaving nothing out.”

~Wendell Berry Continue reading →

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Look What Turned Up in the Garden – Common Stinkhorn

Posted on September 24, 2018 by

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 →

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The Season of Bowls

Posted on September 19, 2018 by

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Dear Westminster City Council Planning Department: Emmeline Pankhurst Statue

Posted on September 8, 2018 by

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Judas Basket, Magnetic Thinking, The Flowers of Evil and Eco-Dyeing with Wisteria

Posted on August 29, 2018 by

“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 →

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A First Try at Eco-Dyeing with Staghorn Sumac (Rhus Typhina)

Posted on August 26, 2018 by

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 →

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

Posted on August 14, 2018 by

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 →

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I’ll be Back

Posted on May 14, 2018 by

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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