Category Archives: Inspiration

Purple Sage, Accolade

Posted on July 21, 2017 by

Purple Sage (Eco Collograph) “Practicing creativity in every way we can think of feels like the most powerful response to current events that we can make. Adding to the beauty of the world and allowing our work to reflect the … Continue reading →

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Eco Collograph: Human Days and a Scene in Paradise

Posted on July 12, 2017 by

“I have walked once in summer by the side of a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn. The mint and white hawthorn have with them a vivid, rare delicious perfume. It makes you want to grovel on the … Continue reading →

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Walking with Shalott by the Light of Tabor, Noor, Nirvana, Ner Tamid, Diwali: A Response to Terrorists

Posted on June 9, 2017 by

Drawing-in the Withdrawn – Drawing in Meta-Meaning Mode led me to – a different approach entirely.  It happens. Still, there is a connection, in that I am yet again drawn; drawn to let recent work inform me of my onward … Continue reading →

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One Beautiful Thing

Posted on May 30, 2017 by

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.  Helen Keller Actually, there’s at least two beautiful things in this photo. P S No creature was … Continue reading →

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Drawing-in the Withdrawn – Drawing in Meta-Meaning Mode

Posted on May 9, 2017 by

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger than reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into … Continue reading →

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Hope: Satish Kumar Talking at 42 Acres, Shoreditch, London, April 2017

Posted on April 17, 2017 by

As promised in my blog Soil Soul Society, about the inaugural 42 Acres talk in their new London venue, here is the You Tube video made at the event, which I attended. I particularly liked Satish’s comments on Hope towards … Continue reading →

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Soil Soul Society: Satish Kumar Talks at 42 Acres London

Posted on April 2, 2017 by

42 Acres describes itself as “… a retreat space nestled within a secluded Somerset valley.”  And it has just established a beautiful centre in a deconsecrated church in the heart of Shoreditch, East London. The other night I attended the … Continue reading →

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Melvyn Bragg on Richard Dawkins

Posted on March 31, 2017 by

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M(ann) Meets M(ann) in Stamford

Posted on March 25, 2017 by

I had to be in Lincolnshire a couple of weeks back and dropped in on Lincoln. The first and last time I visited Lincoln’s cathedral was a staggering 46 years ago. All I could recall of that visit was the … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 23, 2017 by

Another from a recent eco print batch. The paper ground is one of the layers from the cardboard backing that fell away, after the boiling process, from my eco printing experiment using watercolour board. The wet cardboard fell apart into … Continue reading →

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