Category Archives: Research

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

More Notes from a Melody Not Yet Written

Posted on October 14, 2019 by AnnIsikArts

“Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures.” (AZ Quotes) – Rabindranath Tagore, from: Purabi: A Miscellany in Memory of Rabindranath Tagore 1941-1991, by Krishna Dutta, Rabindranath Tagore (1991). (AZ Quotes)

Posted in Art, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Inspiration, Monoprinting, Music, Music Composition, Music Theory, Printmaking, Research | Tagged AZ Quotes, Cold Pressure Eco Print, Eco Print, Eco Print on Paper, Krishna Dutta, Rabindranath Tagore | 1 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

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

Eco Print on Silk, Cranesbill Geraniums and their Metaphysics

Posted on November 29, 2016 by AnnIsikArts

Posted in Art, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Ecology, Inspiration, Printmaking, Research | Tagged Cranesbill Geranium, Eco Printing, Eco Printing on Silk, Jacobean Collar, Silk Habotai | 4 Comments

In Praise of Slow

Posted on November 9, 2016 by AnnIsikArts

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” Henry David Thoreau Here’s another from my latest batch of eco prints on silk. I took the batch outside to photograph. I thought how well this print looked … Continue reading →

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Art Quotes I Like and Why II: Yayoi Kusama and the Polka Dot

Posted on October 16, 2016 by AnnIsikArts

“A polka dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the whole energy of the world and our living life, and also the form of the moon which is calm … Polka dots are a way … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Creativity, Inspiration, Research | Tagged Art Quote, Jude Hill, Polka dot, Roger Ackling, Spirit Cloth, Yayoi Kusama | 4 Comments

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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Inching Towards … Kalkmalerier: Danish Medieval Wall Paintings and Portable Altars

Posted on October 7, 2015 by AnnIsikArts

In the process yesterday of unearthing my collection of sketches, notes, drawings, paintings and other fragments – images I produced during the time I lived in France (shall I call that my French period, or leave that to future art historians?:)) I also … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Art Journal, Artist Sketchbooks, Collage & Assemblage, Encaustic Art, Mixed Media, Printmaking, Research | Tagged Art and Spirituality, Danish Medieval Wall Paintings, Kalkmalerier, Plaster of Paris Accordion Books, Portable Altars | Leave a comment

Inch of the Day Monday 21 September 2015: Singing the Life Fantastic

Posted on September 22, 2015 by AnnIsikArts

I did an inch of thinking this morning and made an inch of headway on yesterday’s decision to do a backward synopsis of my novel–in–edit. I worked an inch of the allotment – under more than an inch of cold rain, … Continue reading →