Category Archives: spirituality

Eco Collography – A New Development – St John’s Wort

Posted on July 18, 2017 by

Looking like fossilised remains of some ancient creature, this is an eco collograph of St John’s Wort, including stems, leaves and luscious red berries. I made a couple of little chemical changes to the process to ‘see what would happen’. … Continue reading →

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Eco Collographs: Shaking the Tree

Posted on July 11, 2017 by

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 →

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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Drawing-in the Withdrawn – Drawing in Meta-Meaning Mode led me to – a different approach entirely.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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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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Melvyn Bragg on Richard Dawkins

Posted on March 31, 2017 by

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I am London – Requiem

Posted on March 23, 2017 by

Poem to the rhythm of Lloyd Webber’s Pie Jesu I am London – Requiem I am London I am Westminster there yesterday yesterday plans changed today I am alive I am alive I am alive I am alive I am … Continue reading →

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Nature as Reliquary – or Cup Cake

Posted on March 5, 2017 by

Here are three recent eco prints on watercolour postcards, mounted on MDF board. Afterwards, I enhanced the prints with encaustic medium. Quite a process. I gathered the leaves to make the prints. I sandwiched the gathered leaves between the watercolour … Continue reading →

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New Year’s Clarification: God and the Seagulls: Subtitle: God (The Fisher King) Changes His Mind

Posted on February 6, 2017 by

“Exciting to see but soon after comes sadness the cormorant boats.”   Basho 2016 is over by a whole month. I didn’t make resolutions. I’m making a New Year’s Clarification. I was walking through a park, early one morning about … Continue reading →

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Women’s March, London 2017: Uplifting, Inspiring, Very Happy to be One Among the Young, Old, Dogs in Coats who Attended

Posted on January 21, 2017 by

   

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Just a Thought: No 1

Posted on December 1, 2016 by

An odd thought sometimes drops into that maze of neurons between my ears, so I’m thinking it might be a good idea to write these oddities down in blog form, as a more dynamic – interactive – way of recording … Continue reading →

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