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TwitterArtExhibit (TAE)17: Funds Raised as of 28 April 2017 and TAE18
“Through art we can change the world.” That’s the subtitle for TAE. I entered the Twitter Art Exhibit for the first time this year, which involved donating a postcard-sized work of art for auction, this year at Stratford-Upon-Avon. Proceeds went … Continue reading
Nature as Reliquary – or Cup Cake
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
Trammels, the Cailleach, the Caim and the Gratitude Hot-Wire
By sheer synchronicity 🙂 just after posting my last blog – Beauty and Story in Unlikely Places – images of some of the exquisite works of artist Mary Snyder Behrens dropped into my email box. Trammels, she calls them. She … Continue reading
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November 10, 2015
Tagged Apologetic, Art as Gratitude, Art as Prayer, Cailleach, Caim, Carmina Gadelica, Celtic Christianity, Celtic Prayer, Corn Dolly, David Adams, Eidolon, encaustic art, Found Object, Gratitude Hot Wire, Hebridean Celts, Mary Snyder Behrens, Peak Experience, recycled sari silk, Supreme Being, Thomas Hardy, Trammel, Trash Art
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Small Works on a Quantum Journey: Wax and the Wedjat Eye
I was asked – well, that’s my interpretation of the incident – in revisiting my artistic past, my dead ends – to pay attention to focus. Is focus the same as theme? As nouns, yes. Focus is also a verb. To focus. An action word. It requires the action of thinking. Deliberate thinking. The sort of thinking that requires deliberate action, deliberate arranging – taking control of – the space and time in which to think. Continue reading
