Image: The Gift of Fire. Mixed Media on Canvas. 30 x 30 x 1.5 cm. 2018. Private Collection Greece. HOPE. ‘Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all’ Emily Dickinson. In Greek mythology the tale of Zeus and Prometheus is…
Image: Coffee Sack Series No.4. AVALON. Mixed Media on Canvas. 50 x 50 cm. 2016 LEGENDS If I hadn’t become an artist and teacher of art I would have probably become a historian or an Archeologist. Legends like the tale of King Arthur fascinate me. Was the Isle of Avalon, the legendary resting place of…
Image: Granada. Mixed Media on primed calico. 2005 At times like these we can reminisce about travel, remembering all the wonderful places we have seen and thinking about all those we will be able to visit when things get back to normal. The painting is of the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. The piece of writing…
Image: JACKDAWS. Acrylic on Canvas. 76 x 61 x 2 cm. 2020 Jackdaws have built a nest in our chimney and we have to wait till the young or grown and leave before we can get it cleared, a job for a chimney sweep, but not till the lockdown is finished. Jackdaws are not the…
Image: Fridge magnet. The sleeping Lady of Malta is a late Neolithic clay statuette from the Temple Period, 4000 – 2500 BCE, unearthed from the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum tombs. SLEEPING Be assured that those now sleeping in eternal peace are looking down on you, knowing you will love them always. With absent friends now reunited,…
Image: LITTLE ST. GEORGE. Mixed Media Assemblage. 2013. PROTECTION When times get rough we rely on those who protect us, be they actual, traditional or religious. We all remember ‘God for Harry, England and St George’, but St Georges net is spread wider than these Shakespearean shores. St George is the National Saint of: Georgia, England,…
THE ESSENTIALS. Its true that man can’t live by bread alone, but even if he did, first he has to find a shop that sells flour. Of course you need to have the money to pay for it too. Spare a thought for a great many pensioners, the homeless, and the unemployed, for whom living…
Image: The thin Grey Line. Acrylic on Canvas. 2014. We often have to tread a fine line and we wish it was wider. Nothing seems more true than at the moment. This poem is about our relationship with that thing we call fate. FINE LINE. There’s a fine line we all must tread, a fine…
MENDING FENCES. The old fence had fallen to bits and needed to be replaced, so here I am about half way through the job. No hurry of course, looks like I’ll have time, but the roses will need something to grow against when they start to bloom again. Sunny days with all those small jobs…
ANTIQUES Got a feeling that most of my Lockdown blogs have been a bit too serious of late so I thought this picture taken in a little town in Australia in 2017 may cheer you up. See you tomorrow. G
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