Image: Photo, Art shop Melbourne, Australia. 2017. A SENSE OF PROPORTION. Imposed isolation gives us time to ponder on what is important in life. The preservation of art and culture may be something to consider. Quotes come from: (Rian Hughes from the book: CULT-URE ). ‘From a practical standpoint, art if functionally useless, -no-one ever…
Image: KITE LADY DANCING. 2014. Watercolour and Gouache on handmade paper. Private Collection Devon. This little painting deserves a poem and so I’ve written one today. As they say in Strictly, ‘KEEP DANCING’. DANCING. The kite lady dances on the stage, without a care she turns and spins, lost in the music that the piper plays,…
Image: Once upon a time. Watercolour on Handmade Paper. 14 x 10 cm. 2013 CEREMONIES. Today it really struck home how important ceremonies are for our wellbeing. The Oxford Engish dictionary defines them as: (a set of) formal acts, often fixed and traditional, performed on important social or religious occasions: Ceremonies are a way of coming to terms with and celebrating fundamental milestones; births, deaths, and all…
Inescapable. Life is inescapable, we live, we die, we love, we try to find the ways we can fulfil our promise as the days pass by. To find the person that we are, to reach that bright illusive star, to make the most of what we have before this mortal toil has passed. We make…
REACHING FOR THE UNBORN CHILD. Going back to the womb, examining the scan, finding out just who you were before your life began. What became of unborn you before life took its toll? Where now the child that saw the wonder of it all? Now cynical, now clinical, now sadly worldly wise, we can only…
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