This blog examines the areas I am interested in – art and books and degrowth and flora and fauna and everything in between. This is where I write about ongoing projects, present my art and write about the issues in the world that I find meaningful.
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Eileen Laurie
I’m taking part in the fantastic online course Illustrating Nature: A Creative Exploration by Laura McKendry on Domestika. The course is full of interesting, entertaining and productive activities that have really helped me get back in drawing and painting! Here’s one example from an exercise on drawing from life. Drawing a pomegranate in the depths […]
Rob Hopkins
The Kelpies in Falkirk have become very famous, but this is a view that you rarely see. It pays to go off the beaten track, away from the crowds. You might be surprised by what you find.
W. G. Sebald
For most of my life sewing was just too hard, too complicated, and too scary. A ferocious sewing teacher in primary seven put me off sewing machines, and she ripped out my “from the wrong end” stitches, since she couldn’t prevent me sewing left-handed. I was put in the third row (for the […]
Elandria Williams
2021 I took this image in Berlin and it always makes me smile. Did the graffiti artist lose the plot, or only a few letters? In any case, I hope this is still there on that painted brick wall in a rather staid district of Berlin.
Rumi
Playing with my name, white granite and pine cones. And an excess of E’s.
Jonathan Palmér