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Category Archives: Exhibitions
Losing my mojo
We all have moments when we lose our mojo, our sense of knowing why we do what we do, our reason for getting up and getting on with things in the morning or working towards certain goals. When we suddenly … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art as a business, Art purpose, Art technique, Art transformation tool, Exhibitions
Tagged art as a job, art business, art business strategy, art inspiration, artistic freedom, career direction, commercial art, creative flow, finding your way, freedom to be creative, living from the heart, making a career of art, making money through art, motivation, pitfalls of commercialising art, self-love, trusting your instincts, vision
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Of peacocks and dragons…
(..and of suns and moons, of archangels with swords and little silver fish); bizarre as it sounds, these things make up the main substance of the story of my week. As though intent on taking me on a journey that … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient sites, Archaeology, Art, Art in the living space, Art purpose, Art technique, Artists, Biography, Consciousness & evolution, Craft & design, Culture, Divine feminine, Exhibitions, History, Holiday destinations, Leylines, Life choices, Lifestyle, Music & theatre, Nature, Personal Development, Photography, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys, Travel, Universe, Walks
Tagged Anarchy & Beauty, ancient salt routes, Archangel Michael, Arts & Crafts Movement, Broadsword, Chipping Campden, comfort, Cotswolds, cursory tales, dragon lines, dragons, elusive joy, energy grid, Garden Cities, halloween, Kelmscott Manor, ley lines, living with art, Michael & Mary ley line, pagan sites, peacocks, Pre-Raphaelites, protection, sacred sites, silver fish, St Michael & All Saints, Stanton village, stone circles, sun and moon, symbolic journeys, symbols & meaning, tapestries, The Hobbit, The Rollright Stones, The Song of Wandering Aengus, WB Yates, William Morris
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Living art
On Friday, my daughter and I set off on a day trip to Cambridge – or should I say pilgrimage since this is about a five-hour round trip from where we live – to visit a place called Kettle’s Yard … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art history, Art in the living space, Art technique, Artists, Biography, Craft & design, Culture, Exhibitions, Galleries, History, Life choices, Lifestyle
Tagged Alfred Wallis, Ben Nicholson, Cambridge, Christopher Wood, Constantin Brancusi, David Jones, Harold Stanley 'Jim' Ede, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Henry Moore, Kettle's Yard, Miro, William Congdon
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The making of an artist
For some time now, I’ve had a half-formed post just hovering there without the words having arrived… All I had to build it on were some photos from the galleries taken on my recent visit to Nottingham Castle Museum in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art history, Art technique, Artists, Biography, Culture, Exhibitions, Films, Galleries, Literature
Tagged AJ Munnings, art training, breaking out of the art establishment, DH Lawrence, evolving art practices, Harold Knight, Jonathan Smith, Lamorna, Laura Knight, Newlyn School, Nottingham Castle, Sons and Lovers, Summer in February, what makes an artist?, women artists
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Gem-like rooms full of colour and light: in celebration of a gallery
My favourite gallery in Paris, bar none, is the Musée D’Orsay so stepping in there is like being a child let loose in a sweet shop for me; and never likely to be a swift visit either as I … Continue reading
Life is full of openings…and other wondrous stories
Something happened this weekend that took the lid off a box of stories I hardly knew I was harbouring; quite a bounty, as it happens, and with some distinct themes running through them all. The reason that they surfaced and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authorship, Biography, Books, Consciousness & evolution, Exhibitions, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Personal Development, Spirituality, Writing
Tagged artist fears, create own reality, fear of inactivity, fearing no structure, fibromyalgia ME chronic fatigue, following your joy, freedom, inner painting, joy, law of attraction, limitlessness, living in the now, manifesting your dreams, over-planning life, power of the mind, pursuing your passion, self-love, spontaneity, Story Waters, synchronicty, visualisation, visualising health
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