Tag Archives: William Morris

The unmistakable lightening of days

Posted on February 6, 2020 by Helen White

Let me take you on a walk through a city; am impromptu Imbolc ceremony with a difference. No green pasture this, no village tree surrounded by fields…but, rather, pavements cracked with gold that speak of new beginnings. As ever, my … Continue reading →

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Painting backgrounds – a weekend of art films

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Helen White

For two hours, or thereabouts, on Saturday I was held utterly absorbed by a film and, straight afterwards, held interested enough to avidly cross-reference what I had just seen with some reading until bedtime. The film was called ‘Effie Gray’ … Continue reading →

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Two exhibitions: a day of unlikely marriages

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Helen White

This week, I visited two art exhibitions in Oxford that have been in my diary for a long time. At the first, I was greeting on entry by the immense William Morris tapestry “The Attainment” with its depiction of the … Continue reading →

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Peeling back layers

Posted on December 24, 2014 by Helen White

There is a chair in my life that’s, quite literally, always been there – and don’t so many of us have such pieces of furniture and other accumulated objects that are ‘just there’ because they are? This one – an … Continue reading →

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Of peacocks and dragons…

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Helen White

(..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 →

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