on van gogh, trees, skies and birds
I went to see the current crowd-pulling exhibition at The Royal Academy this week, The Real van Gogh: The Artist and his Letters…. What person doesn’t feel an affinity with the life and work of...
View Articleon blackbirds, nests, and the garden
over the last week a few hours have been spent out in the garden, on some required ‘tidying-up tasks’, pruning back overgrown hedges and shrubs, fixing up fences (there is always more work to do, it...
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yesterday afternoon, while i was sat outside in the sunshine (after doing some gardening) i decided on impulse to make a short audio recording (on my mobile phone) of the myriad sounds of the birds...
View Articleon green, purple, and blackbirds
I finished and finally framed the painting Edgescape: Fenn earlier this week… it will be exhibited in the HWAT showcase exhibition for the duration of April 2010. [Edgescape: fenn, mixed media on...
View Articleone for the birds
i was quietly sitting in the garden one sunny afternoon and very soon spied the covert movements of a wood pigeon making a nest. this particular garden bird rustled in the top of the spindly bamboo...
View Articlelittle birds
little birds… I am still baffled by the mystery of how man has an independent life from woman, whereas I die when separated from my lover. While all these threads of desire and tenderness stifled me, I...
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