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Sunday, 31 March 2019
♥️♥️♥️ For all the strong mum's... may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them. I look back through my personal history and see a tower of strong women supporting each other to the beginning of time, I look forward and I see the strongest so far in my daughter's @bethanysrobinson ,& @elliegregor ♥️♥️♥️
Saturday, 30 March 2019
Friday, 29 March 2019
Saw my first bluebell today ๐๐๐ . . . Bluebell cast from a few years ago . I love this time of year ๐๐๐
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Lapwings and Hare.. The lapwing's call heralded of the start of Spring and many Easter customs are linked to it. Most birds eggs were eaten at Easter but the lapwing suffered most being a ground nesting bird, it became a vast commercial market, Queen Victoria favoured her plover eggs cooked in aspic. Within 20 years they had stripped the whole of the south of England as far as Lincolnshire. Nearing extinction in 1926 the introduction of the Lapwing Act officially stopped this practice although farming practices and habitat loss still drastically threaten them still. The Easter bunny was originally a Hare but it was so steeped in Pagan folklore that it was deemed 'unfitting' for Christian purposes. Hares, hide from predators by making a shallow indentation in the soil known as a form. Lapwings classically inhabit the same territories as hares and make a scrape of a nest on the ground. Lapwings were know to use a hare's form as a nest and so eggs where often found in a form and occasionally assumed to have been laid by the Hare
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Another March Hare ... this time in print a linocut with monoprint combination.
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Wednesday, 27 March 2019
As we approach easter i like to look up stories about where traditions come from ... so here is a thought about the hare. The Hare and the Lapwing The Easter bunny was originally a Hare but it was so steeped in Pagan folklore that it was deemed 'unfitting' for Christian purposes. Hares, hide from predators by making a shallow indentation in the soil known as a form. Lapwings classically inhabit the same territories as hares and make a scrape of a nest on the ground. Lapwings were know to use a hare's form as a nest and so eggs where often found in a form and occasionally assumed to have been laid by the Hare. . This small Hare original painting along with a few others on paper are over in my shop... there is also a 20% off if you use the code MADMARCH until the 31st March ๐
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Tuesday, 26 March 2019
Painting again but because I have been away from it for a while it's all a bit laboured! ๐ฃ
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Monday, 25 March 2019
Sunday, 24 March 2019
A proof for another raven today ... inspired by the Ted Hughes poem "the risen"
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Friday, 22 March 2019
Another little experimental print starlings being enveloped by pattern...
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Feeling grateful for the blue sky and the crow who wished me good morning as he flew by just now.... have a fabulous Friday!
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Thursday, 21 March 2019
Wednesday, 20 March 2019
A single oystercatcher and a big yellow sun... for the equinox more light than dark now... woohoo!
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Tuesday, 19 March 2019
Sketching ideas for a some paintings I have been thinking about for a while...
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Saturday, 16 March 2019
Friday, 15 March 2019
It's been very grey here in cornwall so I hope to bring a little brightness with this over-printed starling. . . . . . #wip #illustration #contemporaryprintmaking #humananimalrelationship #ukprintmakers #get_imprinted #contemporaryprintmaking #printmakingtoday #creativeinspiration #happyaccident #patterndesign #patternmaking #repeatpattern #printandpattern #sketchbook #inthestudio #collageart #creativityandplay #camoflage
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Monday, 11 March 2019
Whilst reading about Bran and Branwen in the mabinogion I remembered that Branwen trained a sterling to help her ...
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Saturday, 9 March 2019
For a slightly differnt, a more real world observation of Crows this poem by Mary Oliver is also one of my favourites... Crows From a single grain they have multiplied. When you look in the eyes of one you have seen them all. At the edges of highways they pick at limp things. They are anything but refined. Or they fly out over the corn like pellets of black fire, like overlords. (Crow is crow, you say. What else is there to say? Drive down any road, take a train or an airplane across the world, leave your old life behind, die and be born again— wherever you arrive they’ll be there first, glossy and rowdy and indistinguishable. The deep muscle of the world
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Friday, 8 March 2019
Tuesday, 5 March 2019
Gool Peran Lowen! Happy St Piran’s Day! "The heathen Irish tied him to a mill-stone, rolled it over the edge of a cliff into a stormy sea, which immediately became calm, and the saint floated safely over the water to land upon the sandy beach of Perranzabuloe in Cornwall. His first disciples are said to have been a badger, a fox and a bear" "He landed in Cornwall, and there established himself as a hermit. His sanctity and his austerity won for him the veneration of all around, and the gift of miracles, with which he was favoured, brought many to seek his charitable aid. He was joined at Perranzabuloe by many of his Christian converts and together they founded the Abbey of Lanpiran, with Piran as abbot. St Piran 'rediscovered' tin-smelting (tin had been smelted in Cornwall since before the Romans' arrival, but the methods had since been lost) when his black hearthstone, which was evidently a slab of tin-bearing ore, had the tin smelt out of it and rise to the top in the form of a white cross, thus the image on the flag"
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Monday, 4 March 2019
Saturday, 2 March 2019
Some days are just a bit like this! All is well...today but I have felt like this many times. I am working on ideas for some paintings but this from a short narrative that I created when doing my MA is really the starting point..together with Mental Health awareness and self care.
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Friday, 1 March 2019
Dydd Gลตyl Dewi Hapus” “Happy St. David’s Day” My interest in St david began with the dove on his shoulder… maybe not surprisingly The most famous miracle associated with St David took place when he was preaching to a large crowd in Llanddewi Brefi. When people complained that they could not hear him, the ground on which he stood rose up to form a hill. A white dove settled on his shoulder. Legend states he was the son of Sant, King of Ceredigion and a nun called Nonnita. He was born more than 15 centuries ago on the Pembrokeshire cliffs during a ‘fierce storm’. He became a monk at a young age and founded a monastery where St David's Bishop's Palace and the Cathedral are now built. He was made an archbishop later in life and died on March 1, 589 AD when he was 100 years old.. His final words to the community of monks were: "Brothers be ye constant. The yokewhich with single mind ye have taken, bear ye to the end; and whatsoever ye have seen with me and heard, keep and fulfil." . .#anthrozoology #stdavidsday
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