sweet samhain celebrations

SAMHAIN
31st October/1st November
Celtic end-of-harvest-&-summer /
beginning-of-winter festival
aka All Saints Day / All Hallows / Halloween

sharing automatism
(art related):
from kitchen sink studio
droodling – where drawing meets doodling
a highly mellow relaxing activity:
no thinking needed….
& the undermutter quietens, phew…
what a relief


noticing differently a lovely term
inspired by Anthony Abbagnano (breathwork)
& Rob Walker’s book the art of noticing
here follows a couple of slideshows
exploring this…

Lilla’s lived in this area of Bristol over the last 35 years
& loves to notice differently, keep things alive…
1mn 49s with soundtrack

……and a tiny vase, viewed in different ways

ah the soothing balm of nature
where we resonate with our own true nature
….we are made of the same stuff
(& are closely related, DNA-wise, to bananas!)
TREE LOVE


more pictures of things seen anew, round our way…
in the urban landscape of south Bristol





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so many talented creative friends….

beautiful pebble being from JennyWren

received with great

continuing developing our (art) practice:
Press Play was a marvellous year-long postgraduate course
with the inimitable artist educator Emma Gregory
one of the many valuable explorations was around conditions
that are conducive to our work –
here’s a mind map of these..
you may wish to explore
those most conducive to your own work


V I E W I N G  O P P O R T U N I T Y
the ever-inventive William Kentridge:
self-portrait as a coffee-pot

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more sketchbook love

a friend from upstairs comes down to join us,
& made this portrait of Lilla
she has recently started drawing with us in a large sketchbook,
looking across she remarked, nice colouring in Lilla !

& finally, from the 3 books by the bed series:


& thank you for visiting

we trust it has been of value
in some way to you