Soothing Summer Solstice Salutations

we dedicate this post to
JennyWren
creatress mother wife parent grandmother
sister godmother cousin aunt niece
Honouring darling Jenny’s love & connection to nature,
the seasons, family, making, teaching,
ceremony, friendship, philosophy…
and her practice of Knowledge,
received from her guru, Prem Rawat
(aka Guru Maharaj-Ji)
Jenny’s open studio (in Kilcot, Glos. 5-13th July 2025)
is being organised in her honour by her daughter Rosi

Jennifer Mary Leigh 23.9.52 – 19.2.25

nonstick collage
feeling all out of kilter – ha, a perfect reflection

May & June bloom: the perfect time to pick flowers
in the urban wild /
from people’s garden….to roadside verges
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all ways fun to play with the app Wordle

…and sometimes what we have loved
since childhood still resonates, makes
the heart sing…the nature table

   
we admired it on her wall…..& were given it – a spontaneous gift,
with thanks to Colette

collage made for a friend’s first birthday

beautiful gifts: a painted stone from Jenny
& Thich Nhat Hanh’s calligraphic quote from Ellie
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naturally noticing what is around us…..

a rogue light-coloured leaf on the oak sapling….

a sycamore helicopter seed, stained with Indian ink
after being used for printing….


how wild is your garden? and vase concertina – works in progress…
inspired by artist Karen Stamper‘s playfull tutorials
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colour colour colour
is every where in contemporary cultures,
though it was not always thus:
sacred Tibetan Tangkas used minerals
that may have taken months to source,
and then another age to process
into workable pigments…


great gratitude for the infinite number
of teachers, guides, mentors & gurus
that accompany us through life

cultural picks for your delectation:

* documentary film directed by Anton Corbijn
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) on Netflix 1hr 41mn
album artwork designers of seminal vinyl covers from the 1970’s and on…

* Talk Art Russell Tovey & Robert Diament’s podcast

* Spotify has an excellent selection of audiobooks:
we are revisiting Wayne Dyer & Deepak Chopra’s work –
each of them ever-outside the world of cause and effect…
brilliant! un-reasonable!

* the exhibition guy: Art Gallery Explorer (Youtube channel)
personable critique of exhibitions, mainly in south east of England…
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work by young artists, friends of kitchen sink studio
by Willow
by Pegi

discovered, a hop and a skip from
where Lilla has lived for 36years:
a nature reserve, a river, herons, a lake….wow

thank you kindly for visiting

(a musical symbol for rest)
with great gratitude to
Ziji Rinpoche
wisdom teacher par excellence