Lammas & Lughnasadh summer greetings

        this Gaelic festival marks the start of the harvest season,
traditionally celebrated on August 1st.
A time where the bounty of the land is acknowledged
and thanks are given to the deities
for the first fruits of the harvest


a spontaneous post of ideas, images & delights:
in no particular order
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in bed with Jeremy Deller
reading his marvellous
Art is Magic
a children’s book for adults
documenting his work in a beautifully
creative way

‘art is a way of staying engaged and
in love with the world…’
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and if you are as smitten as we are by Jeremy’s
sublime, collaborative instinctual work
you might enjoy his short film English Magic (14mns)
with his exhibition, presented at the British Pavilion Venice
Biennale 2013

and his interview with Veronica Simpson; he states in an article:
‘I’m not looking for the next thing.
I’m just following my nose and seeing where it takes me’
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what can we say but,
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song
a brilliant, poignant, poetic documentary (1hr 57mn)
available to buy on Amazon Prime
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visiting us on an artist’s date,
Pegi (5)makes work effortlessly,
inspiring us with her ability to be engaged in each moment:
here’s some of her collage – one of her favourite mediums

and her first observational drawing with us, in the studio

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Lilla spent time in Venice on a residency and continues
to find all things la Seranissima of great interest –
favourite books include Geoff Dyer’s wondrous
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
       
and
Mary McCarthy’s timeless, forensic, erudite observations
The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed 
(written 1959)
artists’ books are one of our loves…and collage, and film, and texts, and painting, and drawing…&…every thing……
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view from the studio’s back door

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some of us here like to fool around with apps
and see our vision reflected in the image
string arty…

urban skyscape inspires collage

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off cut off the cuff collage
 

desktop screen’s virtual imagery

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xperi mental

around about us…..

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guardian deity at the door of our summer retreat

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thank you for visiting
we hope you found
something resonant

with great gratitude
to our wisdom teacher
☸️Ziji Rinpoche☸️