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14.10.12
acrylics on textured card In total acceptance almost everything becomes a revelation. ~ Frederick Sommer
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15.10.12
shibori on hand-woven ramie cloth, organic indigo dye, bamboo, cotton cord song for Shindo-sensei Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and the student are located in the same...
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16.10.12
stained and distressed canvas, acrylic paints, market basket fragment, sea shells, linen thread one Italian summer … Art’s a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a...
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17.10.12
painted silk Habotai, textured card, cotton mosquito netting Only a single line is needed to discover who is doing what. ~ Paul Reps
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18.10.12
painted silk Habotai, textured card, acrylic paint, fragment of steel gauze The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. ~ Stephen...
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19.10.12 + catching up
[I've been traveling in regional Queensland and discovered that the internet connection urbanites take for granted isn't always easily accessible. Or that if it exists at all, the speeds are...
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20.10.12
dip-dyed handmade washi, graphite, drawing, acrylic paint, stitching, textured card related: 12.10.12 Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird – that’s easy. What’s hard is...
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21.10.12
light-reflective acrylic paints, textured canvas, breath-strokes breathscribe series Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath. ~ Kabir
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23.10.12
acrylic on textured board, oyster-bed netting, slate roof-tile The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation. And the true creator...
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24.10.12
images of personal work cut into strips, acetate, off-loom weaving, stitching Antidote for pride and preciousness re one’s work: Pick up scissors or craft knife. Cut, weave, rip, stitch … P-L-A-Y Just...
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25.10.12
acrylics on textured canvas The scariest moment is always just before you start. ~ Stephen King
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26.10.12
wooden slab, sawdust, iron staple, wood, nails, text fragments, cement, pva glue, acrylic paints I came to paint the shutters The mysterious wonder of life is that you just never know where anything is...
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27.10.12 + the nitty-gritty
acrylic on canvas Once a spark of creativity illumines you, the act of creating becomes a journey into the uncharted. It requires a kind of willing surrender, to the unknown, that can be both daunting...
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28.10.12
recycled cardboard boxes, acrylic paint, Japanese washi, found object, sealing wax, linen thread Forget your perfect offering there is a crack in everything that’s how the light gets in. ~ Leonard Cohen
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29.10.12
metallic automotive paint, acrylics, textured canvas, sanding, staining Creativity is subtraction. ~ Austin Kleon Quote sourced from Maria Popova’s wondrous exp.lore.com
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30.10.12
acrylic on textured canvas It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. ~ Paul Cezanne empty canvas : wondering mind
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31.10.12
folded and buried khadi papers, powdered paint flakes from walls of village huts, antique woven and embroidered textile fragments, chalk, whitewash, mud stains, thorns, mosquito netting, cowrie shells,...
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curiosity and wonderment
If you asked me to choose a couple of keywords to sum up the dynamic that drives my creative practice, I’d pick these two: curiosity and wonderment When, on the first day of August, I dreamed up the...
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blessed are the painters of the sublime light
Deborah Barlow: O R B I L I N I A JMW Turner: TURNER FROM THE TATE Peridawna, detail Orbilinia is a series of abstract paintings that explores the nature of otherworldliness. Rarefied, meditative and...
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