Oak man

Posted on April 22, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Dorothy Clive garden, Fun, Garden, Green man, Life, Oak man, Plant sale, Plants, StaffordshireLeave a comment

I’m a bit disappointed with my phones camera. Although this image of an oak green man came out OK three other photos of similar green men didn’t register. I think it’s because I have too many photos saved and as most of them are MB not KB they are too large as files so they take up too much space.

This oak man was for sale at the Dorothy Clive garden near Woore, Staffordshire. It was rammed with people, there was a great plant sale on, but it was crowded with hundreds of people. We struggled to get a seat and had a quick lunch. I usually go there to see the rhododendrons in flower but it’s a couple of weeks before they will be out in the quarry garden. In the meantime they had a massive plant sale with stalls so we came home with about 15 varied and interesting plants. Glad to be home to get a rest.

Wallflowers and dianthus

Posted on April 21, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Environment, Gardening, Life, Plants, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Urban greeningLeave a comment

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I shared this a few days ago as part of a group of photos but I came back to it because I loved the vibrant colours. It goes with my mood today. Gold wallflowers and pink dianthus I think are the types of flowers.

An artist at Spode planted and looks after this area just outside the spode studios. They always cheer me up when I go in. To see them in the middle of industrial delapidation lifts my spirits.

On the road that passes the site there was a project called greening Stoke where various shop fronts and bits of derelict land were planted up with wild flowers. They are still growing. Good to see green in the urban landscape.

Whirlpool galaxy drawing

Posted on April 21, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Atoms, Digital drawing, Digital sketch, Earth, Galaxy, Infinity, Life, Molecules, Reflections, Science, Universe2 Comments

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This took a few hours to draw on the old sketchfu website. I do love astronomy. This is not accurate, it couldn’t be with the limited tools that were on the website but it was fun to try and get a reasonable representation of it. Space is so infinitely beautiful. It makes me realise how tiny I am, how small our planet and solar system are in relationship to the mass of stars in a galaxy and the smallness of galaxies in relation to the infinity of the universe.

How important we think we are, we have so much on this world that we are using up. We are big in comparison with insects and smaller still bacteria. Then even smaller viruses. The smallest things, molecules, Atoms and sub atomic particles.

Apparently we are halfway on the scale of size in the universe. Halfway between the infinitely massive and the incredibly tiny. Perhaps in realising this we can see we are not very important after all. I think we should take more care to preserve our tiny/huge planet so that humankind can continue to survive and flourish.

Etruria Artists

Posted on April 20, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Easter Sunday fun, Etruria, Etruria Artists, Etruria Industrial museum, Exhibition, Hands on clay, Life, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

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This group I’m in is starting up again this week. At the moment I haven’t the time to get involved. But in a couple of weeks I might be able to join in again. I’m the meantime if you live in Stoke you might want to give it a look this weekend. Just up the canal from Etruria industrial museum by Summit lock on the trent and merdy canal. I think there is an exhibition on. There will also be the chance to do some hands on clay art work.

Exhibition at centre space.

Posted on April 20, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Centre space, Colours, Photo collage, Photography, Spode visitor centre, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

I had the pleasure of meeting an artist and photographer called Cyril Tilstone at his exhibition at Centre Space tonight. It is based at the Spode heritage visitors centre at spode site, Eleanora Street, Stoke-on-Trent. It started tonight and is on for a month.

His images are photo collages of bottle ovens or historic buildings like cherished chimneys at Longport. With interesting and intruiging compositions including things like chimney pots, doves, paintings by Joshua Reynolds and even marbles. The images are colourful and show the industrial history of Stoke-on-Trent in a new way. There are time travelling Dr Who characters dotted about. This is a gentle and gently humorous look at Stoke-on-Trent past and present.

I would recommend it to you.

Portrait of my hubby

Posted on April 20, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Cartoon, Doodle, Fun, Humour, Life, Portrait, Sketch, Steamed up mirrorLeave a comment

sometimes a sketch turns out to be a cartoon instead and vice versa. In this case I was just going to draw a smiley face but it turned out to be more of the real thing. I won’t put up a comparison photo but it does look a bit like him!

Happy Easter everyone.

Chimney

Posted on April 18, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artists studios, Eleanora st, Photo, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

Chimney from a pottery kiln. The rest of the building was demolished but thus was left. Like the remains of a rocket due to fly to the moon, or a set dressing for a Sci-fi.

Outside the artists studios at Spode Site, Eleanora Street, Stoke-on-Trent. Staffordshire.

Jewellery

Posted on April 18, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Eleanora st, Jewellery, Makers market, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Stoke-upon-Trent2 Comments

Glass cabochons with wire weave surrounds. These will be for sale at the Spring Makers Market at the potbank Hotel, Spode site, Eleanora st, Stoke-on-Trent. I will also be selling small and medium size paintings..

Peeling paint

Posted on April 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Life, Paint peeling, Photography, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Stoke-upon-TrentLeave a comment

I’m thinking of painting something like this. It’s a window in one of the buildings at spode. Goodness knows what the paint is made of. It is just so old. The wood looks dry and decaying. The putty holding the glass in is probably made with lead. Surprisingly the window looks quite clean and the building opposite is reflected in it. Capturing the detail will be a challenge.

Druid revisited

Posted on April 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Druid, Green man, Growth, Leaves, Life, Painting, Spring2 Comments

I’ve done some more to this acrylic on canvas. I have added more definition around the leaves but tried to leave some of the subtlety of colour in other places. It has some sparkle in the paints to give it a slightly frosted appearance as if leaves have piled up, but the face of the druid is emerging from it.

About 16″ by 12″ this is one of my more abstract pieces based on the green man theme.

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