99.9% of 6 Gig full

Posted on June 2, 2019June 2, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Computer, Full memory, How do I delete photos?, Humour, Internet, Learning, Life, Random ideas, Too many posts?, Upgrade?, WordPress8 Comments

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I can use my images that are already uploaded but I can’t use any new pictures because I’ve reached my limit. Ideally I’d like to remove or delete some pictures to make more space but can’t see how to delete them off WordPress.

Maybe I should go through my earliest posts here and delete them? I mean who is going to be interested in my ramblings? I could upgrade my plan here. But then it means spending more. Should I just post to Facebook and leave here, after all it was going to be an art blog but it’s not really kept to that track, more of a muttering in the ear of a few hundred people, occasionally a flicker of recognition. So anyway, any recommendations?

Part of paradise

Posted on June 2, 2019June 2, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Etruria, Etruria festival, Garden, Ladybird Su, Life, Paradise, Pop up garden, Potteries, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

My friend Su (ladybirdsu) has a op up garden at the Etruria festival. Blue boxes are laced in a geometric grid which is based on Islamic tiles. The whole effect is calming with a small solar powered fountain at the centre. Set on slightly sloping ground the whole piece sits on an unused part of the grounds between the Trent and Mersey Canal and the Cauldon canal. It is by lock 39 of the Trent and Mersey if you are looking for a specific location. It’s good to see art and history coming together in an effort to integrate the two.

Other projects in the area include greening Stoke, where areas of the town have had wild flowers planted and Spode Rose garden which has been more formally planted. In an age if climate crisis I think we need more of this work.

I would post other photos but I appear to have reached a limit on WordPress. I will see what I can do.

Fine art degree shows

Posted on June 1, 2019June 1, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Degree shows, Fine Art, Life, Photos, Space on WordPress, Upgrade?Leave a comment

Went to see the fine art degree shows, for copyright reasons I haven’t taken photos. Overall impression? Interesting and different. I’m feeling old fashioned because I use paint and canvas.

I suppose things have changed a lot over the forty years since I started my degree.

By the way I appear to have used up all my memory space on here in the six months since the start of the year. I may have to change my plan to carry on posting photos here!

Bubbles

Posted on June 1, 2019June 1, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Bubbles, Life, Rainbow, Science, Shimmer, Surface tensionLeave a comment

Someone was blowing big bubbles at the festival, he let me have a go. I liked when they get really big and become unbalanced and long and thin. The method was to use a long peice of string dipped in bubble solution on two thin poles. Use the breeze to blow the bubble and open the poles apart to make a wider bubble. So much fun.

Canal festival at Etruria.

Posted on June 1, 2019June 1, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Barges, Boats, Bubbles, Canal, Etruria canal festival, Fun, Life, MusicLeave a comment

From bubbles and paradise gardens to bubbles and canal boats. Etruria festival whuch started today and continues tomorrow was abuzz with fun and frolics. There were human fruit machines and storytellers, lions and bonzai. The place was having fun.

You can go and see the flint mill in steam, buy candyfloss and look at the Sculpted Steel blacksmith. I’ve taken photos but not too many. Just enough to give an idea. Good to see Etruria artists and their stall. I’m a member but things have been a bit busy lately.

Anyway it’s on again tomorrow.

A few more gallery photos

Posted on May 31, 2019May 31, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic, Art, Exhibition, Gallery, Life, Paintings, Photos, Spode site8 Comments

Here are a few more photos of the exhibition courtesy of Sarah. They are all wide shots. I’m going to get some digital photos done of each one.

Only two more days and it will be down.

If cats could fly?

Posted on May 31, 2019May 31, 2019 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Flying cats, Fun, Humour, Life, Pegasus, Sci fi, Sky, Wings2 Comments

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If cats had wings would they chase birds in the sky? Would pigeons be safe? Would they swoop down like owls and catch voles from on high?

Horses have Pegasus, cats could be mythological, why not. They were worshipped as gods in Egypt, imagine them flying up to tree tops. Mioawing a Dawn chorus.

With genetic modification they could grow huge wings to allow them to hover like drones, waiting to see when their owners come home, spiralling down to perch on feeding stations.

Their coats could be patterned with spirals and chequer boards in blues and purples.

Why not?

Portrait with portrait

Posted on May 31, 2019May 31, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylics, Art, Blogging, Commission, Design, Life, Painting, Pastels, Portrait, Watercolour11 Comments

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The exhibition is going well and I had my photo taken with my portrait of my husband as a green man. It’s called my green man. I’m pleased with the composition.

What next? Once this is over I’ve booked to put a show up in another local gallery called the waiting room, in Longport, Stoke-on-Trent. That will be in September, not got the dates yet. I’m also going to do a couple of craft fairs in the next couple of months. It would be good to be commissioned to paint for people but I’m not sure how to break into that sort of work. I am happy to paint for people. Just contact me.

Rhododendrons are out.

Posted on May 30, 2019May 30, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Countryside, Dorothy Clive garden, Garden, Life, Photo, Plants, Rhododendrons, Rode hallLeave a comment

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This is an image from Rode Hall that I photographed a couple of weeks ago. As you can see the rhododendrons are in full bloom. These showy shrubs originally come from the far east, China I think? They are grown for their flowers which can come in a variety of colours.

They do spread though and can shade out native plants which is why they are sometimes drastically cut back in wooded areas, allowing light to penetrate the canopy of leaves.

I must visit the Dorothy Clive garden soon. They have a large and mixed collection in their quarry garden. They are in the countryside west of Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Fell over..

Posted on May 30, 2019May 30, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Age, Fall, Frightened, Garden, Health, Knee, Life, Middle aged, Moving plant pots, Scared, Shock2 Comments

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I was trying to help move a huge flower pot with an olive tree and a walnut tree growing out of it. My husband was pulling the pot and I tried to push.. He pulled me over! I crashed into some plants luckily not the concrete. Im glad he was there! I realised I was OK with only a slightly bashed knee. But I don’t have the strength to get up that I once had. I was flailing around on the floor, like the dying fly dance from the 70s or 80s. I managed to turn to my knees then he hauled me to my feet. My knee is a bit sore but it’s the shock and surprise, you feel yourself topple, everything goes sideways. Then it’s shock that you are on the ground. Last time was because a chair leg broke. Then I broke a rib so I count myself lucky today. Its scary enough when you are a child and fall over, when you’re a middle aged, unfit female it can be frightening. X

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