Hand made trees

Posted on May 26, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Life, making, painted, Papier mache, penkhull mystery plays, staging, Story, Trees, WitchesLeave a comment

These are props we have previously made and used. These are bamboo and papier mache trees. We are going to repair them as they have been in storage for a few years. Part of the Penkhull Mystery Play this year is about two woodsmen who have been turned into trees by an evil witch. They want to be turned back after 20 years and need to get help from another witch to stop the first witch casting another spell on them. More to come….

Can’t wait for spring

Posted on February 4, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Falcon works, Gardening, painted, Plants, Potbank, project 2000, wooden planterLeave a comment

This is a potbank shaped planter I bought from a company called project 2000 and that I hand painted a couple of years ago. I varnished it with yatch varnish and it has stayed in good condition. It has a small space at the top and I will try and grow either geraniums or pelargoniums in the top. Or maybe nasturtiums later in the year. I want to start preparing the yard and garden. I can’t just ignore it but we might get a bit of snow later this week The design is based on a local pottery symbol nearby. I think it was called the falcon works.

Looking back

Posted on September 16, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Beautiful, Canal, Chimneys, Colourful, Etruria, painted, Pattern, Poem, Poetry, TowpathLeave a comment

Canal barges at Etruria

Dappled in the tree shade

Sparkling shimmers on the water

White bridge over canal

Snaking rudder stripes

Chimneys and canal roses.

Heat and sunlight.

Pattern by the towpath

Canalside spectacular view.

Peeling paint

Posted on May 29, 2022May 29, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Clouds, crystals, Imagination, Landscape, Life, Metal, painted, peeling, Photo, Planet, Sea2 Comments

What do you see? I see an archipelago of small islands in a deep blue sea. I think there are rocky shores and shallow waters around the islands.

Or it simply could be blue paint peeling off an old metal door. You can see the metal surface is made up of crystals, or perhaps its a decorative feature on the metal doors surface.

Or it could be strange clouds on a distant blue planet. Looking down from above or up at an azure sky.

Imagination is fun.

Face app?

Posted on July 17, 2021July 17, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Face, face app, Fun, Mask, Mystery play mask, old photo, painted, Papier mache, Poem, PoetryLeave a comment

I don’t need retouching

Thanks.

Or soft focus

Blending

Trimming down.

I am me

I wear my own mask

Mask

Posted on May 1, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue, Decorated, face covering, Face mask, Life, Mask, painted, Poem, Poetry, Sea3 Comments

Wear a mask they said

Blue is good, they said

I chose this one

With a sea theme on…

But cover your mouth

For when you breathe out

Don’t breathe the germs

That the air returns.

So I scrapped this mask

Got a blue one for the task

Made of papier-

Mache!

Mallaband-Brown

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